Hardware Engineer III with Security Clearance

Federated IT seeks a highly qualified Hardware Engineer to join a mission-focused team that maintains applications, services, microservices, configuration, integration, and support services. The effort requires the development, testing, maintenance, deployment, and enhancement of a network and underlying services/microservices' while identifying future capability needs and eliminating overlaps. The team will continuously improve sustainment and development to reinvest resources to provide new capabilities and improve the effectiveness, quality, and robustness of the underlying technology. The effort directly supports intelligence analysts and operators across the intelligence community and Combatant Commands.
The Hardware Engineer will be an IT hardware subject matter to provide operational support for our virtualization, compute, and storage infrastructure and work in a team environment in migrating some workloads into corporate cloud computing environments as part of legacy datacenter integration activities. The selected candidate will work with stakeholders to migrate servers into the new operating environment as well as rack and stack equipment Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Designs, plans, and integrates cloud computing, storage, and virtualization hardware systems. Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
Provide Network Engineering and Data Center support to design, operate, maintain, secure, and document three developmental enterprise networks
Isolate and resolve simple and complex network problems within the enterprise as well as design, installation, operation, application of security policies, vulnerability analysis and remediation, and create/edit documentation of current physical and logical topographies and any future changes.
Work independently and across IT functional boundaries (other network administrators, system administrators, database administrators, etc.) with configuration, installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, upgrade and system management of network components and other systems to maintain maximum operability to meet critical mission objectives.
Provide network administration support in terms of installing, configuring, maintaining security, installing patches, and performing necessary upgrades to keep all network devices up-to-date and secure to include physical patching and software.
Accountable for maintaining daily operations, monitoring, problem identification/resolution of server/systems, applications, operating systems and analyzing activity and performance ensuring system/application is providing optimum performance and availability.
Perform re-accreditation actions such as DISA STIG review, IOS upgrades, vulnerability scan remediation, and document various lists (PPSM, H/W, and S/W) during the network's accreditation cycle.
Review Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts/Bulletins related to CISCO, Juniper, Dell, Netscout, and other products then develop and implement remediation plans.
Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
Responsible for troubleshooting and managing incident resolution with direct vendor support when needed. Required Knowledge Skill, and Abilities include: Security clearance status of TS/SCI with a CI polygraph test
Must be DoD 8570 compliant at IA Technical (IAT)/IA Management (IAM) Level 2, Experience working on a development team under DoD/DIA Risk Management Framework
Required Education and Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering with 8 or more years of practical Network Administration experience in LAN technologies; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
7 years network engineering / data center operations experience with a minimum of 4 years performing operations and maintenance in enterprise level Cloud Services environments
Candidate should be able to demonstrate a working knowledge in engineering design and operational application in the following areas:
5 years' experience with server migration tools and methodologies
3 years' experience in Dell EMC, NetApp, PureStorage, or Cloudarian storage and their management
Proven experience with various routing and networking protocols such as: EIGRP, BGP, SNMP, OSPF, Spanning Tree, ARP, dot1Q, VLANs, VPN, GRE, subnetting, NAT, and Netflow
Experience with data packet capture, traffic analysis, and vulnerability analysis and remediation
Additional experience with:
o Security sub-systems, including firewalls & proxy devices
o Oracle & SQL database systems
o MS Windows Server 2016, 2012+
o Red Hat Linux (latest)
Preferred Education and Experience:
Experience in the Intelligence Community
Enterprise-level information systems: 7 years
DoD systems engineering: 7 years
Cloud Technologies: 3 years
Systems engineering certification, or 4 additional years of related engineer experience is preferred.
Sound understanding of and experience with VMWare Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) concepts and implementation. VMware Certified Professional Datacenter Virtualization (VCP-DCV), CompTIA Network +, or CCNA a plus.
Experience with scripting in a server administration environment. Knowledge of PowerShell, PowerCLI, API scripting, and Javascript a plus.
Experienced in Kanban, and/or Agile development methodologies and related Tools, such as Microsoft TFS / ServiceNow / JIRA / Slack, et al.
Experience with preparation and submission of systems accreditation packages in accordance with Risk Management Framework, NIST SP 800-37 on both unclassified and classified network environments: 5 years The successful candidate will possess:
Strong Visio knowledge; Experienced with Security Systems Engineering Plans and the Defense Acquisition System (PDR/ CDR / MVP / ORR / System Acceptance, etc.)
Ability to communicate security findings across various stakeholder communities, including software developers, system administrators, project managers, program managers, system owners, and authorizing officials. Possess a customer centric approach to cybersecurity.
Prospective candidates should have strong risk management skills, excellent communication, teamwork, and conflict management skills
Candidate must be analytical and effectively able to prioritize needs, requirements, and other issues
Ability to communicate and interact effectively at all levels of staff and management
Ability to exercise independent judgment, develop relationships, and obtain consensus among interested parties
Critical thinker with strong technical skills, diagnostic skills and problem-solving ability
Solid written and verbal communication skills to negotiate direction, drive projects and projects to successful conclusion and deliver knowledge to team members verbally and via clear designs, runbooks and technical engineering and exchange sessions
Self-starter, flexible, adaptable, collaborative and motivated to champion continuous improvement
Ability to develop peer networks across an enterprise to maintain technology awareness and to support resolution of problems
Ability to operate across traditional technical boundaries, comfortable working in the compute space as well as the storage space in an operational capacity Technically curious and driven to learn new skills
General Factors:
Depending on project requirements, may be required to work within a compressed schedule; overtime should be expected when schedules demand it
Willing to travel
No Relocation Company Information:
Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Washington DC, Federated IT offers a productive, and collaborative work environment and competitive compensation packages including medical and dental insurance, paid time off (15-days) and holidays, tuition reimbursement, 401K, short and long-term disability, HAS/FSA, employee life insurance, and more.

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