Senior Systems Engineer

Ho'olaulima Government Solutions LLC (HGS) is a Small Business Administration-certified, Native Hawaiian Organization-Owned, 8(a) Small Business which provides services and solutions in the areas of Cybersecurity Services, Information Technology Services, Professional and Technical Services, Environmental Services, and Healthcare Services to the Department of Defense and other Federal agencies.

HGS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Kina'ole Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit established to benefit Native Hawaiian communities.

You will receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Professional training reimbursement
• 401K
• Disability insurance
• ...and much, much more!

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervise, coordinate and/or design, develop and perform additions and changes to network hardware, infrastructure server environments, and operating systems, and attached devices, including investigation, analysis, recommendation, configuration, installation, and testing of new network hardware and software.
• Provide direct support in the day-to-day operations on network hardware and operating systems including the evaluation of system utilization, monitoring response time and primary support for detection and correction of operational problems.
• Troubleshoot at the physical level of the network, working with network measurement hardware and software, as well as physical checking and testing of hardware devices at the logical level working with communication protocols.
• Participate in planning design, technical review and implementation for new network infrastructure hardware and network operating systems for voice and data communication networks.
• Perform systems management and integration functions. Exhibiting proficiency with virtualization technologies and network administration. Maintain network infrastructure standards including network communication protocols such as TCP/IP.
• Provide technical consultation, training and support to IT staff as designated by the government.
• Diagnose and resolve complex communication problems.
• Perform systems management and integration functions.
• Responsible for design, deployment, evaluating, testing, certification, patching, addressing interoperability issues, not only of the base storage & backup system, but for all features, components, and application dependencies.
• Ensures systems are current with approved patches and assists with certification and system accreditation tasks, composes SOPs, and Quick Reference guides for users.
• Provides top level technical expertise responsible for design and development of a client/server environment.
• Develops strategy of client/server system and the design infrastructure necessary to support that strategy.
• Advises on selection of technological purchases with regards to processing, data storage, data access, and applications development.
• Sets standards for the client/server relational database structure for the organization.
• Advises of feasibility of potential future projects to management.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements:

• Eight (8) years' experience designing and implementing IT systems in a production environment as detailed above.
• Developing tools based on raw engineering work products and parsing of database structured data.
• Leading system/server development projects involving multiple developers, as well as experience in generating requirements documentation.
• Develop processes to validate performance metrics of systems, using available COTS/GOTS software as applicable.
• Systems/equipment installation and implementation to include installation, configuration, implementation, and validation of installation of components.
• Author and utilize scripting languages, mainly but not limited to PowerShell, to automate tedious, repetitive, and/or error prone tasks related to installation, configuration, and management of IT systems and services
• Designing of systems via hypervisors and virtualization sub-systems
• Support a variety of networking, storage, virtualization, and other components that may span across multi-generational deployments
• Evaluate effectiveness of existing technologies on site, and considering emerging technologies
• Develop cloud (examples: Azure, AWS) infrastructure systems
• Develop on premise cloud (examples: Azure, AWS, OpenStack) infrastructure systems
• Add, configure, and manage Roles and Features on Microsoft Server (current Version)
• Configure and monitor systems/servers utilizing Failover Cluster Manager tools
• Configure and monitor systems/servers utilizing Remote Server Administrative Tools (RSAT), Windows Admin Center and Azure Arc
• Must possess an active Top Secret Clearance

Preferred Skills:

• Microsoft (current Version) Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)
• Microsoft's System Center monitoring components/methods
• Mass storage arrays and servers
• Dell OpenManage essentials
• Windows Server Update Services
• Containers
• Group Policy Management
• SQL Server
• Azure Stack

HGS is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.