Ddi Network Engineer Jobs in Virginia (NOW HIRING)

Description
Provide level operations, management, and sustainment (O&M&S) support for the Naval Exchange Point services, including maintaining security compliance (STIGs, firewall rules, and patches), performing regular software updates, troubleshooting application, connectivity, and performance issues, maintaining system documentation and procedures, and addressing requests through the ticketing system. Responsibilities
• Incident Response: Quickly identify, triage, and address outages, analyzing symptoms and potential root causes to implement effective resolutions or escalate to Tier 3 support when necessary. • Performance Monitoring: Utilize advanced monitoring tools to oversee virtual infrastructure and ensure optimal performance. • Communication & Collaboration: Provide clear, professional written advisories to customers and operations staff, translating technical information into actionable insights.
• Device maintenance: Ensure Applications are running and up to date, deploy patches and software updates as needed, maintain system configuration and documentation. Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Required/Desired Skills:
• 2+ years relevant experience in supporting a large network infrastructure. • Experience administering Linux and/or Windows Servers • Secret clearance or higher preferred
• 8140 compliance (Active Security and OS certifications)
• Understanding of Active Directory and Group Policy principles
• Understanding of advanced DNS topics
• Python, BASH, PowerShell, or similar • Knowledge and understanding of Ansible (Tower), Puppet, Chef, Terraform, Containerization, Jenkins, or similar principles
• Previous experience working with VMs within VMWare vSphere • Experience or knowledge with the following a plus: - Nautobot - RHEL Satelite - InfoBlox DDI About the Company:
NexGen Data Systems is an emerging technologies focused company providing expert systems and network engineering solutions to the Department of Defense. NexGen Data Systems promotes a culture of knowledge and career advancement through continued learning, keeping our team current on the latest advances in systems and networking, and enabling our team to provide the best available solutions to our clients. Benefits:
• Company covers 100% of premiums for the employee’s medical, dental, and vision insurance and subsidizes premiums for spouse and dependents.
• Company provides short and long term disability plans.
• 401(k) match up to 10% of the employee’s salary contributions to 401(K) plan.
• Comprehensive training and development program.
• 11 paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) accrual level starts at 15 days annually. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. NOTE: US Citizens and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. In order to be qualified for this position, you must be able to obtain and maintain a United States Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance. We are unable to sponsor Visas at this time. NexGen Data Systems provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.