Jr. IaaS Engineer - Virginia, United States - Apex Systems

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Title: Jr IaaS Engineer
Location: Hampton, VA at Langley AFB
Schedule: On-site M-F 8-5
Type: 12+ Month Contract
Pay: $55-60/hr (YOE Dependent)
Qualifications
Active DoD Secret clearance or higher
IAT II Compliant (CompTIA Security+ or equivalent)
3+ years of engineering experience working with large-scale infrastructure and hybrid/public cloud
Job Description

• Able to maintain services that include MS System Center (SCOM), System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Windows AD, DNS, Federation Services, Exchange/E-mail, MS SQL, or cloud provider equivalent services.

• Able to design and implement infrastructure provisioning automation, using IaC practices, and tools and technologies such as TerraForm, AWS CloudFormation, etc.

• Able to ensure cloud and hybrid services are compatible to enable seamless service offerings to customers.

• Able to monitor usage of infrastructure resources to ensure KR is providing adequate compute and storage capacity to meet mission requirements in all KR operated environments.

• Able to continuously monitor IaaS and PaaS uptime in all KR operated environments to provide uptime and usage data to the Government upon request.

• Able to respond to escalated technical issues from customers or other team members to resolution.
Able to ensure secure implementations of any infrastructure service or offering using industry best practices, STIGs, vendor recommendations, or as directed by KR.

• Able to ensure all necessary software and H/W requirements are utilized to full potential and make recommendations for any changes or updates for enterprise implementations.

• Able to Support the IaaS Architects as needed for project planning, troubleshooting, and implementation.

• Able to ensure highly available, secure, and easily accessible infrastructure for customer utilization.

• Able to ensure future capacity and feature requests are captured and planned for implementation.
Familiarity with hosting platform environments and able to enable hosting of any KR chosen platform such as Kubernetes.

• Able to provide technical expertise and maintenance of detailed architectural designs, plans, and documentation IAW industry standards. Includes detailed documentation on infrastructure and networks, configuration and layout of storage infrastructure, data sharing and migration plans, recovery plans, incident response plans, and backup and archiving plans.

• Able to provide on-call 24/7 support via on-call schedule or as needed; on-call services may include but not be limited to: Tier 2 and Tier 3 Help Desk support, incident response, and incident mitigation. The global workforce shall be utilized to minimize costs to the Government and maximize coverage.
Nice to have: VMW , AWS

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