Job Summary
We are seeking an Enterprise Management Engineer to support a newly awarded, 10 year contract in Springfield, VA. This position requires a TS/SCI clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI polygraph.

Key Responsibilities:

Enterprise Management Engineer is needed to support Data Center Service in support of installation, administration, management, configuration, testing, and integration tasks related to Fault and Performance tools. Work independently as part of a small team of system engineers responsible for the care and feeding of a diverse IT infrastructure

Required Skills:

• Demonstrated hands-on experience and knowledge of Linux platform (i.e. RHEL, CentOS) including administration, management, and troubleshooting for physical and virtual platforms
• Demonstrated hands-on experience and understanding of proactive monitoring concepts, including experience configuring and deploying Network and systems monitoring (i.e. SNMP, Nagios, Splunk, SolarWinds, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience performing trend analysis on overall system health, performance, and capacity management with regard to utilization and growth
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain capacity metric
• Performs software upgrades, patch installs, firmware upgrades then test for functionality on a periodic basis.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the following infrastructure principles:
  • Fault tolerance, High availability, Scalability and Capacity planning, Data center organization, Backup / Recovery
• Create shell and Perl scripts in various shells to automate daily and periodic tasks
• Maintain server configuration baselines and configuration compliance against baseline/benchmarks
• Collaborate with Application Teams to perform system maintenance and patch management tasks
• Experience with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Ability to partner with other systems administrators, storage administrators, application developers, and network engineers to solve complex problems
• Strong understanding of enterprise networks including load balancers, routers, switches, TCP/IP, DNS, Local Area Networking, AD, GPO
• Fault event rules development, performance threshold management
• Experience with tools in an enterprise environment
• Event analysis
• Experience with one or more of security hardening, backup management, capacity planning, change management, or patch management.
• Strong understanding of enterprise networks including load balancers, routers, switches, TCP/IP, DNS, Local Area Networking, AD, GPO
• Advanced knowledge of systems engineering principles, methods, and techniques.
• Knowledge of the current industry hardware, software, and equipment.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with fault and performance management tools; including installation, configuration, and administration
• Experience with CA eHealth and/or other network performance tools
• Experience with any of the following: JIRA, Nagios, Python, Puppet, YUMRpo, Ansible Tower, and/or ILOM
• Familiarity of VMware ESX 6.0/6.5/6.7
• Experience with Windows System Administration

Education/Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree and 5+ years of experience or an equivalent years of education and years of experience
• 3+ years of experience with monitoring tools
• Active TS/SCI clearance and eligibility to obtain a CI polygraph

Benefits and Perks

Compensation

• Industry competitive salary well above market average
• 401K plan with 4% company match, immediately fully vested
• Referral bonuses up to $10,000

100% company-paid benefits

• Cigna OAP $0 deductible Medical plan for employee + family
• Vision and Dental plan for employee + family
• Short Term Disability for employee
• Long Term Disability for employee
• Life Insurance for employee

Flexible Paid Time Off Policy

• 180 hours (minimum) per year of PTO with additional time at manager discretion
• 10+ Company Holidays per year
• 6 weeks paid maternity and paternity leave
• Flexible work environment to accommodate commuting, family and personal schedules

Career Growth

• Company sponsored training and certifications
• No questions asked professional/business/technical book reimbursement
• Company paid training and conference attendance and travel expenses

Company Overview
Innovative Data Solutions (IDS) is a small business specializing in engineering and supporting mission critical IT infrastructure for the US Government Intelligence, Defense and Homeland Security communities.

Established in 2008, IDS has 14 years of experience delivering IT solutions to the Federal market. We’re a small company of technology enthusiasts and we thrive on exceeding expectations. We specialize in Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Enterprise Storage, High Performance Computing, Cybersecurity and Data Analytics. Across these technology areas we provide full lifecycle services: strategy, design, implementation and operations.

IDS engineers are based in Washington, DC and St. Louis, MO and are experienced working with US Government installations across the US, Europe and Asia.

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