Senior Systems Virtual Engineer (DES) with Security Clearance

Railhead, Inc. is seeking a qualified Senior Systems Virtual Engineer to join our Defense Enclave Services (DES) team at Fort Meade, MD. The selected candidate will support an extensive digital modernization program critical to DISA and Fourth Estate Agencies. You will support information technology discovery, optimization, and transformation into a centralized, operational enterprise. Responsibilities: •Perform virtualization integration with New File System (NFS), IP Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) and Fiber Channel (FC).
•Maintain and administer applications, custom monitors, and custom reports.
•Manage virtualization high availability/disaster recovery solution design and integration. Complete Virtual Switching (Vswitch) design and configuration. •Perform tasks associated with application networking ports and protocols, Information Assurance (IA), routing and Local Area Network (LAN). Manage user and group permissions and security design.
•Initiate security updates in accordance with Government procedures for directory services. Support evaluating virtualization and network consolidation.
•Perform virtualization integration with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012, SQL 2012R2, external storage devices utilizing LUNs, quota distribution and file sharing and installation on various server hardware. •Perform system integration with Host Based Security System (HBSS).
•Coordinate and manage overall system maintenance.
•Recommend and implement test sets to provide root cause analysis and resolution for alerts and events and resolve incidents in response to escalated tickets.
•Work with cluster file systems and other technologies to provide redundancy and availability for server farms and applications.
•Develop and execute software, testing, and validation procedures, programming and documentation.
•Design and customize software to optimize operational efficiency in cloud-based environments and develop and integrate virtual storage console.
•Execute data store design and management.
•Support virtualization capacity, performance design, and management. Qualifications: •Secret Security Clearance.
•Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of experience; additional years of directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree.
•Must possess Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) version 3 Foundation.
•Must possess professional-level certifications in one or more technology related vendor solutions such as Veritas, EMC Corporation, NetApp, or Tivoli, or demonstrate sufficient experience in lieu of certification.
•Experience with virtualization concepts, virtual and storage networking protocols. About Railhead:  Railhead, Inc. is a leader in advanced cyber solutions; cloud and managed IT solutions; engineering; and information-based solutions for commercial entities, law enforcement, and homeland security. We provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; training; logistics; and operational support services and solutions in support of organizations not limited to DHS, DoD, and the Intelligence Community (IC). We hire mission enablers who reflect our communities and proactively embrace diversity and inclusion, in order to advance our corporate culture, develop our family of employees into the best they can be, and in turn grow our market share throughout the industry.  Railhead, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.