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Job Type: Full- Time

Workplace Type: Onsite

Clearance: TS/SCI

Must be a U.S. Citizen

Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401k matching, generous PTO, paid holidays, professional training opportunities, and even pet insurance to ensure your furry friends are cared for too.

Job Summary

Castalia Systems is seeking an Onsite Infrastructure Engineer to support datacenter planning and sustainment of private cloud hardware software infrastructure. The guest systems include Microsoft Windows, Linux and vendor appliances. An ideal candidate should have experience in many of required technical skills below. This position requires working independently under limited oversight while supporting and maintaining the environment.

Roles and Responsibilities

A qualified candidate will perform the following duties and responsibilities, but are not limited to:

• Account for power consumption in a datacenter
• Account for cooling load in a datacenter
• Ability to work with HVAC and Electrical facilities personnel on site
• Configure, manage and maintain the physical and virtual infrastructure.
• Perform required maintenance operations of several VMware virtual infrastructure in accordance with established schedules and best practices. May require off hour support
• Implement and maintain ESXi, VM, and vCenter DISA STIGs
• Install, configure and integrate servers associated with a VMware virtual infrastructure.
• Performing backups, troubleshooting and problem resolution for servers associated with a VMware virtual infrastructure.
• Build highly available server clusters in a vSphere environment.
• Build and configuring virtual networks.
• Document, test and implement virtual services and devices.
• Assess and evaluate current virtual computing infrastructure and provide recommendations for enhancements.
• Create and maintain VM templates used for rapid deployment of virtual machines.
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures.
• Create and defend system change requests.
• Manage user requests for assistance, application installation and upgrades.
• Responsible for the maintenance, configuration, and reliable operation of secure computer systems, network servers, and switches.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software errors, documenting problems and resolutions, prioritizing problems, and assessing impact of issues.
• Create documentation of all work performed to capture configuration and installation procedures.
• Support security staff in compliance and vulnerability audits of computer systems, implementing security remediation, and during accreditation events.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of relevant professional work experience (excluding internships)
• In absence of a degree, 6 years of relevant experience is required
• Must be able to attain and maintain a DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification (Security+ or CISSP preferred).
• A strong understanding and knowledge of computer, network, and security systems.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work well independently under limited oversight, be self-directed and able to prioritize work.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with datacenter power, cooling load calculation planning
• Experience supporting datacenter thermal inspection
• Experience with Microsoft Windows Server environment to include but not limited to Active Directory, DNS and Group policy.
• Experience with Linux bash
• Understanding of network engineering fundamentals, including: OSI layers, IP addressing, sub-netting, TCP/IP stack, VLANs, DHCP, etc.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and applications as required.
• Demonstrated experience implementing computer security.
• Ability to adapt both an offensive and defensive mindset to support securing information systems.
• Ability to quickly switch tasks based on changing priorities.
• Ability to work with limited supervision. Must be a self-starter with initiative.
• Ability to work with an extremely risk adverse customer and their policies.

Physical Requirements/Work Environment

• Normal Office environment

Travel

• As needed

Company Description

Castalia Systems is a proven business partner providing mission critical solutions to the Federal Government. We provide cutting edge solutions from Securing and Managing Data to Systems Engineering and Development. Castalia Systems is a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence Design and Application.

With our vast knowledge of our customers’ needs and relevant technology, our team is able to bring successful solutions to every mission. We are one-upping our competitors by providing premium IT solutions and platforms with cutting-edge technology so it’s so evident when you compare us with anyone.

Disclaimer

Castalia Systems is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and strives to comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, HIV-positive status, as well as any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws. All such discrimination is unlawful, and all persons involved in the operations of the company are prohibited from engaging in this type of conduct.