Emerge Labs Network Data Center Infrastructure Specialist

Requirements

• Data Center Management, Data Center Services, Virtualization Certifications:
• None Experience:
• 5 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required:
• No
• Job Description:
• MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT
• Lead the day-to-day engineering, operations, and maintenance of GDIT's Emerge Labs physical datacenters located in Falls Church, VA
• Collaborate with other Emerge Labs Engineers, Architects and Cybersecurity staff to meet IR&D datacenter requirements to include compute, storage, networking and virtualization capabilities.
• Drive process and procedures for managing our physical datacenter and onboarding tenant customers and appliances
• Create and maintain datacenter documentation including rack and network diagrams
• Conduct capacity planning and provide leadership recommendations for efficiently scaling services over time
• Utilize networking and virtualization capabilities from vendors including VMWare, Cisco, Palo Alto, Dell, Google, Azure and AWS.
• WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED
• Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Infrastructure Specialist Principal must have:
• Education: Bachelor's degree (additional related experience may be considered in lieu of a degree)
• Certifications: One or more Data Center networking and infrastructure certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, as well as one or more Data Center virtualization certifications such as VMWare (VCP)
• Experience: 5+ years of related experience
• Technical skills:
• Hands-on expertise managing multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure and services using VMWare
• Hands-on expertise with datacenter networking and firewall capabilities from Cisco and Palo Alto. Additional expertise with SD-WAN capabilities desired.
• Experience with hybrid, multi-cloud environments where physical datacenters leverage cloud services from AWS, Google or Azure.
• Expertise troubleshooting and resolving hardware issues for IT infrastructure devices
• Experience documenting datacenters, including creating and maintaining rack and network diagrams
• Experience with datacenter capacity planning
• US Persons
• Role requirements:
• Primary work location is GDIT's Falls Church, VA Headquarters campus, where we have multiple datacenter spaces supporting Emerge Labs.
• Must be located within a 1 hour commuting radius of GDIT's Falls Church, VA Headquarters campus to support touch maintenance or outages and be willing to work onsite five (5) days per week
• The ability to lift, carry, push, or pull IT infrastructure equipment (servers, power supplies, vendor appliances, etc.)
• GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
• At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
• OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
• Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you'll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.
• #GDITpriority
• The likely salary range for this position is $153,000 - $207,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
• Scheduled Weekly Hours:
• 40
• Travel Required:
• Less than 10%
• T elecommuting Options:
• Onsite
• Work Location:
• USA VA Falls Church
• Additional Work Locations:
• Total Rewards at GDIT:

Benefits

Additional Information

Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations Job Qualifications:

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