Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Secret required

GD Information Technology • Chantilly, VA

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

GDIT is seeking a Senior Infras t ructure Engineer to Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Global Video Services (GVS) business area to enable the integration of video services into the Department of Defense. This position is a combination of remote (20%) and onsite (80%) support in Fort Meade, MD or Chantilly, VA. NOTE : This position is contingent upon contract award. Projected award date is early January. MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will serve as technology expert. As Infrastructure Engineer you will oversee the design, documentation, implementation and management of IT services for a cloud deployed capability. You will manage highly available and secure services between cloud deployed software and cloud collaboration services. You will be responsible for setting up and/or maintaining development lab environments that mirror production systems. Design & Implementation: Designs cloud infrastructure, virtual private cloud, virtual private network, relational database services, auto-scaling, and compute resources to meet customer requirements. Lab Environment: Responsible for setting up and maintaining development lab environments that mirror production systems, ensuring they are current with industry standards. Guidance & Documentation: Provides guidance on installation, configuration, and maintenance of virtual hosts, operating systems, applications, and databases. Develops and presents IT infrastructure standard operating procedures to senior management. Availability & Security: Maintains ownership of high availability, high-security IT operations. Reviews and approves periodic status updates on scheduled maintenance and upgrades of all infrastructure systems. Troubleshooting: Troubleshoots operating systems, network, storage, identity, virtualization, software, and application issues to identify bottlenecks in operations and provides recommendations for optimum performance and continuity of critical systems. Collaboration & Standards: Collaborates with enterprise architecture teams and other stakeholders to determine enterprise tools, technologies, and processes. Establishes corporate cloud computing architecture policies and standards in compliance with NIST, FISMA, FIPS, OMB, and FedRAMP.

Requirements

• Security clearance level: Active DoD Secret
• Certification: IAT Level II certification (i.e. Security+ CE or equivalent)
• Education: Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent field
• Experience: 8 + years of related experience
• Technical skills: Prior DoD experience is required, DISA experience is a plus
• Experience with DoD Cloud Environments (IL4/IL5/IL6), including MS Office 365, and classified and unclassified networks
• Experience designing and implementing Azure cloud resources, database services, auto scaling, and automation to meet customers’ requirements.
• Expertise in implementing Azure architectures, ideally for DoD customers, including the following: ---- Azure Active Directory ---- ADFS ---- Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings ---- Windows Server ---- Azure Networking ---- Implementing DoD security guidance for above Identity and directory services integration and troubleshooting Windows/Linux OS hardening/patching/administration/configuration/automation per DISA STIG Guidelines.
• Collaboration on configuration changes using a distributed revision control system (i.e., Git).
• Experience with Agile/SCRUM software development management methods
• Location - Hybrid - reporting onsite in either Chantilly, VA or Ft. Meade, MD several days a week.
• US Citizenship Required: Yes

Responsibilities

• Designs cloud infrastructure, virtual private cloud, virtual private network, relational database services, auto-scaling, and compute resources to meet customer requirements.
• Responsible for setting up and maintaining development lab environments that mirror production systems, ensuring they are current with industry standards.
• Provides guidance on installation, configuration, and maintenance of virtual hosts, operating systems, applications, and databases.
• Develops and presents IT infrastructure standard operating procedures to senior management.
• Maintains ownership of high availability, high-security IT operations.
• Reviews and approves periodic status updates on scheduled maintenance and upgrades of all infrastructure systems.
• Troubleshoots operating systems, network, storage, identity, virtualization, software, and application issues to identify bottlenecks in operations and provides recommendations for optimum performance and continuity of critical systems.
• Collaborates with enterprise architecture teams and other stakeholders to determine enterprise tools, technologies, and processes.
• Establishes corporate cloud computing architecture policies and standards in compliance with NIST, FISMA, FIPS, OMB, and FedRAMP.

Benefits

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
• Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees