Systems Engineer (MUST HAVE DoD TS)

Sandoval Technology Solutions

• $95K — $115K *
San Antonio, TX 78228In-Person
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 4 years overall experience
  • At least 3 years of specialized experience in systems administration
  • Hands-on experience with large-scale computer systems and multi-server networks
  • Bachelor's degree in relevant fields or equivalent experience
  • One DoD IAT Level II certification required
  • Extensive experience with VMware environments
  • Ability to work in high-security environments with TS/SCI clearance

Responsibilities

  • Administer and optimize large-scale computer systems
  • Configure and manage VMware environments from the ground up
  • Integrate servers with enterprise SAN infrastructure
  • Perform server migrations between platforms with minimal downtime
  • Design and evaluate systems for complex enterprise environments

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • Retirement plan options
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Support for certifications and training
Full Job Description
  • Position: Systems Engineer
  • Location: National Military Command Center (NMCC), Pentagon
  • Work Location: 100% onsite
  • Hours: Monday Friday, core hours between 6:00 AM 4:00 PM
  • Citizenship: Must be a U.S. Citizen
  • Required Security Clearance: TS/SCI
Required Qualifications
Experience
  • Minimum of 4 years of overall experience.
  • At least 3 years of specialized experience administering computer systems.
  • Experience operating or supporting:
    • Large-scale computer systems
    • Multi-server local area networks
    • Client/server environments
  • Experience with:
    • Systems administration
    • Systems engineering
    • Systems architecture
    • Systems integration
    • Hardware/software configuration management
    • System optimization
    • Resource utilization
    • Capacity analysis and planning
    • Server/data migrations
    • Technology refreshes
    • System upgrades
    • Troubleshooting
    • Requirements management
Education
  • Bachelor's degree in:
    • Computer Science / Computer Systems
    • Information Systems / Information Technology
    • Engineering / Engineering Technology
    • Software Engineering / Programming
    • Management
    • Natural Sciences
    • Social Sciences
    • Mathematics
    • Business / Finance
    • Related discipline
Education / Experience Substitution
  • Master's degree in a related discipline plus:
    • 3 years general experience
    • At least 2 years specialized experience

OR
  • No degree plus:
    • 8 years general experience
    • At least 6 years specialized experience
Required Certification
  • Must possess at least one DoD IAT Level II certification, including:
    • Security+ CE
    • CCNA Security
    • CySA+
    • GICSP
    • GSEC
    • CND
    • SSCP
VMware / Virtualization
  • Extensive hands-on experience building and managing VMware environments.
  • Extensive experience with:
    • VMware ESXi
    • VMware vSphere 7.x / 8.x
    • VMware vCenter
    • VMware clusters
  • Experience building VMware environments from the ground up.
  • Experience configuring:
    • VMware High Availability (HA)
    • Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)
    • Host networking
    • Virtual switches
    • Distributed switches
    • Datastores
    • Cluster resources
  • Experience implementing and managing enterprise VMware deployments.
  • Experience supporting VMware clusters across multi-server enterprise networks.
Dell Server Infrastructure
  • Hands-on experience deploying Dell PowerEdge R770 servers.
  • Experience with:
    • Server racking
    • Power cabling
    • Network cabling
    • Initial server configuration
    • Bare-metal deployment
    • ESXi hypervisor installation and configuration
SAN / Enterprise Storage
  • Experience integrating servers with Dell PowerVault ME5 Series SAN storage arrays or comparable enterprise SAN infrastructure.
  • Experience with:
    • Fiber-optic storage connectivity
    • Direct-Attach Copper (DAC)
    • Isolated backend storage fabrics
    • Block-level shared storage
    • iSCSI
    • Dedicated storage VLANs
    • Storage multipathing
    • Redundant storage paths
    • Jumbo Frames
    • MTU 9000
    • VMware datastores
    • Shared storage architectures
  • Ability to design and maintain resilient host-to-array connectivity.
  • Experience isolating storage traffic from production network traffic.
Hyper-V to VMware Migration
  • Proven experience performing physical and/or virtual server migrations.
  • Experience performing migrations between virtualization platforms.
  • Experience migrating Microsoft Hyper-V workloads to VMware vSphere.
  • Experience planning and executing migrations while minimizing:
    • Downtime
    • Data loss
    • Application disruption
    • User impact
  • Experience validating systems following migration.
  • Experience migrating workloads into VMware clustered SAN environments.
Windows Server / Active Directory
  • Senior-level experience administering:
    • Windows Server 2019
    • Windows Server 2022
    • Active Directory
    • Group Policy Objects
  • Experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting:
    • Windows domain environments
    • Organizational Units
    • Group Policy
    • Security policies
    • Security baselines
Linux
  • Experience administering:
    • Red Hat Linux
    • CentOS Linux
Cybersecurity / DISA STIG
  • Direct experience hardening systems in accordance with DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).
  • Experience hardening:
    • Windows Server
    • Red Hat Linux
    • CentOS Linux
  • Understanding of:
    • DoD cybersecurity requirements
    • Cybersecurity risk management
    • System security baselines
    • Security compliance
  • Ability to work closely with cybersecurity teams to identify and minimize risk.
Veeam Backup & Replication
  • Extensive hands-on experience with Veeam Backup & Replication.
  • Experience designing and managing enterprise backup environments.
  • Experience configuring:
    • Backup Jobs
    • Backup Copy Jobs
    • Backup repositories
    • Secondary/offsite repositories
    • Restore processes
    • Disaster recovery processes
  • Experience protecting:
    • Virtual machines
    • File servers
    • Databases
    • Large file shares
  • Experience supporting VMware-hosted systems protected by Veeam.
Systems Design & Integration
  • Experience designing solutions for complex enterprise environments.
  • Experience integrating mission-critical systems.
  • Ability to work directly with third-party vendors to:
    • Evaluate solutions
    • Develop integration plans
    • Implement IT solutions
  • Experience establishing baseline hardware/software configurations.
  • Experience developing solutions based on system and mission requirements.
Engineering & Technical Documentation
  • Experience drafting and reviewing Engineering Installation Plans (EIPs).
  • Experience creating and maintaining:
    • Standard Operating Procedures
    • Technical documentation
    • System documentation
    • Reports
    • Presentation slide decks
    • Troubleshooting documentation
    • Knowledge-base documentation
  • Experience documenting technical work in Remedy or comparable ticketing systems.
Troubleshooting
  • Strong experience identifying and resolving:
    • Server issues
    • Application issues
    • Infrastructure problems
    • System integration issues
  • Ability to take a systematic troubleshooting approach.
  • Experience documenting resolutions to recurring technical issues.
Testing
  • Experience developing, executing, and documenting:
    • Test plans
    • Test schedules
    • Scripted tasks
  • Experience testing systems for:
    • Availability
    • Reliability
    • Security
    • System protection
Project / Requirements Management
  • Experience developing:
    • Project schedules
    • Timelines
    • Implementation plans
    • Milestones
  • Experience managing multiple technical efforts simultaneously.
  • Ability to adapt to changing:
    • Technical requirements
    • Project priorities
    • Mission requirements
    • Implementation plans
  • Experience tracking and reporting project progress.
Communication & Collaboration
  • Ability to work effectively with:
    • Systems Administrators
    • Systems Engineers
    • Cybersecurity teams
    • Multimedia Engineers
    • Telecommunications Engineers
    • Third-party vendors
    • Government personnel
    • DoD personnel
  • Ability to provide technical status updates to leadership and stakeholders.
  • Ability to brief:
    • Technical issues
    • Problems
    • Risks
    • Solutions
    • Project status
  • Ability to explain complex technical issues to non-technical personnel.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Desired Qualifications
VMware Cloud Foundation / SDDC
  • Experience with or strong knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).
  • VMware Cloud Foundation certification or active pursuit of certification, including:
    • VCF Professional
    • VCF Advanced
    • VCF Specialist
    • Comparable current VMware/Broadcom certification
  • Understanding of Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) architecture.
  • Experience or knowledge involving:
    • Infrastructure automation
    • Lifecycle management
    • Standardized architecture frameworks
    • Automated patching
    • Standardized patch baselines
    • Software-defined compute
    • Software-defined storage
    • Software-defined networking
  • Knowledge of:
    • vSphere
    • vSAN
    • NSX
  • Experience applying VCF concepts to:
    • Secure environments
    • Multi-tenant environments
    • Multi-site environments
    • DoD or military enclaves
Advanced VMware
  • Experience with VMware Fault Tolerance (FT).
  • Advanced experience designing and scaling VMware HA/DRS environments.
  • Extensive experience building VMware environments from scratch.
  • Advanced VMware architecture and engineering experience.
Advanced SAN / Clustered Storage
  • Experience configuring:
    • Clustered VMDKs
    • SCSI Bus Sharing
    • Physical SCSI Bus Sharing
    • Shared-disk architectures
    • VMware-hosted clustered databases
  • Advanced experience with Dell PowerVault ME5 or similar SAN infrastructure.
Large-Scale Veeam Environments
  • Experience protecting large workloads in the 10 20 TB range or larger.
  • Advanced experience with:
    • Backup Copy Jobs
    • Multiple repositories
    • Offsite backups
    • Enterprise disaster recovery
    • Large database and file-share protection
Application Failover & Disaster Recovery
  • Experience designing disaster recovery solutions for tightly integrated applications.
  • Experience supporting environments where:
    • SQL databases
    • Management applications
    • Supporting services
      reside within the same VM or tightly integrated system.
  • Experience planning coordinated application failover.
Licensing Preservation
  • Knowledge of how VM migration and failover can affect node-locked application licensing.
  • Understanding of:
    • Static MAC addresses
    • BIOS UUIDs
    • VM UUIDs
    • Virtual hardware identifiers
    • Node-locked licensing
  • Experience preserving application licensing during:
    • VM migration
    • Cluster failover
    • Disaster recovery
Physical Security / Edge Systems
  • Familiarity with AMAG Symmetry or comparable mission-critical physical-security systems.
  • Understanding of:
    • Access-control systems
    • Edge-device resiliency
    • Local databases
    • Cached configurations
    • Distributed processing
    • Operation during temporary server outages
Additional Desired Experience
  • Security+ CE preferred among acceptable IAT Level II certifications.
  • Strong experience supporting mission-critical DoD systems.
  • Experience supporting highly secure or classified environments.
  • Experience with agile system integration and rapidly changing mission requirements.
* Ladders Estimates

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