Senior Systems Engineer
Sigma Defense Systems LLC
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Pope Field • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $115,000 - $135,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
DNSLinuxMS SQL ServerSQLVMware
About the role
- Senior Systems Engineer supporting design, integration, optimization, and maintenance of infrastructure across multiple data centers
- Collaborate with section engineers to build and configure customer environments across multiple data centers
- Responsible for installation, configuration, administration, and management of 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
- Responsible for 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, and plan for increased capacity and scalability
- Proactively identify and implement improvements, automation, monitoring, and alerting
- Deploy, support, and maintain Dev/Test/Production infrastructure and services in virtual and physical environments
- Monitor health and performance of all infrastructure and resolve issues using strong troubleshooting skills
- Support a small Datacenter and 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 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)
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 Factor and High availability
- Strong knowledge on VMware vSphere Networking, VLAN, 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 Service project experience with migration, upgrades, implementation, and patch management
- Solid understanding of migration strategies for transferring workloads between data centers
- Proven knowledge and experience with basic scripting on PowerShell
- Experience creating design documents and diagrams to support the system design
- Skilled in documenting all build and configuration procedures
- Ability to run systemwide security, compliance, and vulnerability scans and mitigate findings
- Experience with SQL server replication topologies
- Ability to work in a dynamic fast paced environment requiring team interaction and coordination across multiple IT teams
- Excellent communication skills including technical writing and collaboration
- Ability and willingness to continue to expand knowledge and experience; be detail oriented; and prioritize and complete assigned tasks within required deadlines
- Exceptional problem solving and decision-making capabilities
- Experience with Cisco virtual and physical network, and security concepts and practices
- Must be a U.S. Citizen
- Candidate must possess or have the ability to obtain an active Secret security clearance (a clearance will be sponsored for the right candidate)
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Information Technology
- 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
Benefits
- Dental and Vision Insurance
- Medical Insurance to Include HSA, FSA, and DFSA Plans
- Life and AD&DB 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Microsoft SQL Server 2019Microsoft SQL Reporting Services 2019database backupsdisaster recoverytriggersstored proceduresVMware vSphereCisco UCSPowerShell scriptingSQL server replication
Soft skills
problem solvingdecision-makingcommunicationcollaborationdetail orientedtime managementteam interactionadaptabilitydocumentationtechnical writing
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Information TechnologyDOD 8570 IAT Level IIVMware VCPVMware VCAP