Senior System VDI Engineer Job Listing at SAIC in Omaha, NE (Job ID 2413937)

Description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Senior System-VDI Engineer that is passionate about craftsmanship, teamwork, and delivering user capability to support the Air Force weather community on the Technology Application Development & Sustainment (TADS) contract located at the Offutt, AFB in Nebraska. 

The Senior System - VDI Engineer will support all aspects of VMware virtualization; configuration, implementation, management of servers in virtualized environment, and VDI implementations. The candidate also should have a foundation in Windows and network management skills. This position requires a mixture of engineering, operations, hands-on technical and support skills. Qualified candidates should have excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills. The individual will work closely with technical leads, infrastructure and operations teams and other cross-department teams to evaluate business needs and provide end-to-end technical solutions and manage, operate, monitor, audit, secure server Virtualization assets within an empowered, cross-functional team.

Successful candidates will demonstrate the following characteristics:

•        Growth Mindset
•        Self-Starter
•        Servant Leadership
•        Grit

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Assurance, or Cyber Security and nine (9) + years of applicable experience.
• Must have the ability to install and configure vCenter Server.
• Must be able to work with ESXi cluster servers.
• Must have experience monitoring the health of VMs operating in various data centers.
• Experience with VMware Horizon View, VMware vCenter, vSphere Client and Web Client, VMware Workstation, managing VMware Horizon user profiles and understanding VMware's integration with complex storage technologies.
• Demonstrated experience in all aspects of enterprise Windows environment operations and maintenance (O&M) and engineering.
• Experience with performing root cause analysis, risk identification, and risk mitigation.
• Demonstrated experience in a fast tempo ITSM support environment.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies (Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean, Theory of Constraints).
• Experience with configuration management tools (Git, Mercurial, ...).
• Must be a US Citizen and must be able to obtain a Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• CompTIA Security+, Network+, CSSLP, or equivalent.
• VMware certification VCP/VCAP and/or VDI Certification.
• Active Secret Clearance.
• CISSP.
• Familiarity with 557th Weather Wing.
• Familiarity with meteorological data formats like METAR, GriB, GriB2, and NetCDF.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery concepts and enabling tools such as Jenkins, Maven, and Ansible.
• Familiarity with service based standards such as REST and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Services (OWS). 
• Testing tools (e.g. Junit, Selenium, jMeter).
• Code quality tools (e.g. Sonar, Cast).
• Static scanning (e.g. Fortify).

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

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