Systems Engineer

Position: Senior Systems Engineer 

Location: Onsite in Richmond, VA

Duration: 12+ month contract

They will not consider Remote and candidate must currently be in the local area.

Anyone you send to me must have a LinkedIn account with a picture on it.  

All Interviews will be Video

$55/hr. on c2c

Notes from when we spoke with the manager:

• Manager said the below skills are what he needs to see
• Onsite from Day 1
• Experience with VMWare to include vSphere
• 4+ years of Microsoft Server and Systems Administration experience
• Hands on experience with NSX
• Linux and vSAN experience

Job Description:

Duties/Responsibilities

• Translate VHDA’s security strategy and hyper converged architecture into a highly available and secure technical implementation in accordance with best practices
• Analyzes and defines business requirements to determine specifications and standards; proposes and develops solutions.
• Plans, installs, configure, monitors and tests hyper converged infrastructure directly or through coordination with other division/staff.
• Monitors and diagnoses problems related to the components of the hyper converged infrastructure.
• Deploys and oversees implementation and integration of web-based applications, ensuring that appropriate information security standards are met.
• Ensures functional reliable core infrastructure systems for VHDA that includes maintaining hardware and software at a stable level and meets the need of VHDA.
• Ensures environmental integrity, monitors real time performance and isolates operational bottlenecks by analyzing and diagnosing problems from monitors, dumps and other available information.
• Ensures that all relevant VHDA policies, directives, and procedures are followed and the HCI infrastructure complies with these requirements.
• Responsible for problem management escalation and resolution.
• Continuously support and collaborate with other teams and projects as needed
• Virtual Environment: Maintain VHDA’s VMware virtual server environments, vSAN and NSX. 
• Provide technical resources to install and troubleshoot the HCI environment. 
• Monitor performance and capacity to ensure ultimate response time and availability for all virtual systems.
• Reviews operation logs and event console activity to determine cause of network security-related events or to identify potential security-related events.
• Proactively protects the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information in the custody of or processed by the company by:  responding in a timely manner to a loss or misuse of network assets; participating in investigations of suspected network misuse or in compliance reviews as requested; communicating unresolved network security exposures, misuse, or noncompliance situations to management.
• Provides technical expertise to the Information Security Office and to VHDA as a whole. 
• Administers security tools that control and monitor information security, including: updating security system configurations and designing computer system vulnerability and compliance reports to identify possible security holes.
• Researches, evaluates, designs, tests, recommends and plans implementation of new or improved network security software or devices:  analyzes new or enhanced software applications or tool implementations for implications to existing network security.

Knowledge/Skill Requirement 

• Solid understanding on migration paths from traditional datacenter to (hyper)converged/software defined datacenter
• Solid understanding of infrastructure silos such as servers, storage and networking with a strong emphasis on networking and security.
• Solid understanding of virtual computing, virtual networking and virtual storage, cloud security, identity and role based access management such as vSphere, vSan, NSX.
• Experience with one or more cloud computing platforms.
• Solid troubleshooting skills in converged and hyper converged infrastructure systems to resolve compute, storage, network and other infrastructure problems
• Experience in engineering and performing capacity management for (hyper) converged infrastructure solution such as Dell EMC – VxRail
• Strong communication skills; demonstrated ability to understand customer/user experience.
• Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs and to marry multiple tools together to solve problems.
• Ability to develop and deliver projects using (when appropriate) leading-edge technology
• Strong analytical and problem-solving background.
• Solid project management skills planning and monitoring projects, with ability to multitask and manage/co-manage multiple small to large projects in a cross-functional environment.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to contribute to Network Operations efforts to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence in the team's knowledge of and concern for customers' business needs.
• Team-oriented interpersonal and communication skills; ability to communicate complex technical information in a concise and articulate manner.
• Ability to work with customers of varying levels of technical ability.