Systems Engineer

Overview

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Leidos Digital Modernization sector is seeking a motivated, career-oriented System Engineer with proven experience to join the JSP Platform Services team in Norfolk, VA to support the DISA JSP customer.

Shift Schedule : Monday-Friday, 8 : 00 to 5 : 00 PM core hours with occasional after-hours onsite work to support both a NIPR and SIPR environment.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for designing, technical planning, and implementing complex integrated total systems configuration for virtual appliances and physical hardware builds, installs, and upgrades.
• Provide technical review and expertise leading hardware LCR recommendations to leadership in consideration for equipment procurement evolutions.
• Evaluate virtual and physical system services and coordinate engineering configuration change review board (ECRB / CAB) documentation and brief board on technical details, requirements and milestones.
• Routinely conduct system analysis and market research to present whitepapers guiding Government leadership in modernization efforts.
• Create and implement multi-layered technical optimization plans for the unclassified and classified vSphere and Horizon enterprise environments.
• Create and maintain PowerShell scripts relating to virtual infrastructure and Microsoft servers.
• Plan, coordinate and execute virtual and physical deployments to production such as ESXi Hypervisor, VDI, and other required infrastructure upgrades, system enhancements, and enterprise LCM evolutions.
• Create, modify, and maintain Standard Operating Procedures / Work Instruction documentation.
• Regularly perform STIGs on vCenter, Photon OS, ESXi, virtual distributed switches, virtual machines, Microsoft Server OS, and Linux OS (e.g., RHEL, Oracle Linux).
• Deploy and maintain Microsoft Server 2019 and 2022.
• Regularly perform maintenance on Microsoft Domain Controllers, DNS, DHCP, and GPOs.
• Regularly perform maintenance and upgrades on VMware Horizon VDI environment.
• Plan and coordinate endpoint-connected devices management, upgrades, and enhancements.
• Coordinate system image builds in accordance with planned projects and initiatives and prepare deployment to production.
• Act as SME in virtual system deep-dives, log analysis, and Linux command line in support of troubleshooting efforts and problem resolution.
• Respond to system faults, analyze and correct applications or system faults to reestablish service.
• Maintain and update relevant system and process documentation.
• Establish and maintain strong working relationships with all team members.
• Manage time and technical responsibilities, set accurate expectations and meet deliverable deadlines in a collaborative environment.
• Maintain, update, install required certificates and track certificate revocation dates to ensure continuity of services.
• Test and implement patches for ESXi, vCenter, VMware Tools, iLO / BIOS / Firmware / VC / OA, and Dell Servers (iDRAC, BIOS, Firmware).
• Implement and support Dell PowerStore Storage / SAN solutions.
• Understand system hardening, tools, guidelines and benchmarks and routinely conduct STIG compliance spot-checks on various Linux, Linux-like and Windows endpoints using SCAP / Evaluate-STIG and CLI.
• Produce White Papers, proposals, pilot analyses as related to new technology introduction and developmental work.

Basic Requirements

Preferred Qualifications

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