• Position: Systems Engineer

• Location: National Military Command Center (NMCC), Pentagon

• Work Location: 100% onsite

• Hours: Monday–Friday, core hours between 6:00 AM–4:00 PM

• Citizenship: Must be a U.S. Citizen

• Required Security Clearance: TS/SCI

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Required Qualifications

Experience

• Minimum of 4 years of overall experience.

• At least 3 years of specialized experience administering computer systems.

• Experience operating or supporting:

  • Large-scale computer systems

  • Multi-server local area networks

  • Client/server environments

• Experience with:

  • Systems administration

  • Systems engineering

  • Systems architecture

  • Systems integration

  • Hardware/software configuration management

  • System optimization

  • Resource utilization

  • Capacity analysis and planning

  • Server/data migrations

  • Technology refreshes

  • System upgrades

  • Troubleshooting

  • Requirements management

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Education

• Bachelor’s degree in:

  • Computer Science / Computer Systems

  • Information Systems / Information Technology

  • Engineering / Engineering Technology

  • Software Engineering / Programming

  • Management

  • Natural Sciences

  • Social Sciences

  • Mathematics

  • Business / Finance

  • Related discipline

Education / Experience Substitution

• Master’s degree in a related discipline plus:

  • 3 years general experience

  • At least 2 years specialized experience

OR

• No degree plus:

  • 8 years general experience

  • At least 6 years specialized experience

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Required Certification

• Must possess at least one DoD IAT Level II certification, including:

  • Security+ CE

  • CCNA Security

  • CySA+

  • GICSP

  • GSEC

  • CND

  • SSCP

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VMware / Virtualization

• Extensive hands-on experience building and managing VMware environments.

• Extensive experience with:

  • VMware ESXi

  • VMware vSphere 7.x / 8.x

  • VMware vCenter

  • VMware clusters

• Experience building VMware environments from the ground up.

• Experience configuring:

  • VMware High Availability (HA)

  • Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

  • Host networking

  • Virtual switches

  • Distributed switches

  • Datastores

  • Cluster resources

• Experience implementing and managing enterprise VMware deployments.

• Experience supporting VMware clusters across multi-server enterprise networks.

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Dell Server Infrastructure

• Hands-on experience deploying Dell PowerEdge R770 servers.

• Experience with:

  • Server racking

  • Power cabling

  • Network cabling

  • Initial server configuration

  • Bare-metal deployment

  • ESXi hypervisor installation and configuration

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SAN / Enterprise Storage

• Experience integrating servers with Dell PowerVault ME5 Series SAN storage arrays or comparable enterprise SAN infrastructure.

• Experience with:

  • Fiber-optic storage connectivity

  • Direct-Attach Copper (DAC)

  • Isolated backend storage fabrics

  • Block-level shared storage

  • iSCSI

  • Dedicated storage VLANs

  • Storage multipathing

  • Redundant storage paths

  • Jumbo Frames

  • MTU 9000

  • VMware datastores

  • Shared storage architectures

• Ability to design and maintain resilient host-to-array connectivity.

• Experience isolating storage traffic from production network traffic.

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Hyper-V to VMware Migration

• Proven experience performing physical and/or virtual server migrations.

• Experience performing migrations between virtualization platforms.

• Experience migrating Microsoft Hyper-V workloads to VMware vSphere.

• Experience planning and executing migrations while minimizing:

  • Downtime

  • Data loss

  • Application disruption

  • User impact

• Experience validating systems following migration.

• Experience migrating workloads into VMware clustered SAN environments.

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Windows Server / Active Directory

• Senior-level experience administering:

  • Windows Server 2019

  • Windows Server 2022

  • Active Directory

  • Group Policy Objects

• Experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting:

  • Windows domain environments

  • Organizational Units

  • Group Policy

  • Security policies

  • Security baselines

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Linux

• Experience administering:

  • Red Hat Linux

  • CentOS Linux

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Cybersecurity / DISA STIG

• Direct experience hardening systems in accordance with DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).

• Experience hardening:

  • Windows Server

  • Red Hat Linux

  • CentOS Linux

• Understanding of:

  • DoD cybersecurity requirements

  • Cybersecurity risk management

  • System security baselines

  • Security compliance

• Ability to work closely with cybersecurity teams to identify and minimize risk.

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Veeam Backup & Replication

• Extensive hands-on experience with Veeam Backup & Replication.

• Experience designing and managing enterprise backup environments.

• Experience configuring:

  • Backup Jobs

  • Backup Copy Jobs

  • Backup repositories

  • Secondary/offsite repositories

  • Restore processes

  • Disaster recovery processes

• Experience protecting:

  • Virtual machines

  • File servers

  • Databases

  • Large file shares

• Experience supporting VMware-hosted systems protected by Veeam.

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Systems Design & Integration

• Experience designing solutions for complex enterprise environments.

• Experience integrating mission-critical systems.

• Ability to work directly with third-party vendors to:

  • Evaluate solutions

  • Develop integration plans

  • Implement IT solutions

• Experience establishing baseline hardware/software configurations.

• Experience developing solutions based on system and mission requirements.

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Engineering & Technical Documentation

• Experience drafting and reviewing Engineering Installation Plans (EIPs).

• Experience creating and maintaining:

  • Standard Operating Procedures

  • Technical documentation

  • System documentation

  • Reports

  • Presentation slide decks

  • Troubleshooting documentation

  • Knowledge-base documentation

• Experience documenting technical work in Remedy or comparable ticketing systems.

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Troubleshooting

• Strong experience identifying and resolving:

  • Server issues

  • Application issues

  • Infrastructure problems

  • System integration issues

• Ability to take a systematic troubleshooting approach.

• Experience documenting resolutions to recurring technical issues.

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Testing

• Experience developing, executing, and documenting:

  • Test plans

  • Test schedules

  • Scripted tasks

• Experience testing systems for:

  • Availability

  • Reliability

  • Security

  • System protection

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Project / Requirements Management

• Experience developing:

  • Project schedules

  • Timelines

  • Implementation plans

  • Milestones

• Experience managing multiple technical efforts simultaneously.

• Ability to adapt to changing:

  • Technical requirements

  • Project priorities

  • Mission requirements

  • Implementation plans

• Experience tracking and reporting project progress.

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Communication & Collaboration

• Ability to work effectively with:

  • Systems Administrators

  • Systems Engineers

  • Cybersecurity teams

  • Multimedia Engineers

  • Telecommunications Engineers

  • Third-party vendors

  • Government personnel

  • DoD personnel

• Ability to provide technical status updates to leadership and stakeholders.

• Ability to brief:

  • Technical issues

  • Problems

  • Risks

  • Solutions

  • Project status

• Ability to explain complex technical issues to non-technical personnel.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

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Desired Qualifications

VMware Cloud Foundation / SDDC

• Experience with or strong knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).

• VMware Cloud Foundation certification or active pursuit of certification, including:

  • VCF Professional

  • VCF Advanced

  • VCF Specialist

  • Comparable current VMware/Broadcom certification

• Understanding of Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) architecture.

• Experience or knowledge involving:

  • Infrastructure automation

  • Lifecycle management

  • Standardized architecture frameworks

  • Automated patching

  • Standardized patch baselines

  • Software-defined compute

  • Software-defined storage

  • Software-defined networking

• Knowledge of:

  • vSphere

  • vSAN

  • NSX

• Experience applying VCF concepts to:

  • Secure environments

  • Multi-tenant environments

  • Multi-site environments

  • DoD or military enclaves

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Advanced VMware

• Experience with VMware Fault Tolerance (FT).

• Advanced experience designing and scaling VMware HA/DRS environments.

• Extensive experience building VMware environments from scratch.

• Advanced VMware architecture and engineering experience.

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Advanced SAN / Clustered Storage

• Experience configuring:

  • Clustered VMDKs

  • SCSI Bus Sharing

  • Physical SCSI Bus Sharing

  • Shared-disk architectures

  • VMware-hosted clustered databases

• Advanced experience with Dell PowerVault ME5 or similar SAN infrastructure.

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Large-Scale Veeam Environments

• Experience protecting large workloads in the 10–20 TB range or larger.

• Advanced experience with:

  • Backup Copy Jobs

  • Multiple repositories

  • Offsite backups

  • Enterprise disaster recovery

  • Large database and file-share protection

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Application Failover & Disaster Recovery

• Experience designing disaster recovery solutions for tightly integrated applications.

• Experience supporting environments where:

  • SQL databases

  • Management applications

  • Supporting services
    reside within the same VM or tightly integrated system.

• Experience planning coordinated application failover.

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Licensing Preservation

• Knowledge of how VM migration and failover can affect node-locked application licensing.

• Understanding of:

  • Static MAC addresses

  • BIOS UUIDs

  • VM UUIDs

  • Virtual hardware identifiers

  • Node-locked licensing

• Experience preserving application licensing during:

  • VM migration

  • Cluster failover

  • Disaster recovery

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Physical Security / Edge Systems

• Familiarity with AMAG Symmetry or comparable mission-critical physical-security systems.

• Understanding of:

  • Access-control systems

  • Edge-device resiliency

  • Local databases

  • Cached configurations

  • Distributed processing

  • Operation during temporary server outages

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Additional Desired Experience

• Security+ CE preferred among acceptable IAT Level II certifications.

• Strong experience supporting mission-critical DoD systems.

• Experience supporting highly secure or classified environments.

• Experience with agile system integration and rapidly changing mission requirements.