Position Title: Network Virtualization Engineer
Location: Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado Springs, CO
Relocation Assistance: None available at this time
Remote/Telework: No - Not available for this position
Clearance Required: DoD Secret preferred
Work Schedule: Day shift - Occasional off shift, extended or weekend support may be required
Core duty hours are 0900 - 1500 hours with flexibility to arrive earlier/later Monday - Friday
Travel: Up to 10% of the time - Occasional local travel may be required to support off-site customers and projects
Description of Duties:The
Network Virtualization Engineer supports the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions (IRES) contract.
The candidate will:
- Serve as a Network Virtualization Engineer and Developer supporting network build out and deployments to the C2BMC Test Facility as necessary to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA)
- Work on complex assignments and perform a wide range of VMware system administration activities with little to no direct supervision
- Provide root-cause analysis for recurring or critical problems
- Work closely with a team of system administrators, network engineers, and cybersecurity administrators to maintain a high-quality test environment for the Government customer
- Perform vulnerability remediation and mitigations to reduce cybersecurity risks and ensure DoD compliance
- Conduct daily system monitoring, system backup and restoral, and application upgrades to ensure optimal and continuous system operations
- Document necessary system changes and actions in appropriate systems of record to ensure historical data is captured per customer and mission requirements
- Advise Government customer on system status, optimization and improvement efforts in accordance with program objectives and design baselines as needed
- Assist system administration team with the deployment of new virtual machines
- Perform administration of virtualization environments to include troubleshooting, break/fix activities, the patching and remediation of servers, and system audit log reviews as needed
- Have good written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated experience briefing customers and management
The successful candidate will:
- Have a strong understanding of troubleshooting and configuration of VMware to include protocols and switching, best-practice configurations, connectivity, and networking concepts
Minimum Qualifications:- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Must have or obtain, an active DoD Secret Security Clearance
- Must have 10 or more years of general (full-time) work experience (may be reduced with completion of advanced education)
- Must have 7 or more years of directly related experience
- Must have 1 or more years of experience working in a management or leadership role
- Must have experience in Internet Protocols (e.g. DNS, HTTP, SMTP, SSL); firewall configuration and troubleshooting; multiple network types of telecommunications infrastructures
- Must be an effective communicator with excellent writing and presentation skills using Microsoft PowerPoint and Visio drawing tools
- Must be able to work collaboratively in a team environment with other highly motivated network engineers as well as independently on large field projects
- Must have a deep understanding of Foundational VCF Infrastructure including Virtualization (vSphere), Networking (NSX) and Storage (vSAN)
- Must be able to use SDDC Manager to patch, upgrade and provide overall system maintenance
- Must have a fundamental understanding of how traffic flows through logical routers with the ability to implement these concepts in an NSX environment
- Must be able to configure distributed stateful firewalling, NAT, load balancing and micro segmentation using NSX
- Must have experience with the design, installation, upgrading and migration of storage using VMware vSAN
- Must be able to migrate virtual machines and workloads from deprecated versions of vSphere to VMware Cloud Foundation
- Must have a current DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification (Security+ CE, CySA, etc.) or higher
Desired Qualifications:- Have a demonstrated understanding of the project management lifecycle and related processes
- Have experience with PIM, L2 and L3 multicast and type I encryption devices
- Have experience with VXLAN, Juniper Apstra, VMware Aria and RHEL Ansible
- Have experience with HPE server products
- Have experience creating and configuring virtual distributed switches
- Have a VMware Certified Technical Associate - Data Center Virtualization (VCTA), VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV), VCAP Design, VCAP Deploy or VCDX-DCV Certification
- Have knowledge of Missile Defense, DoD communications systems and MDIOC operations
- Have a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) or Juniper Networks Certified Associate (JNCIA) certification
- Have experience with network monitoring
- Have experience with Python or PowerShell programming and scripting
- Have a degree in an IT or Engineering related discipline
- Have an understanding of various development life cycles such as the Systems Engineering life cycle (SELC), ITIL, SDLC, etc.
Compensation:Salary Range: $100,000 - $125,000 annually. Final compensation is based on experience, education, and directly relevant certifications.
Application Instructions:- Resumes must be submitted in month/year format with clearance level clearly listed to be considered.
- Candidates must be fully truthful in their application and resume. Dishonesty, omission of required information, or misrepresentation may result in disqualification.
- Only U.S. citizens with an active DoD Secret security clearance or the ability to obtain an interim clearance within 3 months will be considered.
- Applications are reviewed for compliance prior to technical qualification. Submissions that do not meet the stated requirements or instructions will not be reviewed.
