Description
Description
SAIC is seeking a Senior System-VDI Engineer that is passionate about craftsmanship, teamwork, and delivering user capability to support the Air Force weather community on the Technology Application Development & Sustainment (TADS) contract located at the Offutt, AFB in Nebraska.
The Senior System - VDI Engineer will support all aspects of VMware virtualization; configuration, implementation, management of servers in virtualized environment, and VDI implementations. The candidate also should have a foundation in Windows and network management skills. This position requires a mixture of engineering, operations, hands-on technical and support skills. Qualified candidates should have excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills. The individual will work closely with technical leads, infrastructure and operations teams and other cross-department teams to evaluate business needs and provide end-to-end technical solutions and manage, operate, monitor, audit, secure server Virtualization assets within an empowered, cross-functional team.
Successful candidates will demonstrate the following characteristics:
- Growth Mindset
- Self-Starter
- Servant Leadership
- Grit
Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Assurance, or Cyber Security and nine (9) + years of applicable experience
- Must have the ability to install and configure vCenter Server.
- Must be able to work with ESXi cluster servers.
- Must have experience monitoring the health of VMs operating in various data centers.
- Experience with VMware Horizon View, VMware vCenter, vSphere Client and Web Client, VMware Workstation, managing VMware Horizon user profiles and understanding VMware's integration with complex storage technologies.
- Demonstrated experience in all aspects of enterprise Windows environment operations and maintenance (O&M) and engineering.
- Experience with performing root cause analysis, risk identification, and risk mitigation
- Demonstrated experience in a fast tempo ITSM support environment.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies (Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean, Theory of Constraints)
- Experience with configuration management tools (Git, Mercurial, ...)
- Must be a US Citizen and must be able to obtain a Secret clearance
Preferred Qualifications:
- CompTIA Security+, Network+, CSSLP, or equivalent
- VMware certification VCP/VCAP and/or VDI Certification.
- Active Secret Clearance
- CISSP
- Familiarity with 557th Weather Wing
- Familiarity with meteorological data formats like METAR, GriB, GriB2, and NetCDF
- Familiarity with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery concepts and enabling tools such as Jenkins, Maven, and Ansible
- Familiarity with service based standards such as REST and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Services (OWS)
- Testing tools (e.g. Junit, Selenium, jMeter)
- Code quality tools (e.g. Sonar, Cast)
- Static scanning (e.g. Fortify)
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.
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