Senior Data Center Infrastructure Engineer - Leidos

Description

Are you ready for a rewarding career challenge?

Unleash your potential at Leidos, where we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customer’s success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

If this sounds like an environment where you can thrive, keep reading!

Are you an experienced Senior Data Center Infrastructure Engineer looking for a new challenge? Join our team supporting the cutting-edge Cyber TRIDENT Program and make an impact by guiding the definition, implementation, and delivery of capability focused on Cyber Training systems. As a key player in our team, you will leverage your skills to provide expertise in infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment across an agile lifecycle in a virtualized computing environment. Don't miss the opportunity to take your career to the next level and be part of an innovative and dynamic environment. Apply now!

Your greatest work is ahead!

The Mission
The Leidos National Security Sector provides a diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide. Solutions for National Security include enterprise and mission IT, large-scale intelligence systems, command and control, geospatial and data analytics, cybersecurity, logistics, training, and intelligence analysis and operations support. Our team is solving the world’s toughest security challenges for customers with “can’t fail” missions. From scanning for illicit material at ports and borders to predicting future events and instability up to five years in advance, our products help customers make the world safer. To explore and learn more, click here!

Are you ready to join a team dedicated to a mission? Begin your journey of a flourishing and meaningful career - share your resume with us today!

Shift work (Evening (2-10pm) Weekdays) and some travel required.  Must possess a U.S. DoD Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI.

Primary Responsibilities

Your Main Objective:

• Provide support with the design, implementation, operation, and maintenance of full stack data center infrastructure, including but not limited to: Compute, Storage, Networking, Power, Cabling, Racking, Virtualization, Containerization and physical facility infrastructure.
• Work in a team environment, providing leadership and mentoring to a multi-faceted technical team of engineers of varying skills and experience.
• Work in a product team environment with all stakeholders, being flexible to change in customer requirements.
• Responsible for ensuring maximum system uptime and rapidly respond professionally, effectively, and efficiently to hardware and software service requests in a fast-paced environment.
• Analyze problems and implement solutions according to corporate and government guidelines, procedures, and industry best practices.
• Assure system stability, accessibility, and proper configuration of all systems and components.
• Establish processes and procedures for maintaining, configuring, managing and testing the systems, ensuring that application software, cybersecurity and operational use cases are fully accounted for.
• Provide daily operations and maintenance on Cisco devices, physical and virtual F5 devices and on VMware NSX.
• Develop and maintain scripts for automating tasks, administration, data collection and reporting.
• Provide support in configuring systems by lifting servers into racks, performing cabling, install operating systems and applications.
• Work with customers, vendors, and developers to communicate changes to operational requirements that may impact development and testing activities.
• Perform system audits and performance log analysis and report results to team leads.

Basic Qualifications

What Sets You Apart:

• Bachelor’s degree and 10 or more years of experience in a relevant field. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Must be able to prioritize multiple tasks, projects, and demands from leadership, customer, and other team members.
• Understanding of Agile Scrum methodology.
• Effective interpersonal and communications skills to convey and present system performance info, to mentor colleagues, and to interface effectively with vendors, customers, and team partners.
• Ability to solve technical problems involving a variety of integrated software and hardware platforms.
• Well-versed with Linux system management, specifically with Red Hat OS including Identity Management (IdM) and Single Sign On (SSO).
• Experience with scripting (Ansible, Python, Bash, Puppet, PowerShell)
• Ability to navigate Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Git and Kustomize.
• Experience with F5 / BIG IP physical and virtual network devices
• Understanding of Cisco networking technologies such as the following. Switching (Cisco Nexus (7k’s, 5k’s, 2k’s, 9k’s, Catalyst 4k’s, VLAN’s, STP, RSTP, VPC, VPC+, OTV, VXLAN), Routing technologies (ASR, ISRG2, EIGRP, BGP, redistribution, summarization), IP (IPV4 & IPV6, NAT, ACL’s, DNS, DHCP), Multicast protocols (PIM SM/DM/SSM), and Cisco IOS
• Experience with Grafana Dashboards and Databases.
• Experience with Mattermost collaboration platform.
• Experience with Dell Hardware and iDRACs.

Preferred Qualifications

You Might Also Have:

• CCNA or CISSP is highly desired.
• Knowledge of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
• Knowledge of Distributed Firewall (DFW) rules.
• Knowledge of the Atlassian Confluence and Jira products.
• Knowledge of the Nakivo backup solution.
• Knowledge of Minio and content transfer.
• Knowledge of OpenDash360 platform.
• Knowledge of SMTP servers.

At Leidos, the opportunities are boundless. We inspire our staff with interesting assignments that allow them to thrive professionally and personally. For us, helping you grow your career is good business. We look forward to learning more about you – apply today!

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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