Responsibilities include:

• Manages the ‘system of systems’ architecture development, partitioning of functionality among applications and components, and application interfaces/interoperability concerns.
• Systematically reviews all existing processes and procedures and implements innovative changes to meet and exceed service level agreements.
• Develops and provides recommendations for technical refresh efforts and opportunities to improve capability while driving down costs through opportunities such as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Hyper-Converged Infrastructures, automated patch management, and balancing as-is infrastructure with to-be requirements.
• Provides insights and recommendations based on industry best practices and cutting technology.
• Manages team responsible for systems engineering, security engineering, and workstation and server vulnerability remediation and patch management.
• Helps prepare plans for the development and installation of server according to present and future requirements.
• Provides expert technical support, administration, and engineering on all Microsoft Windows Operating Systems.
• Monitors, performance tunes, troubleshoots and resolves systems problems to ensure system availability.
• Troubleshoots and resolves systems problems to ensure system availability.
• Provides expert technical support with the entire VMWare environment.
• Leads and performs changes to OS, databases, applications, servers, storage, network, and backups in the data center as well as development environments.
• Manages the configuration, administration, upgrade, and maintenance of corporate and DR servers and related infrastructure as well as the Storage Environment.
• Engineers/assists in developing solutions aligned with security, uptime, and performance.
• Maintains awareness of system management and network monitoring and the operational support tools to maintain those functions.
• Works with server patch management processes and procedures to facilitate deployment.
• Provides for the management, testing, and installation of security patches and cyber security products.
• Provides infrastructure architecture recommendations.
• Maintains systems integrity through change control and problem management procedures and communication with internal customers.
• Accomplishes department objectives by leading staff; organizing and monitoring work processes.
• Attends and participates in team meetings, training sessions, and company sponsored programs as required.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Ten (10) years of progressively more difficult experience related to system/server design and administration. Five years experience related to server/system design and administration
• Knowledge of the principles, methods, and techniques used in physical and virtual server administration and engineering
• Advanced knowledge of and ability to use:
• Hardware (hypervisors, hyper-converged infrastructures, blade servers, switches, routers, bridges, firewalls)
• Software (multiple operating systems, virtualization software, virtual desktop infrastructure, SCCM/MECM, monitoring tools, IPv4, IPv6)
• Other common server/network and user equipment (e.g., SAN, NAS, Video bridge)
• Ability to solve server problems or server infrastructure issues and to manage the performance and capacity of an enterprise server environment

Required Certifications and Clearance:

• DoD 8570 IAM Level II certification such as CISSP, CASP+, CAP, CASPor equivalent
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification such as CCNA, CySA+, Security+, SSCP, CASP, CCNP, CISA, CISSP, 
• VCP, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Server+, Microsoft Server Certification, Certified Network Engineer, OR similar professional computing environment certification. 
• Top Secret Clearance (Minimum of a Secret Clearance)