Systems Administrator with VDI
Residency Status: ALL CANDIDATES MUST BE U.S. CITIZEN
Clearance: Must have an active Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain a Top Secret with SCI eligibility. Must be able to obtain DHS program suitability prior to starting employment.
Time Type: Full-Time
Location: Dulles, VA
Company Overview:
NAOVI (Novel Applications, Inc.) is a premier technology services company that provides solutions in the areas of Cyber Security and Enterprise Services. NAOVI is a business that combines experience, creativity, flexibility, pragmatism, and cost-effective solutions in order to deliver measurable business value to our clients.
Headquartered in Fredericksburg Virginia, NAOVI employs engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals who strive to be the best at everything they do.
NAOVI is an AA/EEO Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled.
Job Description:
NAVOI is seeking a Systems Administrator with VDI experience to support the design, development, and deployment of advanced cybersecurity capabilities.
Responsibilities Include:
- Working alone on individual projects while being involved in larger projects as a team effort with minimal supervision from the lead systems engineer
- Creating, updating, and maintaining master VDI images for multiple desktop pools.
- Experience or familiarity with performing system updates and patches via various methods including SCCM, Altiris, etc.
- Developing system architecture documentation, diagrams, standards of operating, Systems Administration Guides (SAG), Concept of Operations (CONOPS), System Design Documentation (SDD), and MS Visio for creating visual illustrations such as System Viewpoints (SV), etc.
- Supporting the operations and maintenance aspects of deployed capabilities including troubleshooting complex issues requiring escalated support, serving as a technical subject matter expert
Required Skills:
- Must have a minimum of 3 years of related experience administrating a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- 8 years of directly relevant and hands-on Windows or LINUX systems administration experience
- Experience with working closely with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI: particularly VMware Horizon stack), an in-depth understanding of the components that comprise a VDI environment including VMware Cloud Foundation, Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM), Application Virtualization (AppVol), and etc.
- Experience with and have the ability to perform the routine evaluation of VDI systems for improvement opportunities and make a recommendation for enhancement
- Experience with Cloud Technologies and VMC GovCloud.
- Have an in-depth understanding of how the VDI system interacts with and is dependent on other core IT infrastructure and systems
- Experience or familiarity with regional and geographical load balancing technologies to distribute inbound user traffic evenly between two (or more) different VDI sites
- Must have in-depth knowledge of OS installations, security hardening, and maintenance - Comfortable with building physical and virtual servers from scratch
- Ability to deploy and integrate new applications that may be requested
- Capable of quickly learning new applications that run on various operating systems for testing and deployment.
- Experience with administration and management of servers to include installation, configuration, optimization, backup & recovery
- Experience with performance tuning & troubleshooting, identifying, and resolving contention in CPU, memory, networking, disk I/O, etc.
- Familiarity of configuration management
- Maintain the security compliance and configuration management of the VDI system
Desired Skills:
- Experience working in an agile DevSecOps development environment
- Comfortable with multilevel security systems, and/or Cross Domain Solutions is a plus
- Experience with physical and virtual (VMware) RHEL servers including Red Hat Satellite Servers
- Experience with automation via scripting in PowerShell, Python, Perl or Ruby
- Experience with Active Directory, DFS, DNS, DHCP and Group Policy Management.
- Experience working in AWS/Azure via the CLI and management console
- Knowledge and experience configuring Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)
Desired Training/Certification:
Required Education:
- Bachelors degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field
- Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree-level education.