Position Description:

The candidate must be able to provides assistance in all aspects of network management from network design through implementation, maintenance, and upgrading of existing networks; Analyzes design, specifications, and related documents; Implements communication system requirements to support the distributed functionality of a software engineering environment; Analyzes network characteristics (e.g. traffic connect time, transmission speeds, packet sizes and throughput), troubleshoots problems and recommends procurement of and/or modifications to network components.

Job Location: Scott AFB

Clearance Required:

•  TS/SCI

Degree and Years of Experience:

• Three (3) or more years’ experience related to management of network virtualization environments

Required Certifications:

• DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification (current)
• Possess, or be willing to obtain within 6-months of start date, an additional certification related to Networking and/or virtualization
  

Required Skills:

• Ability to conduct complex network problem analysis; resolve complex network problems
• Ability to research, recommend, and evaluate network performance, optimization, and security solutions
• Assist system engineers and cross organizational teams to formulate solutions in response to mission requirements
• Design and verify network solutions to support requirements for routing protocols, policy-based routing, traffic shaping, border gateway protocols, tunneling IP Security, network address translations, network security, firewall contexts, load-balancing, latency, data throughput, WAN acceleration, and monitoring
• Install and configure vCenter Server
• Configure and maintain ESXi servers
• Setup and configure HA, vMotion and DRS
• Configure Datacenters, Clusters, Resource Pools, VM’s and virtual switching
• Install, configure and manage VDI solutions utilizing VMware Horizon with View
• Monitor health of VMs operating in various datacenters
• Manage replications and VM movements between datacenters
• Manage disaster recovery of the virtualized environment using SRM
• Coordinate with various Storage, Network & Security and Server Admin teams
• Administer various Windows and Linux operating systems
• Ability to quickly adapt and understand customer’s environment and learn supporting technologies
• Understanding of VMware’s integration with Dell EMC Storage.
• Manage VMware data center products
• General administration of SAN storage arrays (NetAPP FAS & E Series, HP 3PAR, etc.)
• Design, architect and implement storage (disk layout, RAID levels, etc.) to ensure storage performance and data availability
• Perform capacity planning and assist with storage forecasting
• Provision storage and assist in server configurations
• Provide Brocade SAN Switch configuration and support
• Work with other engineers (UNIX, Windows, networking, etc.) and operations staff responsible for the hardware, software and processes that support storage subsystems, and data backup and recovery operations
• Work off hours when required to perform maintenance activities, system upgrades and data migrations

Preferred Skills/ Qualifications:

• Experience working on Department of Defense (DoD) networks - USAF Standard Desktop Configuration (SDC)
• Experience using the Remedy & ServiceNow Ticketing System
• Experience in tracing lines
• Experience with Microsoft Windows Active Directory object creation, deletion, and attributes.
• Experience with administrative tasks in support of asset management such as notification of equipment location changes to the Equipment Custodian

Additional Requirements:

• May also need to pull cables to support the installation of new workspaces

Posted On: Monday, September 9, 2024