Job Description

Job Title: Senior VMware & Data Center Engineer

Location: Washington, DC

Type: Direct Hire

Contractor Work Model: Onsite

Hours: 40.0 hours per week

Security Clearance: TS/SCI

Overview

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Responsibilities

• Design and sustain mission-critical data center environments with the goal to make an impact across the federal government.
• Use enterprise data center technologies to manage and operate servers, storage, networking, and power systems supporting mission-critical environments within the federal government.
• Support and sustain high-availability operations by monitoring infrastructure health, responding to incidents, and troubleshooting complex hardware and facility issues.
• Design, implement, and improve data center infrastructure solutions that increase reliability, performance, and resiliency.
• Participate actively in Agile execution, planning, and technical discussions, contributing immediately with hands-on expertise.
• Identify risks, constraints, and capacity concerns, and communicate them clearly along with mitigation strategies and recommendations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure infrastructure changes are executed safely and with minimal operational impact.
• Apply best practices for security, availability, and operational excellence in secure, high-visibility environments.
• Establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence through disciplined execution, ownership, and technical excellence.

Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Issued Top Secret with SCI security clearance.
• Possess DoD 8140 certification aligned to the 451 System Administrator work role, such as Security+, Cloud+, SSCP, CASP+, or CISSP.
• 8+ years of direct experience designing, implementing, and managing geographically dispersed data center infrastructure in enterprise or mission-critical environments.
• Demonstrated experience ensuring the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of data center operations, including servers, storage, networking, power, and environmental resource requirements.
• Hands-on experience administering virtualized data center platforms, including VMware or equivalent enterprise virtualization technologies.
• Operational experience managing compute, storage, and network infrastructure, including capacity planning, performance optimization, and lifecycle management.
• Hands-on experience supporting high-availability data center operations, including monitoring, fault isolation, and incident response.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related engineering field is required.
• Relevant experience may substitute where appropriate.
• Ability to contribute immediately with minimal ramp-up in a mission-critical operational environment.
• Required technical certifications include VMware VCP-DCV or equivalent data center platform certification and Security+.
• Preferred: Masters Degree.

System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé and Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.

System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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System One, and its subsidiaries including Joulé, ALTA IT Services, TeamPeople, and Mountain Ltd., are leaders in delivering outsourced services and workforce solutions across North America. We help clients get work done more efficiently and economically, without compromising quality. System One not only serves as a valued partner for our clients, but we offer eligible employees health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans, as well as participation in a 401(k) plan.

System One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, family care or medical leave status, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Job Tags

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