GDIT Emerge Labs Principal Infrastructure Specialist

Emerge Labs Principal Infrastructure Specialist

As an Emerge Labs Principal Infrastructure Specialist, the work you'll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of our Federal, Intelligence and Defense customers. You will play a crucial role in supporting GDIT's ability to conduct internal research and development (IR&D) building Digital Accelerators, Platforms and Mission Solutions within Emerge Labs. Emerge Labs is a multi-tenant, hybrid, multi-cloud lab environment with physical datacenter spaces located at our Falls Church, VA Headquarters campus. In this role, you will:

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

Lead the day-to-day engineering, operations, and maintenance of GDIT's Emerge Labs physical datacenters located in Falls Church, VA

Collaborate with other Emerge Labs Engineers, Architects and Cybersecurity staff to meet IR&D datacenter requirements to include compute, storage, networking and virtualization capabilities.

Drive process and procedures for managing our physical datacenter and onboarding tenant customers and appliances

Create and maintain datacenter documentation including rack and network diagrams

Conduct capacity planning and provide leadership recommendations for efficiently scaling services over time

Utilize networking and virtualization capabilities from vendors including VMWare, Cisco, Palo Alto, Dell, Google, Azure and AWS.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Infrastructure Specialist Principal must have:

Education: Bachelor's degree (additional related experience may be considered in lieu of a degree)

Certifications: One or more Data Center networking and infrastructure certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, as well as one or more Data Center virtualization certifications such as VMWare (VCP)

Experience: 5+ years of related experience

Technical skills:

• Hands-on expertise managing multi-tenant, virtualized infrastructure and services using VMWare
• Hands-on expertise with datacenter networking and firewall capabilities from Cisco and Palo Alto. Additional expertise with SD-WAN capabilities desired.
• Experience with hybrid, multi-cloud environments where physical datacenters leverage cloud services from AWS, Google or Azure.
• Expertise troubleshooting and resolving hardware issues for IT infrastructure devices
• Experience documenting datacenters, including creating and maintaining rack and network diagrams
• Experience with datacenter capacity planning

US Persons

Role requirements:

• Primary work location is GDIT's Falls Church, VA Headquarters campus, where we have multiple datacenter spaces supporting Emerge Labs.
• Must be located within a 1 hour commuting radius of GDIT's Falls Church, VA Headquarters campus to support touch maintenance or outages and be willing to work onsite five (5) days per week
• The ability to lift, carry, push, or pull IT infrastructure equipment (servers, power supplies, vendor appliances, etc.)

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE

At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do. Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Explore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you'll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.

The likely salary range for this position is $153,000 - $207,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Travel Required: Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options: Onsite

Work Location: USA VA Falls Church

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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