Data Center Engineer - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Be part of our exciting team supporting a robust, world-wide communications network, providing office automation packages; document and information management tools; and collaboration, voice, and video tools in a secure, flexible, distributed architecture supporting a classified DoD IT system. Peraton is seeking a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Engineer to provide enterprise VDI services.

Responsibilities include:

Design, deliver, and optimize VDI Services to improve security, availability, performance, and resource utilization
• Review current VDI infrastructures, architectures, designs, and operations to identify potential improvements for optimizing system performance
• Document security, configuration, and performance benchmarks of VDI services.

• Provides advanced technical support in the research, experimentation, business analysis and use of systems technology including architecture, integration capabilities and database management.

• Develops the end-to-end vision and the logical design that translates into physical databases, and how the data will flow through the successive stages involved.

• Knowledgeable and practices a wider range of data administration skills, often in a Business Process Reengineering context.

• Participates in strategic data planning, including development and implementation of DA policies, standards, and procedures.

• Understands data from the perspective of data processing and in the context of different life-cycle phases.

• Activities may include data quality engineering, metadata consolidation and integration, metamodel development and maintenance, repository management, data warehouse design and data mining, data security administration, and formulation of enterprise-specific data metrics

Required:

• Min 8 years with BS/BA, Min 6 years with MS/MA, Min 3 years with PhD; 4 years additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
• Active TS/SCI clearance is required
• Proven experience with VMware Virtual Center (vCenter) providing virtual desktop machine environment
• Must have a current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III certification (i.e., Security+ CE)

Desired:

• Professional-level VMware certification desired
• ITIL Foundations certification desired

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.