Principal Network Systems Engineer
Company: Watershed Security
Location: Arlington
Posted on: May 26, 2023
Job Description:
Company OverviewWatershed Security, a leader in Cyber Security
solutions, leverages its vast background in Information Assurance
(IA) and provides best value services to government and commercial
entities, through sound project management and high caliber
personnel.The Principal Network Systems Engineer will be
responsible for leading day-to-day operations management as well as
the design, implementation, documentation, and troubleshooting of
the enterprise server environment. The Principal Systems Engineer
must have the ability to manage server infrastructure related
problems, performance, and capacity as well as work hand-in-hand
with the Principal Network Engineer on network infrastructure
issues impacting the enterprise environment.Responsibilities and
Duties
- 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 implement 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 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 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.Qualifications -
- IAM Level II certification such as CISSP, CASP+ or
equivalent
- VCP, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, Server+, Microsoft
Server Certification, Certified Network Engineer, OR similar
professional computing environment certification. (DoD 8570 IAT
Level II Computing Environment Cert)
- Top Secret Clearance
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 5 years of experience related to server/system design and
administration; 10 years of progressively more difficult experience
related to system/server 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 -Benefits and PerksWatershed Security offers
outstanding compensation and benefits including company paid
medical and dental, short-term disability, tuition reimbursement,
401K plan with a generous match, 15 days of PTO to start and 10
paid holidays per year.EOE M/F/Disability/VetPowered by JazzHR
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