Data Center Engineer

Job description

Job Description

The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) - Data Center Engineer to provide infrastructure engineering for periodic data center refresh and/or new data center technologies, including future cloud capabilities.

- Design, deliver, and optimize Infrastructure Services to improve security, availability, performance, and resource utilization in the data centers

- Review current infrastructures, architectures, designs, and operations to identify potential improvements

- Analyze, refine, and document the requirements for transition from legacy hardware into modern data center infrastructure environment

- Design and build host & tenant environment with security hardened configuration for infrastructure services and design ongoing maintenance practices and procedures for infrastructure hosted service patching and updates

- Design virtual Infrastructure services to maximize available capacity of physical compute, storage, and network hardware resources

- Document security, configuration, and performance benchmarks of Infrastructure Services

- Design production infrastructure services that support highly available, private cloud, active-active data center operations, within the constraints of the environment

- Design practices, procedures, Automation and Orchestration to provision, de-provision, and entitle Compute, Storage, and Network resources

- Identify infrastructure security-relevant actions, tests, and key performance indicators for Information Dashboard and Reporting

- Design Service Catalog Items for Infrastructure Services for business and IT technical services

- Provides advanced technical support in the research, experimentation, business analysis and use of systems technology including architecture, integration capabilities and database management.

- Develops the end-to-end vision and the logical design that translates into physical databases, and how the data will flow through the successive stages involved.

- Knowledgeable and practices a wider range of data administration skills, often in a Business Process Reengineering context.

- Participates in strategic data planning, including development and implementation of DA policies, standards, and procedures.

- Understands data from the perspective of data processing and in the context of different life-cycle phases.

- Activities may include data quality engineering, metadata consolidation and integration, metamodel development and maintenance, repository management, data warehouse design and data mining, data security administration, and formulation of enterprise-specific data metrics.

The annual base salary range for this role is $154,000-$182,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package.

Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.

Required Skills

- Experience in Infrastructure/Datacenter engineering and integration for both physical and virtual infrastructure hosting one or more Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Solaris, UNIX, and/or AIX systems.

- Experience in VMware vCloud Enterprise Suite and hybrid cloud with multiple classified Government clouds.

- Must have a current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III certification.

About Nyla Technology Solutions

Nyla Technology Solutions delivers exceptional Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, and Software Engineering services for the U.S. Government.

Nyla embraces a forward-thinking and bold approach at every turn,  earning us a solid reputation of technical trendsetters within the industry.

We have a passion for developing solutions that have a quick and immediate impact on mission.

Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, our customers love how we tackle their most challenging problems and get things done.

If you have the unique experience and expertise we are seeking, along with the desire and determination to invest your time and energy as a part of Nyla’s team, 

Taking Care of All of You

Nyla provides a top-of-market compensation and benefits package.

And through our unique Nyla FLEX program, we custom tailor these benefits to best fit your lifestyle.

The Nyla FLEX benefit program is designed to offer you flexibility in the 3 biggest areas of your life: your pay, your leave, and your schedule.

PAY - Nyla starts with 4 weeks of Annual Leave plus 11 holidays and an additional day of Annual Leave for each year you’re at the company.

You have the flexibility to cash out your annual leave hours, opt out of other Nyla benefits, and/or arrange for additional hours on contract* (over 40 hrs/week).

There’s even an option to earn 1.3 times your hourly rate once you work over 1880 hours on contract!

LEAVE - Want to spend more time with the family?

Want more time to travel the world?

You can BUY additional annual leave for a total of 6 weeks of annual leave.

That’s up to 240 hours of leave plus 11 holidays! That’s not even including paid anniversary leave!

SCHEDULE - Does the traditional 40-hour workweek no longer fit your lifestyle?

With Nyla FLEX, you have the freedom to scale down to 30-32 hours while still enjoying the top-notch Nyla benefits you know and love.

It's flexibility that works for you without compromising the perks!

WHAT ABOUT OTHER BENEFITS?

 Nyla’s health care (medical, dental, and vision) is 100% covered by the company.

We provide 10% 401k matching - with full vesting day 1! Our Professional Development offers $5,000 per year to be used towards fees, tuition, or time off for your continued growth.

We even have a student loan repayment program and we provide 8 hours of volunteering annually so you can support your community, making your world a better place.

 

To learn more about Nyla's culture and our exceptional benefit packages click .

Nyla is an equal opportunity employer.

Required Skill Profession

Computer Occupations