Procurement Desktop Defense

3 months ago


Arlington, United States Empower AI Full time

Overview

Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have. The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit .

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Responsibilities

Empower AI: As the Procurement Desktop Defense (PD2) Application SME, you will be a key member of the Empower AI team providing support to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Joint Service Provider (JSP) on the Platform Services contract. JSP operates and defends the Department of Defense’s (DOD) key cyber terrain and provides information technology (IT) services to Pentagon and National Capital Region (NCR) customers. For Platform Services, Empower AI will provide an integrated, structured approach to operating, managing, and maintaining the JSP-supported infrastructure across all managed platforms, as well as assist in defining requirements for future upgrades and enhancements based on operational and customer trends. We will provide a unified approach to managing server, storage, and application resources (to include virtualized applications) at an enterprise level. In order to drive standardization in the hosting environment, Empower AI will assist customers, both external and internal, by moving applications to the JSP IT environments. This will allow JSP to offer services and infrastructure to customers via a Platform as a Service model, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model, Desktop as a Service (DaaS) model, or at minimum, limit application deployments only to standardized servers.

Highlights of Responsibilities:

Provide technical expertise with the Procurement Desktop Defense (PD2) application. Manage PD2 software vSR16 for several JSP server and client systems. Provide expertise in Sybase ASE 15.0.3 or higher, Windows environment on Server 2012, and Windows 7 and/or 10 operating systems, applications/systems in clustered environments, securing Operating Systems to comply with DISA STIGs, and configuring and maintaining desktop firewalls.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering, computer information systems, telecommunications, or management information systems, and 2 - 7 recent years of documented experience relevant to this key position. Information Assurance (IA) Certification: DoDI 8570 IAT II certification. Computing Environment (CE) Certification: Recent and relevant technical certification. Top Secret security clearance. Experience in managing the PD2 software vSR16 for several JSP server and client systems, to include knowledge in future versions. Experience with Sybase ASE 15.0.3 or higher. Experience with Windows environment on Server 2012, and Windows 7 and/or 10 operating systems environments similar in size and scope of this order. Experience with applications/systems in clustered environments. Experience with securing Operating Systems to comply with DISA STIGs; network experience configuring and maintaining desktop firewalls. Possess certifications for PD2 and PD2 adapter.

Preferred Qualifications:

ITILv4 certification

Physical Requirements:

Sitting for long periods Standing for long periods Ambulate throughout an office Ambulate between several buildings Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl as required Travel by land or air transportation 25% or less

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