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    Information International Associates Alexandria, United States

    1 day ago

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    Company Description

    KeyLogic employees 700 IT systems designers, developers, mission specialists and security professionals serving government, academic, and private entities from its offices in McLean, VA, Oak Ridge, TN, Dayton, OH, Morgantown, WV, Alexandria, VA, and the UK.

    Job Description

    Senior Linux VMWare Operations Engineer

    KeyLogic is currently recruiting for a Senior Linux VMWare Operations Engineer and Deputy Team Lead to support our Federal Client in Alexandria, VA with a hybrid telework arrangement.

    Description:

    The Senior Linux VMWare Operations Engineer will support the client's Infrastructure Services Division's (ISD) Operating Systems Operations Section (OSOS) by performing administration and maintenance activities on over 8000 RHEL/HPUX/AIX servers in use. Additionally, the candidate will have a secondary role as the Deputy Team Lead regarding the day-to-day tasks and operations of the team. The candidate should be a self-starter and one not afraid to undertake and lead a project from beginning to end accompanied with broad technical exposure is the ideal candidate. The selected candidate will work the daytime shift Monday through Friday.

    The servers supported are located in both production and lab data centers located at the client's campus in Alexandria, VA. Additional remote support is provided for systems located at the Federal Client's Alternate Processing Site (APS) located in Manassas, VA.

    Duties performed will include, but are not limited to, the following:

    Provide escalation support from subordinates and junior resources, including on-call rotation support.

    Ensure proper planning and execution of major projects and O&M (operations and maintenance) activities.

    Mentor and direct junior staff in the course of daily assignments and projects to promote a collaborative learning environment

    Troubleshoot hardware, Operating System, and software problems with Linux and VMWare servers.

    Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures for server builds, configurations, and scheduled maintenance activities.

    Provide suggestions and best practices for various activities and communicate them to stakeholders at various technical levels

    Install and configure ESXi hypervisors, vCenter servers, create data centers, clusters, add hosts, and configure their firewall, services and advanced settings.

    Setup and configure virtual switches, port groups, and VLANs in VMWare

    Configure HA, DRS and setup affinity rules on each VMWare cluster as needed.

    Perform storage expansion, migration, and reclamations on block storage from SAN, familiarity with boot-from-SAN on RHEL is preferred.

    Perform cyber-security remediation and server hardening as needed.

    Write custom shell scripts to poll server inventory for health and configuration data within the environment.

    Work on assigned change requests/incident tickets.

    Investigate and responding to alerts generated by the various monitoring systems in use at USPTO.

    Evaluate and implementing potential new tools and technologies.

    Provide vCenter permissions to users as well as creating folders, placing VMs under folders to provide access rights to certain usersgroups to be able to manage their VMs.

    Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot all issues that might arise in the VMware virtual environment.

    Install and troubleshoot physical and virtual server's performance and connectivity issues.

    Patch and update hypervisor's baseline using Update Manager.

    Perform Cisco UCS service profile migration.

    Maintain documentation for processes and procedures as required.

    Perform detailed analysis of incidents - utilize log management tools and performance data to author and submit RCA (Root Cause Analysis) reports following service outages

    Perform hardware repair procedures and activities.

    Work Experience/Skills Requirements

    The successful candidate will have experience in the following areas:

    7+ years of experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

    7+ years of experience with VMWare vCenter and ESXi hypervisors

    5+ years of experience supporting Tomcat, Apache, JBoss, Oracle, and MySQL.

    Knowledge of Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) or oVirt

    Knowledge of Cisco UCS and managing systems via UCSCentral

    Ability to write shell scripts in bash.

    Ability to write custom Ansible playbooks and run them across the environment

    RHCE Certification is highly recommended

    VCP Certification is highly recommended

    Experience in supervision of teams and personnel

    The ideal candidate also has experience in the following areas:

    Rocky Linux (or other Open Source Enterprise Linux)

    Red Hat Satellite 6 or Katello

    Red Hat Identity Management (IDM) or FreeIPA

    Foreman

    Puppet

    Powershell/PowerCLI

    HP-UX

    IBM AIX

    Windows Server

    A Bachelor's Degree is strongly preferred.

    Clearance Requirements:

    Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to hold a security clearance. You do not need a current/active clearance to apply, but must be able to pass a government Public Trust (SF-85) background investigation.

    We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

    Qualifications

    Work Experience/Skills Requirements

    The successful candidate will have experience in the following areas:

    7+ years of experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

    7+ years of experience with VMWare vCenter and ESXi hypervisors

    5+ years of experience supporting Tomcat, Apache, JBoss, Oracle, and MySQL.

    Knowledge of Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) or oVirt

    Knowledge of Cisco UCS and managing systems via UCSCentral

    Ability to write shell scripts in bash.

    Ability to write custom Ansible playbooks and run them across the environment

    RHCE Certification is highly recommended

    VCP Certification is highly recommended

    Experience in supervision of teams and personnel

    The ideal candidate also has experience in the following areas:

    Rocky Linux (or other Open Source Enterprise Linux)

    Red Hat Satellite 6 or Katello

    Red Hat Identity Management (IDM) or FreeIPA

    Foreman

    Puppet

    Powershell/PowerCLI

    HP-UX

    IBM AIX

    Windows Server

    A Bachelor's Degree is strongly preferred.

    Additional Information
    • Applicant selected will need to be a U.S. citizen and subject to a government background investigation.
    • KeyLogic is proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.


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