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🌽 Illinois – Remote

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⚙️ Systems Engineer

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DecisionPoint Corporation

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Defense • Consulting • Logistics

DecisionPoint Corporation is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business specializing in IT modernization and digital transformation for government agencies. They provide comprehensive services including cybersecurity, health IT, and intelligent automation solutions, aimed at improving operational efficiency and effectiveness while ensuring secure cloud migration. Their Centers of Excellence approach drives mission success by addressing the most pressing challenges faced by government entities through innovative technology and expert support.

📋 Description

• Install, configure, administer, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot enterprise servers and supporting infrastructure • Support Windows Server, Linux, and other approved enterprise operating systems • Configure and maintain physical and virtual servers, operating-system services, enterprise applications, and infrastructure appliances • Administer enterprise virtualization platforms, hypervisors, management servers, clusters, hosts, and virtual machines • Monitor server and virtualization availability, performance, utilization, capacity, health, and operational status • Diagnose and resolve operating-system, server, virtualization, appliance, storage, cloud-connectivity, and performance issues • Support integration of infrastructure appliances with network, storage, virtualization, identity, monitoring, logging, backup, and security services • Support cloud operations and integration among cloud, on-premises, continuity, and remote environments • Assist with configuration and troubleshooting of Virtual Private Clouds, DNS, load balancers, API connectivity, certificates, and related cloud services • Implement approved infrastructure configurations, technical changes, security updates, and operational procedures • Apply operating-system updates, vendor patches, firmware upgrades, security patches, and approved configuration changes • Test updates and configuration changes before production implementation when required • Support server, virtualization, software, appliance, and infrastructure-component refreshes • Stage, install, configure, migrate, test, validate, and document replacement components • Support lifecycle planning, inventory validation, configuration management, equipment refresh, and disposition activities • Maintain accurate system, asset, configuration, warranty, licensing, and lifecycle records • Support workload migrations, platform upgrades, hardware replacements, and infrastructure-modernization initiatives • Develop or execute implementation plans, migration procedures, test steps, validation criteria, rollback procedures, and outage contingencies • Participate in Outage Response Team activities • Support incident diagnosis, mitigation, workarounds, recovery actions, restoration, and service validation • Gather logs, configuration details, monitoring data, timelines, and technical evidence for incident investigation and root-cause analysis • Escalate complex technical issues to senior engineers, vendors, cloud providers, and other support organizations • Track restoration activities, technical dependencies, assigned actions, and corrective measures through completion • Configure and support backup, restoration, replication, high-availability, fault-tolerance, disaster-recovery, and continuity capabilities • Conduct backup and recovery testing • Support VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, Site Recovery Manager, NSX, or comparable virtualization technologies • Support infrastructure automation and configuration-management activities using approved tools and scripts • Assist with Infrastructure as Code implementations using Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, or comparable technologies • Configure systems and appliances in accordance with DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides and approved security baselines • Support remediation of IAVAs, CND Directives, vulnerabilities, POA&M items, and security-control deficiencies • Collect and maintain evidence supporting RMF, ATO, cybersecurity, audit, and inspection activities • Follow approved incident, problem, change, configuration, release, availability, and service-continuity processes • Maintain system diagrams, configuration records, build documents, operational procedures, field guides, standard operating procedures, and troubleshooting documentation • Identify recurring issues, capacity constraints, obsolete components, configuration risks, and modernization opportunities • Recommend improvements to system availability, automation, security, scalability, supportability, and operational efficiency • Work with the Cloud / System Engineering Lead, network teams, application teams, cybersecurity personnel, service-management teams, Government stakeholders, and vendors

🎯 Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field • Minimum of 6 years of relevant cloud engineering, systems engineering, systems administration, virtualization, or enterprise infrastructure experience • Current professional certification relevant to systems, cloud, operating systems, virtualization, or enterprise infrastructure engineering • Experience supporting enterprise systems or cloud infrastructure in a federal or Department of Defense environment • Experience administering Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or comparable enterprise operating systems • Experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, Site Recovery Manager, NSX, VMware Cloud Foundation, or comparable virtualization technologies • Experience supporting Amazon Web Services, AWS GovCloud, Microsoft Azure Government, or another Government-authorized cloud environment • Experience configuring or troubleshooting VPCs, DNS, load balancers, APIs, digital certificates, compute, storage, monitoring, and cloud connectivity • Experience integrating infrastructure appliances with enterprise network, storage, virtualization, identity, monitoring, logging, backup, and security services • Experience performing server, virtualization, appliance, software, and infrastructure-component refreshes • Experience supporting system migrations, platform upgrades, hardware replacements, and modernization activities • Experience supporting outages, service restoration, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action tracking • Experience with high availability, fault tolerance, backups, restoration, replication, disaster recovery, and continuity of operations • Experience using Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, PowerShell, Python, Bash, or comparable automation and Infrastructure as Code technologies • Experience applying DISA STIGs and supporting DoD RMF, ATO, IAVA, CND Directive, vulnerability-remediation, and POA&M requirements • Experience maintaining system diagrams, configuration records, build documents, implementation plans, test results, and standard operating procedures • Certifications such as AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator, Red Hat Certified System Administrator, VMware Certified Professional, CompTIA Server+, or equivalent credentials • ITIL Foundation or higher certification • Strong troubleshooting, analytical, documentation, configuration-management, and team-collaboration skills • Ability to support after-hours outages, deployments, maintenance windows, upgrades, migrations, and component-refresh activities when required

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement • After-hours work may be required during outages, deployments, upgrades, maintenance windows, and component-refresh activities • Opportunity to support an active competitive government contract bid • Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer