Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer / Systems & Storage Administrator

The Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer / Systems & Storage Administrator will help safeguard IT infrastructure by combining proactive security practices, incident-prevention focus, and hands-on administration across network, storage, virtualization, and disaster recovery capabilities in a hybrid environment serving the DMV area.

Location and Job Type

• Location: Washington, DC (hybrid remote), 20024
• Job Type: Contract
• Expected Hours: 40.0 hours per week

Compensation

• Rate: USD 80 to 100 per hour

Responsibilities

• Identify network problems and recommend improvements to support optional performance.
• Monitor and analyze data traffic patterns within the OCFO Network infrastructure.
• Improve security posture and stay current on the latest security threats, including worms and malware, with guidance on deterrence.
• Enhance network reliability through the actions taken across monitoring, analysis, and remediation.
• Develop strategic systems architecture plans.
• Manage storage infrastructure using NetApp Storage, including virtualization/arrays and storage technologies such as FC/FCOE, NFS, and iSCSI.
• Design and administer VMware Infrastructure, including integration with SAN for VMotion and multi-site administration using VMware SRM.
• Apply advanced disaster recovery and business continuity processes and tools.
• Administer Active Directory services while maintaining operational stability and ongoing maintenance.
• Design and build solutions using on-premises computer, networking, and storage technologies with Azure cloud participation; cloud engineering leads the design and support of large-scale projects.
• Configure routers, switches, firewalls, and other appliances in alignment with OCFO security standards.
• Monitor perimeter security measures to help prevent breaches and safeguard information.
• Determine enterprise information assurance and security standards.
• Develop and implement information assurance/security standards and procedures.
• Coordinate, develop, and evaluate security programs; recommend information assurance/security solutions that meet customer requirements.
• Identify, report, and resolve security violations.
• Establish and meet information assurance and security requirements based on analysis of user, policy, regulatory, and resource demands.
• Support customers at the highest level for development and implementation of doctrine and policies.
• Apply specialized security know-how to government and commercial common user systems as well as dedicated special purpose systems.
• Perform analysis, design, and development of security features for system architectures.
• Analyze and define security requirements for computer systems, including mainframes, workstations, and personal computers.
• Design, develop, engineer, and implement solutions that meet security requirements.
• Provide integration and implementation of computer system security solutions.
• Analyze general information assurance technical problems and provide basic engineering and technical support to address them.
• Conduct vulnerability and risk analyses of computer systems and applications across all phases of the system development life cycle.
• Ensure information systems remain functional and secure.

Requirements

• 16+ years developing, maintaining, and recommending enhancements to IS policies/requirements (Required)
• 16+ years performing vulnerability/risk analyses of computer systems and applications (Required)
• 16+ years identifying, reporting, and resolving security violations (Required)
• 16+ years identifying and troubleshooting Windows server operating systems (Required)
• Windows 2016 AD Enterprise troubleshooting experience (Required)
• Knowledge of on-premises and cloud security productions (Required)
• Good understanding of IP Networks/Security (Required)
• Extensive experience troubleshooting NetApp SAN (Required)
• Hands-on experience managing storage on VMware ESXi (Required)
• In-depth knowledge of SAN replication and Disaster Recovery (Highly Desired)
• VMware Site Recovery Manager experience (Highly Desired)
• Excellent understanding of troubleshooting IT infrastructure (Highly Desired)
• Cloud-Azure (Highly Desired)
• Complex Enterprise-level projects experience (Required)
• Disaster Recovery & Avoidance planning experience (Required)
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience (Required). (20 years is stated as equivalent.)
• Master’s Degree in IT or related field (Highly desired)
• Security certifications: CISSP, Security+, CEH (Required)

Minimum Experience Details (Stated)

• Develop, maintain, recommend IS policy enhancements: 10 years (Required)
• Vulnerability/risk analyses of computer applications: 10 years (Required)
• Identify, report, and resolve security violations: 10 years (Required)
• Windows 2016 AD Enterprise troubleshooting: 10 years (Required)
• Hands-on storage management on VMware ESXi: 10 years (Required)
• Good understanding of IP Networks/Security: 10 years (Required)
• Complex Enterprise-level projects: 5 years (Required)
• Extensive troubleshooting NetApp SAN: 6 years (Required)
• SAN replication and Disaster Recovery: 10 years (Required)
• VMware Site Recovery Manager: 5 years (Required)
• Troubleshooting IT infrastructure: 5 years (Highly Desired)
• Azure Cloud: 10 years (Required)

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience (Required)
• Master’s Degree in IT or related field (Highly desired)

Technologies

• NetApp Storage
• FC, FCOE
• NFS, iSCSI
• VMware Infrastructure
• VMotion
• VMware SRM
• Azure cloud
• Routers, Switches, Firewalls
• Active Directory
• Windows server operating systems
• Windows 2016 AD Enterprise
• VMware ESXi
• VMware Site Recovery Manager
• SAN replication
• Disaster Recovery