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**Description**

The Digital Modernization Group at Leidos is currently 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.

**PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Responsible for co-designing, technical planning, and implementing complex integrated total systems configuration for virtual appliances and physical hardware builds, installs, and upgrades.
- Provided technical review and recommendations to leadership in consideration for equipment procurement evolutions
- Responsible for planning and evaluating 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 perform systems requirements analysis, analyze technical functionality and system quality assurance.
- Execute virtual and physical Data Center systems integration 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 STIG vCenter, OS, ESXi, virtual machines, Microsoft Server OS, and Linux OS (i.e. RHEL, Oracle Linux)
- Plan and create Microsoft Server and Linux based operating system engineering and integration
- Regularly perform maintenance and upgrades on VMware Horizon VDI environment
- Perform system image builds IAW planned projects and initiatives and prepare deployment as required
- Perform virtual system deep-dives, log analysis, and Linux command line execution in support of troubleshooting efforts and problem resolution
- Maintain and update relevant system and process documentation.
- Successfully manage time and technical responsibilities, set accurate expectations and meet deliverable deadlines while working in a team collaboration 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, HPE Blades (iLO/BIOS/Firmware/VC/OA), and Dell Servers (iDRAC, BIOS, Firmware)
- Implement and support Dell PowerStore Storage/SAN solutions
- Understanding of system hardening, tools, guidelines and benchmarks and routinely conduct STIG compliance spot-checks on various Linux, Linux-like and Windows endpoints using SCAP and CLI

**BASIC REQUIREMENTS**
- Requires BS degree and 2 - 4 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 - 10 years of prior relevant experience. Experience in lieu of degree may be accepted.
- Knowledge and experience with VMWare ESXi Hypervisor technical integration of bare metal blade servers as well as rack server technology and hardware solutions.
- Understanding of VM Kernel Operating System installation and virtual server on physical server implementation.
- Experience and knowledge with implementing virtualization of DFS nodes based on Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) in supported of file shares and folder redirections within VDI
- Understanding of power shell scripting or programming for systems management.
- Experience with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) / DaaS
- Experience implementing end-user profile management solution based on FSLogix, VMware Clustered VMDKs, Clustered Shared Volumes, and Scale-Out File Server (SOFS)
- Strong understanding of enterprise, network, systems, operations and support.
- Excellent writing and speaking skills
- Experience with creating and maintaining network and computer datacenter diagrams, rack elevations, and drawings
- 8570/8140 IAT Level II or III: Security+ CE, and System OS Cert (e.g. Linux Windows server)
- Active DoD Secret clearance

**Original Posting Date**: 2024-04-29

**Pay Range**: Pay Range $81,250.00 - $146,875.00

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.