Cloud / System Engineer (Journeyman)

3 days, 9 hours ago
Full-time
Senior
DevOps and Infrastructure
CWS

CWS

CWS Computer World Services Corp. is a leading IT service provider specializing in digital transformation and high-end IT services for the federal market, offering innovative solutions and quality services to government clients worldwide.

IT Services
201-500
Founded 1990

Description

  • Install, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot physical and virtual servers, Windows Server, Linux systems, enterprise applications, and infrastructure appliances.
  • Administer virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, Site Recovery Manager, and NSX.
  • Diagnose and resolve server, operating system, virtualization, storage, appliance, cloud-connectivity, and performance issues.
  • Support hybrid-cloud operations, including VPCs, DNS, load balancers, API connectivity, and certificates.
  • Apply, test, and implement operating system patches, firmware updates, and approved configuration changes.
  • Plan and execute component refreshes, migrations, upgrades, validation activities, and rollback procedures.
  • Participate in outage response, recovery, service validation, root-cause analysis, and escalation of complex issues.
  • Configure and test backup, restoration, replication, high-availability, and disaster-recovery capabilities.
  • Support infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code initiatives.
  • Maintain security baselines, RMF/ATO evidence, lifecycle records, system documentation, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • At least 6 years of relevant cloud engineering, systems engineering, systems administration, virtualization, or enterprise infrastructure experience.
  • Current professional certification in systems, cloud, operating systems, virtualization, or enterprise infrastructure engineering.
  • Active Secret security clearance or higher.
  • Ability to support after-hours work during outages, deployments, upgrades, maintenance windows, and component refreshes.
  • Experience supporting enterprise systems or cloud infrastructure in a federal or DoD environment (preferred).
  • Experience with Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, VMware technologies, and VMware Cloud Foundation (preferred).
  • Experience with AWS, AWS GovCloud, Microsoft Azure Government, or another Government-authorized cloud environment (preferred).
  • Experience with Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, PowerShell, Python, or Bash (preferred).
  • Experience applying DISA STIGs and supporting DoD RMF, ATO, IAVA, CND Directive, and POA&M requirements; relevant AWS, Azure, Red Hat, VMware, CompTIA Server+, or ITIL certifications are preferred.

Benefits

  • Remote work arrangement, with Chicago-area candidates preferred.
  • Potential reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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