Senior Principal Data Center Architect
| Company | Northrop Grumman |
|---|---|
| Location | Chantilly, VA, USA |
| Salary | $137400 – $206000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics) discipline and 8 years of related engineering experience; OR a Master’s degree in STEM and 6 years of related engineering experience; OR a PhD in STEM with 3 years of related engineering experience.
- Demonstrated experience in IT disciplines, some of which should be in a lead role
- Demonstrated experience with software virtualization products
- Demonstrated experience in strategic planning/roadmap development and execution for operational systems
- Ability to obtain and maintain CompTIA Security+ Certificate. This certificate must be obtained within a reasonable amount of time as determined by the company to meet its business needs.
- Demonstrated experience with modern virtualization software and releases (Azure, VMware or similar).
- Your ability to transfer and maintain the final adjudicated government Top Secret/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph, and any program access(es) required for the position within a reasonable amount of time, as determined by the company.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain an on-premise multi-tenant data center environment.
- Act as point of contact (POC) for the customer on all technical related issues, including Tier 1-3 support.
- Develop engineering documentation for system configuration
- Execute engineering projects on schedule.
- Generate and redline documented procedures and troubleshoot.
- Demonstrate good coordination, planning, and documentation skills.
- Implement engineering changes to the system as required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Active CompTIA Security+ Certification
- Demonstrated expertise with mission support systems.
- Demonstrated experience in IT process improvement through software automation process.
- Demonstrated experience with on-premise data centers, cloud services, and edge computing.
- Experience administrating of vSphere and vCF; experience with ESXi, vCenter, NSX and VDI
- Experience trouble shooting of VMware products in a production environment
- Experience administrating Container Technologies (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker) in a production environment
- Operating System Certification (Linux+, VMware Certified, etc.)
- Aria Automation (vRA) and Aria Operations (vRO) experience
- Scripting experience with vRO (PowerShell, Python, JavaScript).
- Experience administrating Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (or equivalent) or above.
- Experience administrating of NetApp Storage system On Tap and Storage grid.
- In-depth experience in Operations and Maintenance activities of IT infrastructure
- Experience configuring/maintaining Networking Hardware (Switch, Router)
- 5 or more years of experience with modern virtualization software and releases (Azure, VMware or similar).
- 5 or more years of experience as a technical lead