Senior Systems Engineer #201

Other Duties/ Responsibilities

• Participate in on-site and on-call rotation.

Required Work Experience

• Five to eight years of relevant work experience (GED), three to six (Associates), one to three year (Bachelor’s), one to two (Master’s).

Required Special Skills/ Knowledge

• Manages current storage capacity and ensures storage is available to support all computing environments; plans for future storage growth; monitors and confirms that system files and application products are successfully backed-up;
  performs necessary installations, patches, and upgrades.
• Works escalated issues from lower-tier team members. Mentors/relays information on solutions to train others.
• Analyzes new hardware and software releases for their impact on the Senate environment; tests new releases on Senate supported platforms; develops product configuration standards for use in the Senate environment.
• Creates, develops, modifies, instructs and provides technical assistance on business continuity plans and processes.

As part of our hiring process, we may conduct a skills assessment to better understand an applicant’s proficiency in key areas relevant to the role. 

Desired Qualifications

• Working knowledge of Windows, Red Hat, and various flavors of Unix operating systems.
• 3+ Years of experience in VMware, enterprise backup solutions, storage area networks (SAN), and network attached storage (NAS).
• 3+ Years of experience in Microsoft Active Directory (AD).
• Familiar with IP Address Management (IPAM) and Privileged Access Management (PAM)
• Knowledge of VMware vSphere and virtual host technology as it relates to architecture and design.
• Ability to assess hardware platforms and server hardware configurations to best support a VMware vSphere virtual environment.
• Knowledge with PowerShell, Ansible Automation and/or other forms of scripting automation.
• Knowledge of technology industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Knowledge of backup and or data protection technologies.
• Ability to lead assignments.
• Ability to analyze, evaluate, troubleshoot and resolve complex system hardware, software, networking and/or storage related problems.
• Ability to plan and conduct hardware, software and network testing and evaluation that leads to a supportable, production ready solution.
• Ability to communicate effectively.

Working Conditions

• This position directly supports essential services of the U.S. Senate. As such, this position requires the employee be available and prepared to work during government shutdowns, in inclement weather, on holidays, weekends, and during late nights to ensure essential services to the Senate continue without interruption. In the context of government furloughs, this position is considered excepted.
• The U.S. Senate network cannot be taken offline for maintenance during the workday, or while the Senate is in session. As such, maintenance windows may only occur at night, on weekends, and occasionally on holidays. Employees who perform systems upgrades, maintenance, wiring, backups, support our alternate data centers will have schedules that include working nights, weekends, and holidays.
• No exceptional physical demands.

Security Clearance

• This position requires that the applicant obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. Government security clearance.
• Applicants must be U.S. citizens in order for the SAA to submit your application for a security clearance.