Powder River Industries LLC
VDI Engineer - Senior (Evergreen)
Powder River Industries LLC, Washington, District of Columbia, us, 20022
Job Type
Full-time
Description
Powder River Industries, LLC provides technical services across the entire system development life cycle (SDLC). As a prime, we are responsible for complete end to end system management for a customer's mission system. This includes a data center, integrated logistics support, COOP, and disaster recovery. As a subcontractor we are providing services from: DevSecOps, software development, network administration, systems analysis, database administration, storage engineering, hardware engineering, Tier 1 - Tier 3 support in traditional data center environments (bare metal frames), cloud, and hybrid cloud. The cloud environments we are operating in today are AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle.
Role & Responsibilities:
The chosen candidate is to provide support for a broad range of programs including planning, analysis and testing various components for unclassified and classified networks in support of Joint Service Provider. The correct candidate will integrate into a team of Systems Administrators supporting daily operations.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Experience working with VMWare ESXi or other virtualization platforms
• Experience using Hyperconverged platforms
• Experience with fabric interconnect; UCS line of Cisco products and services
• Performs functions at a high level of skill and proficiency.
• Optimizes system operation and resource utilization and performs system capacity analysis and planning.
• Updates firmware and required device profiles installed / deployed to Zero Client devices.
• Maintains fully patched/updated/mitigated Operating System image for testing and production and provides assistance to customers with operations of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) systems.
• Collaborates with other Systems Administrators with troubleshooting and resolving issues that negatively affect the customer's virtual computing environment.
• Works directly with VMware VCenter Server/ESXi Hosts and VMWare Horizon View Administrator and maintains the virtual client pools, and virtual machines for maximum efficiency and monitors the virtual and physical network to ensure system availability.
• Updates/remediates patching of ESXi host devices.
• Compiles the VDI Operating System image for testing and deployment to the user production environment.
• Occasional on-call support in the event of an emergency situation (approximately every eight weeks.).
• Shift schedule is daily Monday - Friday
• Knowledge of Server or Desktop hardware
Requirements
Clearance: Active Top Secret Clearance6+ years equivalent experience/combined education, certification.CompTIA Security+ CECurrent Microsoft Windows 10 or VMware (VCA or VCP- preferred) certificationsAn ideal candidate would have demonstrated experience in use of Cisco UCS or Hyperflex/HX specifically.On-call support is a requirement. Surge support outside of normal business hours (EST) will be required. Normal shift schedule Monday - Friday, EST, start/end time may vary based on commute.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
Full-time
Description
Powder River Industries, LLC provides technical services across the entire system development life cycle (SDLC). As a prime, we are responsible for complete end to end system management for a customer's mission system. This includes a data center, integrated logistics support, COOP, and disaster recovery. As a subcontractor we are providing services from: DevSecOps, software development, network administration, systems analysis, database administration, storage engineering, hardware engineering, Tier 1 - Tier 3 support in traditional data center environments (bare metal frames), cloud, and hybrid cloud. The cloud environments we are operating in today are AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle.
Role & Responsibilities:
The chosen candidate is to provide support for a broad range of programs including planning, analysis and testing various components for unclassified and classified networks in support of Joint Service Provider. The correct candidate will integrate into a team of Systems Administrators supporting daily operations.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Experience working with VMWare ESXi or other virtualization platforms
• Experience using Hyperconverged platforms
• Experience with fabric interconnect; UCS line of Cisco products and services
• Performs functions at a high level of skill and proficiency.
• Optimizes system operation and resource utilization and performs system capacity analysis and planning.
• Updates firmware and required device profiles installed / deployed to Zero Client devices.
• Maintains fully patched/updated/mitigated Operating System image for testing and production and provides assistance to customers with operations of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) systems.
• Collaborates with other Systems Administrators with troubleshooting and resolving issues that negatively affect the customer's virtual computing environment.
• Works directly with VMware VCenter Server/ESXi Hosts and VMWare Horizon View Administrator and maintains the virtual client pools, and virtual machines for maximum efficiency and monitors the virtual and physical network to ensure system availability.
• Updates/remediates patching of ESXi host devices.
• Compiles the VDI Operating System image for testing and deployment to the user production environment.
• Occasional on-call support in the event of an emergency situation (approximately every eight weeks.).
• Shift schedule is daily Monday - Friday
• Knowledge of Server or Desktop hardware
Requirements
Clearance: Active Top Secret Clearance6+ years equivalent experience/combined education, certification.CompTIA Security+ CECurrent Microsoft Windows 10 or VMware (VCA or VCP- preferred) certificationsAn ideal candidate would have demonstrated experience in use of Cisco UCS or Hyperflex/HX specifically.On-call support is a requirement. Surge support outside of normal business hours (EST) will be required. Normal shift schedule Monday - Friday, EST, start/end time may vary based on commute.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.