Elite Technical is seeking a Hardware Engineer to join our clients Federal program at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB). The Hardware Engineer will be an IT hardware subject matter expert in Window servers, switches (cisco/juniper/dell), rack/stacking, and storage to provide hands-on operational support for our virtualization, compute, and storage infrastructure and work in a team environment in migrating some workloads into corporate cloud computing environments as part of legacy datacenter integration activities. The selected candidate will work with stakeholders to migrate servers into the new operating environment as well as rack and stack equipment
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Designs, plans, and integrates cloud computing, storage, and virtualization hardware systems.
- Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, detail trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications.
- Provide Network Engineering and Data Center support to design, operate, maintain, secure, and document three developmental enterprise networks
- Isolate and resolve simple and complex network problems within the enterprise as well as design, installation, operation, application of security policies, vulnerability analysis and remediation, and create/edit documentation of current physical and logical topographies and any future changes.
- Work independently and across IT functional boundaries (other network administrators, system administrators, database administrators, etc.) with configuration, installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, upgrade and system management of network components and other systems to maintain maximum operability to meet critical mission objectives.
- Provide network administration support in terms of installing, configuring, maintaining security, installing patches, and performing necessary upgrades to keep all network devices up-to-date and secure to include physical patching and software.

Required Skills

- Security clearance status of TS/SCI is required. Established CI polygraph test is highly preferred, but can be obtained during the onboarding process.
- Must be DoD 8570 compliant at IA Technical (IAT)/IA Management (IAM) Level 2
- Experience working on a development team under DoD/DIA Risk Management Framework
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering with 8 or more years of practical Network Administration experience in LAN technologies; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
- 7 years network engineering / data center operations experience. Experience with Routers/Switches in Cisco, Juniper or Dell
- RedHat or Vmware experience
- Basic knowledge around Cloud Services environments is required
- 5 years- experience with Windows Server 2016, 2012+
- 3 years- experience in Dell EMC, NetApp, PureStorage, or Cloudarian storage and their management
- Proven experience with various routing and networking protocols such as: EIGRP, BGP, SNMP, OSPF, Spanning Tree, ARP, dot1Q, VLANs, VPN, GRE, subnetting, NAT, and Netflow
- Experience with data packet capture, traffic analysis, and vulnerability analysis and remediation