Senior Systems Engineer - Infrastructure - Active Top Secret Clearance

Riptide Technology is hiring a Senior Systems Engineer - Infrastructure for a new, five-year contract award to support our government customer based in Suitland, MD. This is an excellent career opportunity with unlimited growth potential. 
The Senior Systems Engineer- Infrastructure shall serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the technologies- systems, applications, and services-which make up the activity's IT hosting platforms. Specifically, the Senior Systems Engineer- Infrastructure shall be responsible for a variety of engineering and operational tasking associated with all storage, virtualization (appliances, servers, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), etc., and data protection (backups, replication, disaster recovery, etc.) technologies across multiple IT systems in support of the activity's information system. The Senior Systems Engineer shall directly support and oversee all Infrastructure team operations and maintenance (O&M) tasking of deployed operational solutions backed by Citrix, Microsoft, NetApp, and VMware. When issues, incidents, and/or problems arise, the Senior Systems Engineer shall support and oversee the Infrastructure team's troubleshooting and problem resolution effort, including Root Cause Analysis (RCA). The Senior Systems Engineer shall ensure the Infrastructure team as a whole produce and maintain documentation of the Infrastructure system(s), sub-system(s), and component(s) in the activity's IT hosting portfolio, including as-built documentation, capacity/performance plans, as well as all other areas of server system life cycle planning.The Senior Systems Engineer shall also work directly with the activity's IT Architecture and Engineering (A&E) team to consistently explore, investigate, research, analyze, and assess new technologies to modernize and improve upon existing Infrastructure solutions. New solutions shall be proposed to the Government with a proof of concept for consideration by the Configuration Control Board.

Qualifications:

• Security Clearance: This position will require U.S. citizenship and an active DoD TS/SCI clearance, with a CI Poly preferred. The ability to obtain a CI poly is required.
• Shall have 7 or more years of proven hands-on experience engineering, implementing, and providing O&M support for globally dispersed enterprise-level NetApp storage systems (AltaVault, ONTAP, StorageGRID, etc.) providing enterprise storage services including Block (iSCSJ) and File (CIFS, NFS) level storage and data protection (disaster recovery, migration, replication, snapshots, etc.) to a variety of end-point consumers (desktops, servers, hypervisors, etc.).
• Shall have 7 or more years of proven hands-on experience engineering, implementing, and providing O&M support for globally dispersed enterprise-level VMware virtualization systems providing virtualization capabilities such as Guest desktop and server virtualization.
• Shall have 5 or more years of experience designing, engineering, implementing, and maintaining solutions in secure processing environments which must adhere to U.S. Government Information Assurance and Security standards such as the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).
• Demonstrated experience monitoring and assessing virtualization and storage infrastructure systems and solutions proactively for performance degradation and tuning and optimization opportunities.
• Demonstrated experience leading, directing, and evaluating task execution and performance exercising latitude and independence of globally dispersed teams to successfully meet team objectives, goals, and deadlines as expected.
• Shall meet the minimum credential requirements for a Cyber IT/Cybersecurity Workforce (CSWF) position as defined in Section 6, Table 3.

Desired Qualifications:

• Strongly desired to be NetApp certified in NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer (NCIE) Data Protection Specialist (DCP) and NCIE - SAN Specialist, ONTAP.
• Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE): Core Infrastructure
• Strongly desired to be certified in an enterprise-level virtualization vendor, such as Microsoft, or VMware.
• Strong understanding of the different physical storage system configuration options (compute, networking, disk shelf, disk drive type, disk drive speed, etc.), their recommended use cases, as well as general best practices for achieving optimal and efficient storage solutions, especially for high-performing consumers.
• Strong understanding of tiered storage system configurations, their recommended use cases, and general best practices for providing the right level of storage service to the requesting consumer.
• Strong understanding of virtualization hypervisor offerings from Microsoft, and VMware and how to efficiently deploy, configure, secure, and operate them to provide optimal virtualization-based hosting services to the enterprise.
• Strong understanding of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) technologies and their capabilities to offer scalable converged compute and storage for enterprise-level virtual workloads.
• Strong understanding of data protection technologies, such as those offered by NetApp to effectively backup, snapshot, replication, archive, and restore all required tiers of storage within pre-defined Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs).
• Demonstrated experience working with on-premises cloud-based Simple Storage Service (S3) solutions to provide enterprise-level unstructured data at scale for various use cases such as data archiving and long-term online backups across globally dispersed data centers.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging Microsoft PowerShell or Python for the purposes of automating and orchestrating routine, as well as complex, administrative and operational tasking.
• Working knowledge of Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) technologies, concepts, and approaches to offering enterprise-level IT services for production business and mission critical workloads.
• Familiarity with Citrix-based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) systems, applications, and services such as Virtual Apps and Desktops (formerly XenDesktop) and Application Delivery Controller (ADC) (formerly NetScaler) to offer VDI and Application presentations via a centralized Hosting platform.
• Familiarity with basic Networking troubleshooting concepts and approaches.

Required Education, Training OR Certification

• Education
• BS degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, or Computer Science, from an ABET accredited or CAE designated institution
• - OR - Training
• NEC 736A Global and Command Control System-Maritime 4.X (GCCS-M 4.X) System Administrator
• NEC 737A Naval Tactical Command Support System (NTCSS) II Manager
• NEC 738A Global Command and Control System-Maritime (GCCS-M) (Force Level 4.1) Increment 2 System Administrator
• NEC 739A Global Command and Control System-Maritime 4.0.3 (GCCS-M 4.0.3) System Administrator
• NEC 746A Information Systems Administrator
• NEC H09A CANES AN/USQ-208(V) System Administrator/Maintainer
• NEC T02A AN/BYG-1 (V) TI04 Combat Control Maintenance Technician
• NEC T04A SSGN Tactical Tomahawk Weapon System (TTWCS) Maintenance Technician
• - OR Certification
• CompTIA Security+ CE
• GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC)
• Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)

Riptide Technology, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer ensuring no employee or prospective employee will be discriminated against based on race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or marital status with regards to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion or rehiring.