Senior It Systems Engineer Lazio

Senior It Systems Engineer
Roma
Lazio, Lazio

Summary Senior IT Systems Engineer

Rome, New York

Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate?

Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer's core culture?

If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you!

Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level!

Chenega Analytic Business Solutions (CABS) provides federal agencies and commercial customers with trusted insights into Records and Information Management, Administrative Solutions, Information Technology, Engineering, and Training.

Formed in 2017 to serve federal and commercial customers, CABS is 8(a) certified and has grown quickly into a leader in the federal IT and Training environment.

The Senior IT Systems Engineer shall provide expert-level knowledge and guidance on the design, implementation, and optimization of virtualization and containerization technologies within the organization for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Rome, New York.

Responsibilities Leverage deep expertise in platform visualization and automation technologies to support the development, deployment, and management of scalable and resilient IT infrastructure and applications.

Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to assess requirements, architect solutions, and drive innovation in cloud-native computing environments.

Serve as the primary technical authority and advocate for platform virtualization technologies, providing guidance, best practices, and thought leadership to stakeholders across the organization.

Design, architect, and implement virtualization and containerization solutions based on business requirements.

Lead the deployment and integration of platform virtualization technologies within existing IT infrastructure, ensuring seamless interoperability and compatibility with other systems and applications.

Optimize the performance, scalability, and reliability of virtualized and containerized environments through configuration tuning, resource management, and workload optimization techniques.

Implement security best practices and compliance standards for virtualization and containerization environments, including identity and access management, network segmentation, encryption, and vulnerability management.

Develop automation scripts and workflows using tools like Ansible, Terraform, and Helm to streamline provisioning, deployment, and management tasks in on-premise virtualized platform hosting environments.

Implement monitoring and logging solutions to proactively identify and resolve issues, monitor performance metrics, and ensure high availability and uptime of virtualized and containerized workloads.

Provide training, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to IT teams and stakeholders on platform virtualization concepts, best practices, and troubleshooting techniques.

Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in virtualization and containerization, participating in professional development activities and driving continuous improvement initiatives within the organization.

Code or modifications developed for open-source software applications under this contract shall be delivered with unlimited rights.

Implement capabilities on virtualized and or containerized systems built using automated processes.

All code implementing system configuration changes, or any manual changes shall be managed using the customer hosted installation of GitLab.

Construct a virtualized and/or containerized service infrastructure for the new zones as decided by the customer.

Author and maintain Policies, Processes, and Procedures within the organizations Strategic IT Management framework.

Maintain a neat, secure, and orderly facility.

Complete annual company and customer training requirements according to established policies and procedures, as required.

Record labor hours daily in an online corporate system.

Travel up to 10% as required.

Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications High School Diploma or GED required.

10+ years of related work experience.

DoD 8570/8140 IAT Level II or higher baseline certification required (CompTIA Security+, CISSP, etc).

Must be a U. S. Citizen.

Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility required.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Expert level training/knowledge of virtualization and automation technologies such as VMware vSphere, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenNebula, Terraform, etc.

The ability to manage a virtualized data center across multiple security classification levels up to Top Secret.

Experience with operating and maintaining IT systems in a DoD environment desired.

Experience with operating and maintaining IT systems in a research or academic environment.

Experience commensurate with DoD or AFRL Risk Management Framework (RMF) and hardening and operating IT systems accordingly.

Experience with the application of the DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).

Experience with data center level hardware including blade servers, high speed fiber optic-based networking, and Storage Area Networks (SANs).

Experience with DevOps paradigm for data center operations and automated system provisioning and configuration management.

Must be well organized, an effective communicator at multiple levels, and able to grasp system concepts and communicate their applications.

Must be capable of quickly learning new systems and associated software applications for proficient execution of tasks.

Must be capable of managing multiple tasks with time-related constraints in a fast-paced environment.

Ability to schedule and prioritize work to accommodate customer needs while minimizing the impact on current projects.

Ability to work with all departments to ensure network availability, security, and accessibility.

Possess strong problem-solving skills.

Ability to self-start and work independently or as a team.

Ability to travel up to 10% as requested.

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