Infrastructure Engineer

Public Trust: None

Requisition Type: Regular

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nation’s safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats.

Job Description

Deliver simple solutions to complex problems as an Infrastructure Engineer at GDIT. Here, you’ll tailor cutting-edge solutions to the unique requirements of our clients. With a career in application development, you’ll make the end user’s experience your priority and we’ll make your career growth ours.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on an Infrastructure Engineer joining our team to support our intelligence in Herndon, VA.

The Infrastructure Engineer will be responsible for the engineering and execution of all Datacenter and Cloud Lab environments and ensuring connectivity between the environments to meet the business area's strategic objectives. The Infrastructure Engineer will work closely with a variety of stakeholders to provide internal services to the various Business Area teams, such as architects, engineers, and developers.

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work closely with management and architects to align the lab's architecture to strategic and tactical goals
• Be an engineer for major initiatives, changes and deployments, and handle the diagnosis of complex issues within the virtual environment
• Responsible for operating and maintaining network configurations and virtualization environments
• Responsible for managing and coordinating the installation and maintenance of all physical infrastructure
• Ensure appropriate security and hardening measures are in place for development and test environments
• Responsible for organizing and maintaining all lab cloud environments and assist in controlling cost in cloud accounts
• Coordinate with other services lanes (Storage Team, Database Team, etc.) for larger lab deployments
• Write and maintain up to date documentation of designs/configurations using Visio, GitLab, and SharePoint

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

EDUCATION:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5+ years of related systems engineering experience

REQUIRED :

• Experience managing and maintaining a sophisticated virtualized environment that includes multiple operating systems and various networking equipment
• Experience with virtualization and platform technologies (VMWare ESXi, OpenShift, etc.)
• Experience integrating, troubleshooting, and automating systems in a Windows and Linux/Unix environment
• Knowledge of network technologies, common infrastructure components, load balancers, firewalls, virtual and physical infrastructure design
• Must be hands-on and able to work independently to design and build out new systems, including a willingness to learn and implement with new technologies
• Strong organizational and configuration management skills to maintain inventory and architectural documentation
• Active TS/SCI clearance with ability to obtain CI Polygraph

DESIRED :

• Experience with public clouds such as AWS, Azure, Google, etc.
• Experience building Amazon EC2 instances integrating with other AWS services
• Experience with or working knowledge of on-premise Storage Subsystems (EMC, NetApp, etc)
• Experience with Automation Tools (Salt, Chef, etc.)
• Experience with DevOps Tools (GitLab, Jenkins, etc.)
• Experience with Python scripting

Work Requirements

Years of Experience

5 + years of related experience

* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

Travel Required

None

Citizenship

U.S. Citizenship Required