Senior Virtualization Engineer with Security Clearance

Company: Intelliware Systems
Location: Pocatello
Posted on: November 20, 2019

Job Description:

Overview: IntelliWare is a growing business with an immediate need for a skilled and energetic Virtualization Engineer to support a federal customer. This position is exempt. Description: This position will offer you a chance to support a federal agency by engineering all Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) design, deployment and maintenance of VDI systems and components. Responsible for installing, patching, upgrading, updating, and documenting the current environments; design, document and deploy upgrades, and provide on-site expertise for both Citrix and VMware VDI environments to meet the needs and support the missions of the agency. Required Skills and Qualifications: * Minimum of six (6) years of experience with designing and implementing virtual platforms for desktop, applications, and server virtualization solutions. * Proactively address performance and anticipated user requirements in both Windows and Linux mixed environments. * Hands on experience in implementing and supporting Citrix Xen Desktop, VMware vSphere, Hypervisor Management, Active Directory, GPO Management, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Deployments. * Extensive experience in implementing and supporting Citrix Xen Desktop, Application Virtualization, Load Balancers, VMware vSphere, Hypervisor Design, Hyper Converged Deployments, VSAN Administration, Microsoft SQL, Active Directory, GPO Management, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Deployments of 50000+ Desktops, and VMware VDI environments. * Able to design overall VDI solutions, conduct planning, requirements analysis, pre and post implementation support, training and maintenance. * Responsible for ensuring that the client's performance, security, user experience, reliability, availability, and all other functional and non-functional requirements are met. Maintain system documentation and assist with systemaccreditation and monitoring. * Engineer and configure printing between various classification levels and ensuring security of data for all VDI systems. * Engineer, deploy and perform O&M activities of Microsoft operating system baseline images for use on enterprise endpoints. Experience and understanding of DISA STIGs and internal agency security requirements. * Provide engineering, deployment and transition to O&M services for a broad range of current and future Microsoft applications and technologies, or other third-party tools that integrate with Microsoft products. Currently utilized technologies include but are not limited to: Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), Microsoft System Center Software Portal (MSCSP), and Microsoft Office products. * Create automation scripts and deploy orchestration and automation processes and products to support the FBI's VDI, workstation and Controlled Interface environments which are expected to provide reduced spin up / spin down times, standardized deployments, business process automation, self-service portals, user and customer experience enhancements, automated patching and maintenance. * Responsible for the engineering, deployment and O&M of enterprise server virtualization solutions and hyper converged server and storage solutions for in various VDI environments. Current implemented hyper converged technologies include but are not limited to Nutanix, Dell, and VMware. * Design overall VDI solutions, conduct planning, requirements analysis, pre and post implementation support, training and maintenance. * Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date to include inventory and patch levels of all systems to include hostnames, property numbers, IP addresses, enclave, number of cores, number of processors, admin passwords, certificates, and service accounts on a monthly interval. * Provide recommendations for future hardware requirements, as well as benchmarking and testing of hardware prior to FBI adoption. Hardware categories include but are not limited to workstations and components, printers and components, hyper converged infrastructure and peripherals. * Install, configure, test and maintain system management tools for all data center network components. * Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes * Develop/write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks, such as automated provisioning of addresses and VLANs with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). * Provide real-time reporting of provisioned and non-provisioned resources such as bandwidth utilized to include performance metrics for availability, performance and trends. * Citrix Certified Associate (CCA-V), VMware Certified Professional 6 - Desktop and Mobility (VCP6-DTM), and/or Nutanix Platform Professional (NPP) Education Requirements: ? Bachelor's Degree preferred (Additional years of experience may be substituted for the degree.) Location: Pocatello, ID Travel: less than 10% Clearance: Active Top-Secret Clearance Company Profile: IntelliWare is a privately-owned company founded to provide business and technical services to government and commercial clients. Our business philosophy is to hire the brightest, yet humble, people we can find and provide them with the team, training, and support they need to exceed our customers' mission requirements. Our experienced, cleared, and professional workforce receives compensation and benefits that are intended to be among the best in our industry.

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