Platform Engineer - Military veterans preferred

Secure our Nation, Ignite your Future

Become an integral part of a diverse team while working at an Industry Leading Organization, where our employees come first.  At ManTech International Corporation, you’ll help protect our national security while working on innovative projects that offer opportunities for advancement.

Currently, ManTech is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Systems Engineer-Platform at our South Burlington, VT office.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Provide expert guidance on cloud architectures to tailor strategies and validate frameworks.
• Design custom solutions to each customer’s need to navigate the complex feature-rich, tiered operating environments of cloud-hosted environments to meet business needs efficiently and cost effectively.
• Work within the USCIS distributed processing environment, including Cisco/Netapp Flexpod unified computing platforms, Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization platforms, VMWare ESXi virtualization platforms and their management suites.
• Manage and monitor technologies for potential optimizations or forecasting issues.
• Develop and provide services to customers utilizing technologies, including virtual machine builds and configuration, modifying existing configurations, working with customers on requirements discovery, utilizing proper procedures, and security protocols.
• Modify and install hardware in the field to include; new server hardware to host virtualization environments, upgrades of existing or new Unified Computing environments (such as Flexpod or HyperFlex) to increase capacity or performance, and physical relocations of said hardware as needed.
• Perform storage architecting of new and existing platforms.
• Design and implement redundant systems and policies for disaster recovery and archiving to ensure effective protection and integrity of appliances and stored data assets.
• Partner with business stakeholders to design next generation technology solutions, while continuing to provide architectural and engineering support to existing business capabilities on legacy systems.
• Collaborate internally to develop scalable, maintainable, consistent, highly available storage and virtualization architectures that meet business objectives and set relevant service-level agreements.
• Design and engineer comprehensive technical solutions based on business requirements and defined technology standards.
• Design the optimum storage solution based on business and technical requirements.
• Promote the use of virtual platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related field preferred. 1-3 years of experience.

• A minimum of two (2) years of experience with monitoring performance and throughput, setting baselines for acceptable performances standards while teams develop new solutions.
• Experience working in public and private clouds.
• Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced, rapidly changing, collaborative environment.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills required.
• Must have strong critical thinking, complex problem solving, appropriate judgment, and decision-making skills
• Experience with major cloud providers preferred.
• Possess superior technical aptitude and effective written and verbal communications skills.
• Proven experience with managing and using Dev Ops concepts.
• Capable of supporting the following tools or similar tools and activities:

  Bastion Forest for Administrative accounts

  Just In time administration

  Just Enough administration

  Privileged Access Workstations (PAW)

  Credential Partitioning

  Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)

  Group Policy

  PowerShell Desired State Configuration

  Domain Trusts

  Solarwinds

  AlgoSec

  Infoblox

  Stealthwatch

  Microsoft Active Directory

  Group Policy

  CSP Cloud Service Provider Integration/Development not limited to:
  • Azure
  • AWS 
  • Google
  • Salesforce

  Cisco Routing, Switching and Compute platforms

  Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS)

  Microsoft System Center Suite

  Analytics, Automation and Orchestration requirements:
  • Chef
  • Puppet
  • Ansible

  Hyper-V

  VMWare and NSX

  Citrix

  Privileged Access Workstations

  Jump Hosts

  Powershell

  Python

  Dell Compute platforms

  AirWatch

  Intune

  Centrify

  Mac OSX

  Windows Operating Systems

  iOS

  Android

  HP and Dell Workstations and laptops

  NetApp Storage

  VEEAM

Preferred Qualifications:

• MCSE
• Familiar with tools including: ServiceNow, GitHub, Jira, Confluence
• Experience with ITIL, DevSecOps and Agile concepts
• Experience supporting Government contracts

Security Clearance Requirements:

• U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain Public Trust and complete DHS Security Clearance
• Ability to obtain DHS EOD suitability
• Current DHS EOD highly preferred

Physical Requirements:

• Office work, typically sedentary with some movement around the office.

For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ManTech may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.

ManTech International Corporation, as well as its subsidiaries proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active Duty Wartime or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces Services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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