Data Center Engineer (VDI) - job 1 of 3

Responsibilities

Be a part of our exciting team supporting a robust, world-wide communications network, providing office automation packages; document and information management tools; and collaboration, voice, and video tools in a secure, flexible, distributed architecture supporting a classified DoD IT system. Peraton is seeking a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) - Data Center Engineer to provide infrastructure engineering for periodic data center refresh and/or new data center technologies, including future cloud capabilities.

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Design, deliver, and optimize Infrastructure Services to improve security, availability, performance, and resource utilization in the data centers
• Review current infrastructures, architectures, designs, and operations to identify potential improvements
• Analyze, refine, and document the requirements for transition from legacy hardware into modern data center infrastructure environment
• Design and build host & tenant environment with security hardened configuration for infrastructure services and design ongoing maintenance practices and procedures for infrastructure hosted service patching and updates
• Design virtual Infrastructure services to maximize available capacity of physical compute, storage, and network hardware resources
• Document security, configuration, and performance benchmarks of Infrastructure Services
• Design production infrastructure services that support highly available, private cloud, active-active data center operations, within the constraints of the environment
• Design practices, procedures, Automation and Orchestration to provision, de-provision, and entitle Compute, Storage, and Network resources
• Identify infrastructure security-relevant actions, tests, and key performance indicators for Information Dashboard and Reporting
• Design Service Catalog Items for Infrastructure Services for business and IT technical services
• Provides advanced technical support in the research, experimentation, business analysis and use of systems technology including architecture, integration capabilities and database management.
• Develops the end-to-end vision and the logical design that translates into physical databases, and how the data will flow through the successive stages involved.
• Knowledgeable and practices a wider range of data administration skills, often in a Business Process Reengineering context.
• Participates in strategic data planning, including development and implementation of DA policies, standards, and procedures.
• Understands data from the perspective of data processing and in the context of different life-cycle phases.
• Activities may include data quality engineering, metadata consolidation and integration, metamodel development and maintenance, repository management, data warehouse design and data mining, data security administration, and formulation of enterprise-specific data metrics.

Qualifications

Required:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years of experience with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years of experience with PhD of experience; additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of degree.
• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
• Experience in Infrastructure/Datacenter engineering and integration for both physical and virtual infrastructure hosting one or more Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Solaris, UNIX, and/or AIX systems.
• Experience in VMware vCloud Enterprise Suite and hybrid cloud with multiple classified Government clouds.
• Must have a current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III certification.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure and hybrid-cloud infrastructures such as Azure Stack Hub.

Desired:

• Professional-level Linux, VMware, Network, Storage, or Cloud certifications desired.
• ITIL Foundations certification desired.

• Desired experience:

  • Automation and Infrastructure as Code utilizing platforms such Ansible and Terraform 
  • Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS) for virtualized application and remote desktop delivery
  • Integrating and managing applications and services with Microsoft Active Directory
  • Scripting utilizing Powershell

Benefits:

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and participation in an attractive bonus plan.

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.