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Saliense is a growing Management and Technology Consulting Solutions provider based out of Mclean, VA. We work to solve our client’s toughest challenges within the Defense, Civilian, Financial, and Healthcare industries. Our diverse employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. For more information, visit www.saliense.com.

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In addition to providing a fun, energetic environment that promotes innovation and personal growth, we offer excellent compensation packages with plenty of opportunities for advancement. We pay 100% of the premiums for employee Healthcare, including medical, dental, and vision. We offer a 401K match, and all company contributions are 100% vested immediately. Since we believe in work-life balance so much, we offer 20 days of paid leave per year. Use it as you need it or use it all at once and go travel for a month! We are proud to offer parental leave.

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Saliense is now hiring a Senior Technical Consultant (Principal Network Systems Engineer) to join our team in support of our team at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Arlington, VA.

Please note: This role is hybrid with 3 days/week onsite in Arlington, VA.

Candidates must possess an active Secret clearance to be considered and must be eligible to obtain a Top Secret clearance.

The Principal Network Systems Engineer will be responsible for leading day-to-day operations management as well as the design, implementation, documentation, and troubleshooting of the enterprise server environment. The Principal Systems Engineer must have the ability to manage server infrastructure related problems, performance, and capacity as well as work hand-in-hand with the Principal Network Engineer on network infrastructure issues impacting the enterprise environment.

Responsibilities include:

• Manages the ‘system of systems’ architecture development, partitioning of functionality among applications and components, and application interfaces/interoperability concerns.
• Systematically reviews all existing processes and procedures and implements innovative changes to meet and exceed service level agreements.
• Develops and provides recommendations for technical refresh efforts and opportunities to improve capability while driving down costs through opportunities such as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Hyper-Converged Infrastructures, automated patch management, and balancing as-is infrastructure with to-be requirements.
• Provides insights and recommendations based on industry best practices and cutting technology.
• Manages team responsible for systems engineering, security engineering, and workstation and server vulnerability remediation and patch management.
• Helps prepare plans for the development and installation of server according to present and future requirements.
• Provides expert technical support, administration, and engineering on all Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.
• Monitors, performance tunes, troubleshoots and resolves systems problems to ensure system availability.
• Troubleshoots and resolves systems problems to ensure system availability.
• Provides expert technical support with the entire VMWare environment.
• Leads and performs changes to OS, databases, applications, servers, storage, network, and backups in the data center as well as development environments.
• Manages the configuration, administration, upgrade, and maintenance of corporate and DR servers and related infrastructure as well as the Storage Environment.
• Experience with the principles, methods, and techniques used in wired and wireless network administration and engineering
• Experience managing day to day operations management of the network, including a broad range of LAN/WAN and desktop issues and providing expert knowledge of SNA implementation principles, routing protocol options, and LAN/WAN principles
• Experience solving network server problems or network infrastructure issues and managing the performance and capacity of a VLAN/LAN/WAN environment
• Experience in installation and testing of security patches and cyber security products.
• Hands-on experience designing and supporting AWS environment and utilizing AWS administrator portal. Experience in AWS services and technologies such as IAM, VPC, S3, EC2, CloudWatch and CloudTrail, Route 53, RDS, SSM, ElasticSearch and Lambda
• Experience supporting Cloud Architects to provide operational network architectures to meet mission system and development environment requirements
• Experience anticipating future network requirements, researching and analyzing emerging technologies and applyingthem to business need.
• Engineers/assists in developing solutions aligned with security, uptime, and performance.
• Maintains awareness of system management and network monitoring and the operational support tools to maintain those functions.
• Works with server patch management processes and procedures to facilitate deployment.
• Provides for the management, testing, and installation of security patches and cyber security products.
• Provides infrastructure architecture recommendations.
• Maintains systems integrity through change control and problem management procedures and communication with internal customers.
• Accomplishes department objectives by leading staff; organizing and monitoring work processes.
• Attends and participates in team meetings, training sessions, and company sponsored programs as required.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Ten (10) years of progressively more difficult experience related to system/server design and administration. Five years experience related to server/system design and administration
• Ten (10) years of overall experience related to network design and administration
• At least three (3) years of experience managing technical staff
• Knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques used in physical and virtual server administration and engineering
• Advanced knowledge of and ability to use:
• Hardware (hypervisors, hyper-converged infrastructures, blade servers, switches, routers, bridges, firewalls)
• Software (multiple operating systems, virtualization software, virtual desktop infrastructure, SCCM/MECM, monitoring tools, IPv4, IPv6)
• Other common server/network and user equipment (e.g., SAN, NAS, Video bridge)
• Ability to solve server problems or server infrastructure issues and to manage the performance and capacity of an enterprise server environment

Required Certifications and Clearance:

• IAM Level II certification such as CISSP, CASP+, or equivalent
• VCP, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Server+, Microsoft Server Certification, Certified Network Engineer, OR similar professional computing environment certification. (DoD 8570 IAT Level II Computing Environment Cert)
• Top Secret Clearance

***Saliense Consulting LLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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