Systems Engineer II (VMware)

Location: Pocatello, ID

Overview:

IntelliBridge is an award-winning national security company looking for a VMware Systems Engineer to support a federal agency by designing, deploying, testing, certifying, patching, and addressing interoperability issues of all VMware components to include the hypervisor, vSphere, NSX, vRealize Suite, and Site Recovery Manager, etc. to meet the needs and support the missions of the agency.

As a direct employee of IntelliBridge, you would receive a benefit package that includes health/dental/vision insurance coverage, 401K with company match, PTO & paid holidays, and annual tuition/training assistance. For more information, please visit our website.

Clearance:

• Active TS Required

Responsibilities/Duties:

• Eight (8) years of experience with designing, implementing and providing ongoing support of the on-premise hybrid and cloud Infrastructure.
• Design, implement and provide ongoing support of the on-premise cloud Infrastructure.
• Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for all VMware environments.
• Create and maintain an on-premise cloud, software defined data center infrastructure for both bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate SAN, network, or local storage configurations, using both OEM and third-party tools that include virtual storage tools and services.
• Automate and provision/configure of all required resources for servers.
• Evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the virtualized infrastructure.
• Monitor and correct critical storage issues and create recovery processes and hardware for failures and performance bottlenecks.
• Install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools, infrastructure, and server plugins.
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.
• Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes.
• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks, such as automated provisioning storage with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Participate in the design of information and operational support systems and provide 3rd level support.
• Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
• Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date to include inventory and patch levels of all systems to include hostnames, property numbers, IP addresses, enclave, number of cores, number of processors, admin passwords, certificates, and service accounts on a monthly interval.
• Integrate systems with Windows and Linux as it applies to core service dependencies. Engineer and implement solutions for multi factor authentication with FBI standardized software and hardware.
• Document system configurations to include passwords, access controls, version number, and revision numbers, patch levels, and inventory to include hostnames, TCP/IP addresses, number of processors, and number of cores, memory, and license keys.
• Provide real-time reporting of provisioned and non-provisioned and utilized resources to include performance metrics for availability, performance, and trends.
• Continually transition knowledge to the government staff through training and assistance on how to use the technology using industry best practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred

• VMware Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) certification within the last five (5) years or must be able to obtain VCP-DCV certification within 6-months after hire date.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced VMWare certifications such as Cloud Management and Automation (DCV-CMA)

About Us:

IntelliBridge delivers IT strategy, cloud, cybersecurity, application, data and analytics, enterprise IT, intelligence analysis, and mission operation support services to accelerate technical performance and efficiency for Defense, Civilian, and National Security & Federal Law Enforcement clients.