Sigma Defense Systems
1246 - Senior Systems Engineer, Engineering Cell
Sigma Defense Systems, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Overview
Sigma Defense is seeking a
Senior Systems Engineer
willing to tackle complex technical issues in a collaborative environment. The candidate will support the organization to accomplish mission requirements and future-proof components, software, and policies. The role involves designing, integrating, optimizing, and maintaining a unique infrastructure across multiple data centers. The individual will frequently collaborate with various section engineers to build and configure customer environments across data centers. The candidate will have a strong technical acumen with a professional understanding of Virtual Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMware ESXi, Microsoft SQL Server databases, and related technologies. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled: Sigma Defense Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Requirements
10 - 15 years of relevant experience. Minimum of 10 years of experience with architecting and implementing storage, virtualization, and hyper-converged systems along with data protection and recovery strategies. Minimum of 10 years of experience in an enterprise environment involving VMware maintenance, troubleshooting, and performance analysis. Expert knowledge on data resiliency, redundancy factors, and high availability. Strong knowledge of VMware vSphere networking, VLANs, port groups, virtual switches, and their properties. Proven understanding of data center management and orchestration, as well as enterprise application environments. Monitor and suggest improvements to network performance, capacity, scalability, and security. Professional services project experience with migration, upgrades, implementation, and patch management in the desired technology areas. Solid understanding of migration strategies for transferring workloads between data centers. Proven knowledge and experience with basic scripting (PowerShell). Experience creating design documents and diagrams to support system design. Skilled in documenting build and configuration procedures. Ability to run system-wide security, compliance, and vulnerability scans and mitigate findings. Demonstrates a strong work ethic, adheres to deadlines, and can work independently and in a team. Experience with SQL Server replication topologies. Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment requiring team interaction across multiple IT teams. Excellent communication skills, including technical writing and collaboration. Willingness to expand knowledge and experience; detail-oriented; capable of prioritizing and completing tasks within deadlines. Exceptional problem solving and decision-making capabilities, including troubleshooting, resolving project issues, understanding user requirements, and developing creative solutions for process improvement. Experience with Cisco virtual and physical network and security concepts and practices. Must be a U.S. Citizen. Security & Education
Personnel Clearance Level:
Candidate must possess or have the ability to obtain an active Secret security clearance. A clearance will be sponsored for the right candidate. Education Requirements:
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Information Technology. Mandatory Certifications
DOD 8570 IAT Level II or ability to obtain within 6 months of hire. VMware VCP or VCAP certification in the Data Center Virtualization track is desired. Essential Job Duties (not all-inclusive)
Install, configure, administer, and manage Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and Microsoft SQL Reporting Services 2019 for a SolarWinds SQL platform. Facilitate, implement, monitor, and test database backups and recovery methodologies and processes. Monitor and optimize the performance of production SQL Server databases. Ensure database security, integrity, reliability, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions. Identify and troubleshoot database issues; analyze, design, build, test, and implement solutions. Implement and troubleshoot triggers, views, stored procedures, and data integrity constraints. Monitor file system space, database allocation; verify efficient use of disk storage; optimize space allocation; prevent out-of-space situations; plan for increased capacity and scalability. Proactively identify and implement improvements, automation, monitoring, alerting, and more. Deploy, support, and maintain Dev/Test/Production infrastructure and services in virtual and physical environments. Monitor the health and performance of all infrastructure and resolve issues with strong troubleshooting skills. Support a small data center and a physical machine test lab by troubleshooting issues, deploying, and configuring new hardware, servers, laptops, and desktops (Windows and Linux). Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues on Windows and Linux systems for services such as Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Group Policy Management, and MDT. Ensure High Availability, Fault Tolerance, Backup, and Disaster Recovery are in place and functioning for all critical infrastructure. Install, configure, and manage VMware virtualization environments (vSphere, SRM). Install, configure, and manage Cisco UCS environments (Central, UCS Manager, Fabric Interconnects, B and C-Series servers). Database Management, Databasing, Microsoft SQL Server. Preferred Requirements
Strong understanding of database schema object management, data modeling and architecture. In-depth knowledge of Virtual Cloud Foundation (VCF) installation, configuration, and management. Complete understanding of hyperconvergence, VCF and its physical components. Multiple VMware clusters using: vCenter, ESXi, vMotion, vSAN. Salary Range
$115,000 - $135,000 annually. Benefits
Dental and Vision Insurance Medical Insurance to Include HSA, FSA, and DFSA Plans Life and AD&D coverage Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 401(k) Plan with Company Matching Contributions 160 Hours of Paid Time Off (PTO) 12 (Floating) Holidays Educational Assistance Highly Competitive Salary
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Sigma Defense is seeking a
Senior Systems Engineer
willing to tackle complex technical issues in a collaborative environment. The candidate will support the organization to accomplish mission requirements and future-proof components, software, and policies. The role involves designing, integrating, optimizing, and maintaining a unique infrastructure across multiple data centers. The individual will frequently collaborate with various section engineers to build and configure customer environments across data centers. The candidate will have a strong technical acumen with a professional understanding of Virtual Cloud Foundation (VCF), VMware ESXi, Microsoft SQL Server databases, and related technologies. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled: Sigma Defense Systems is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Requirements
10 - 15 years of relevant experience. Minimum of 10 years of experience with architecting and implementing storage, virtualization, and hyper-converged systems along with data protection and recovery strategies. Minimum of 10 years of experience in an enterprise environment involving VMware maintenance, troubleshooting, and performance analysis. Expert knowledge on data resiliency, redundancy factors, and high availability. Strong knowledge of VMware vSphere networking, VLANs, port groups, virtual switches, and their properties. Proven understanding of data center management and orchestration, as well as enterprise application environments. Monitor and suggest improvements to network performance, capacity, scalability, and security. Professional services project experience with migration, upgrades, implementation, and patch management in the desired technology areas. Solid understanding of migration strategies for transferring workloads between data centers. Proven knowledge and experience with basic scripting (PowerShell). Experience creating design documents and diagrams to support system design. Skilled in documenting build and configuration procedures. Ability to run system-wide security, compliance, and vulnerability scans and mitigate findings. Demonstrates a strong work ethic, adheres to deadlines, and can work independently and in a team. Experience with SQL Server replication topologies. Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment requiring team interaction across multiple IT teams. Excellent communication skills, including technical writing and collaboration. Willingness to expand knowledge and experience; detail-oriented; capable of prioritizing and completing tasks within deadlines. Exceptional problem solving and decision-making capabilities, including troubleshooting, resolving project issues, understanding user requirements, and developing creative solutions for process improvement. Experience with Cisco virtual and physical network and security concepts and practices. Must be a U.S. Citizen. Security & Education
Personnel Clearance Level:
Candidate must possess or have the ability to obtain an active Secret security clearance. A clearance will be sponsored for the right candidate. Education Requirements:
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Information Technology. Mandatory Certifications
DOD 8570 IAT Level II or ability to obtain within 6 months of hire. VMware VCP or VCAP certification in the Data Center Virtualization track is desired. Essential Job Duties (not all-inclusive)
Install, configure, administer, and manage Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and Microsoft SQL Reporting Services 2019 for a SolarWinds SQL platform. Facilitate, implement, monitor, and test database backups and recovery methodologies and processes. Monitor and optimize the performance of production SQL Server databases. Ensure database security, integrity, reliability, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions. Identify and troubleshoot database issues; analyze, design, build, test, and implement solutions. Implement and troubleshoot triggers, views, stored procedures, and data integrity constraints. Monitor file system space, database allocation; verify efficient use of disk storage; optimize space allocation; prevent out-of-space situations; plan for increased capacity and scalability. Proactively identify and implement improvements, automation, monitoring, alerting, and more. Deploy, support, and maintain Dev/Test/Production infrastructure and services in virtual and physical environments. Monitor the health and performance of all infrastructure and resolve issues with strong troubleshooting skills. Support a small data center and a physical machine test lab by troubleshooting issues, deploying, and configuring new hardware, servers, laptops, and desktops (Windows and Linux). Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues on Windows and Linux systems for services such as Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Group Policy Management, and MDT. Ensure High Availability, Fault Tolerance, Backup, and Disaster Recovery are in place and functioning for all critical infrastructure. Install, configure, and manage VMware virtualization environments (vSphere, SRM). Install, configure, and manage Cisco UCS environments (Central, UCS Manager, Fabric Interconnects, B and C-Series servers). Database Management, Databasing, Microsoft SQL Server. Preferred Requirements
Strong understanding of database schema object management, data modeling and architecture. In-depth knowledge of Virtual Cloud Foundation (VCF) installation, configuration, and management. Complete understanding of hyperconvergence, VCF and its physical components. Multiple VMware clusters using: vCenter, ESXi, vMotion, vSAN. Salary Range
$115,000 - $135,000 annually. Benefits
Dental and Vision Insurance Medical Insurance to Include HSA, FSA, and DFSA Plans Life and AD&D coverage Employee Assistance Program (EAP) 401(k) Plan with Company Matching Contributions 160 Hours of Paid Time Off (PTO) 12 (Floating) Holidays Educational Assistance Highly Competitive Salary
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