PRINCIPAL SYSTEMS ENGINEER

NorthHill Technology Resources has an urgent need for a Principal Systems Engineer to support a Navy Program in Arlington, VA.  This is a direct-hire role with our client, a fast-growing Federal Integrator.  US Citizenship and an active Secret Clearance is required - TS preferred.   Responsibilities include: Manages the ‘system of systems’ architecture development, partitioning of functionality among applications and components, and application interfaces/interoperability concerns. Systematically reviews all existing processes and procedures and implements innovative changes to meet and exceed service level agreements. Develops and provides recommendations for technical refresh efforts and opportunities to improve capability while driving down costs through opportunities such as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Hyper-Converged Infrastructures, automated patch management, and balancing as-is infrastructure with to-be requirements. Provides insights and recommendations based on industry best practices and cutting technology. Manages team responsible for systems engineering, security engineering, and workstation and server vulnerability remediation and patch management. Helps prepare plans for the development and installation of server according to present and future requirements. Provides expert technical support, administration, and engineering on all Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. Monitors, performance tunes, troubleshoots and resolves systems problems to ensure system availability. Troubleshoots and resolves systems problems to ensure system availability. Provides expert technical support with the entire VMWare environment. Leads and performs changes to OS, databases, applications, servers, storage, network, and backups in the data center as well as development environments. Manages the configuration, administration, upgrade, and maintenance of corporate and DR servers and related infrastructure as well as the Storage Environment. Engineers/assists in developing solutions aligned with security, uptime, and performance. Maintains awareness of system management and network monitoring and the operational support tools to maintain those functions. Works with server patch management processes and procedures to facilitate deployment. Provides for the management, testing, and installation of security patches and cyber security products. Provides infrastructure architecture recommendations. Maintains systems integrity through change control and problem management procedures and communication with internal customers. Accomplishes department objectives by leading staff; organizing and monitoring work processes. Attends and participates in team meetings, training sessions, and company sponsored programs as required. Required qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field Ten (10) years of progressively more difficult experience related to system/server design and administration. Five years experience related to server/system design and administration Knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques used in physical and virtual server administration and engineering Advanced knowledge of and ability to use: Hardware (hypervisors, hyper-converged infrastructures, blade servers, switches, routers, bridges, firewalls) Software (multiple operating systems, virtualization software, virtual desktop infrastructure, SCCM/MECM, monitoring tools, IPv4, IPv6) Other common server/network and user equipment (e.g., SAN, NAS, Video bridge) Ability to solve server problems or server infrastructure issues and to manage the performance and capacity of an enterprise server environment Required Certifications and Clearance: DoD 8570 IAM Level II certification such as CISSP, CASP+, CAP, CASP or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification such as CCNA, CySA+, Security+, SSCP, CASP, CCNP, CISA, CISSP,  VCP, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Server+, Microsoft Server Certification, Certified Network Engineer, OR similar professional computing environment certification.  Top Secret Clearance (Minimum of a Secret Clearance)