Hybrid-Cloud Infrastructure Systems Administrator

Leidos has a career opportunity for an Enterprise-Level Infrastructure Systems Administrator with deep experience with deploying, operating, and supporting Enterprise Infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience working within an Enterprise-Class Hybrid-Cloud environment with experience with VMware and commercial clouds. The Infrastructure Systems Administrator will perform a variety of assignments associated with Storage, Computer Hardware, virtualization software (VMware).

Primary Responsibilities:

• Think strategically to assist the management team in developing multi-year Roadmaps
• Ability to work well in a team environment
• Work with leads in other sub-systems, customers, and process owners to ensure solution integration
• Produce and maintain environmental server sub-systems documentation, including design documentation, engineering analysis, and capacity/performance plans
• Explore new technologies, and making recommendations for their introduction into the data center environment.
• Troubleshoot and manage problem resolution including root cause analysis.
• Adhere to company policies and processes including change control, security, corporate policies, and ITIL.
• Work in a Scaled Agile Framework and participate in Agile Team meetings, including providing leadership and performing Product Owner duties as required.
• Provide after-hours on-call support in a rotation.

Required Qualifications:

General:

• Bachelor's degree in a related technical discipline and 8+ years of systems administration experience in a large / global company. Additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Having a customer service focus is a MUST.
• US citizenship is required and able to obtain security clearance as needed.

Compute

• Server management utilities, such as HP OneView, Dell OpenManage Enterprise, HP Virtual Connect, and Dell OMIVV
• HP Proliant Blade experience and/or HPe Synergy
• Dell FX2 and/or PowerEdge
• Cisco UCS

Storage

• SAN and SAN-based Arrays
• Network-based Storage utilizing CIFS/NFS and Object Storage

VMware/Virtualization

• VMware enterprise-level experience. Examples of enterprise experience include: Distributed virtual switch and VMWare VSAN

• Other Enterprise suite products such as vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Log Insight, and vRealize Network Insight
• VMware VSphere Enterprise 6.x +, VMware NSX, VMware vSAN for hyper-converged platforms.
• Experience planning and leading VMware migrations.

Automation

• VMWare Automation tools such as PowerCLI, Orchestrator, and vRealize Automation
• Additional scripting languages such as Python or BASH

Desired Qualifications:

Cloud

• AWS and/or Azure Design and significant Operations experience

SAN/Storage/Networking

• NetApp, OnTap Select, Isilon, HP 3PAR
• Cisco and Arista Networking experience

VMware

• VMWare on Cloud

Other Desired Experience:

• MS Windows 2016 / 2019
• Red Hat Linux 7/8 and/or Ubuntu 18/20 experience
• Splunk
• Worked in an ITIL environment
• Formal system engineering process/educational experience also desired, such as INCOSE and COBIT models
• A possession of excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to communicate and interact effectively at all levels of staff and management
• Ability to estimate level of effort
• Ability to exercise independent judgment, develop relationships, and obtain consensus among interested parties
• Ability to develop peer networks across an enterprise to maintain technology awareness and to support resolution of problems.
• Ability to lead architectural design discussions, and carry those designs through deployment and into operations.
• Multi-cloud management tools i.e. CloudTamer, CloudFormation
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline deployments
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.