G3 Innovative Solutions is an IT Services company founded to create innovative solutions to enhance the capabilities of our customers. G3 employees have successfully satisfied the technology needs of the U.S. Government and we continue to maintain relationships with those who have specialized expertise in the federal market. G3’s broad experience, focus toward desired outcomes, and commitment to Innovation ensures responsive and long-lasting results.

Job Description: G3 Innovative Solutions is currently seeking a Systems Engineer to provide engineering expertise in the analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation process of special initiatives and proposed enhancements and modifications for inclusion in Test, Development and Lab environments. All activities will ensure successful O&M of the Enterprise Lab construct to maintain the virtual, physical and Infrastructure lab environment(s).

Expertise in the area of creating, maintaining, auditing, and improving systems to meet particular needs, often as advised by the architect, testing software systems to diagnose and resolve system weaknesses and make recommendations for future developments.

Provide technical expertise, requirements development, build and implementation for complex to extremely complex systems in the subject matter area. Work collaboratively with other build engineers, system engineers, security engineers, platform engineers, automation engineers, and software testers providing system engineering services for core applications services, implementation, and modernization of customer applications (e.g., web-based apps, mobile apps) and discoverable enterprise services; the customization, configuration, and integration of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) and Government-Off-The-Shelf (GOTS) software products and services; end-to-end managed service capabilities; and professional services (e.g., help desk, network management and operations, program management, leased data circuits and transport, and operating equipment and facilities).

Duties and responsibilities:

Install new hardware and software making sure that all components (hardware and software) interface correctly with each other and the network – including new servers, backup drives, MS desktop/server operating systems, etc. To include base software and applications installed on servers such as antivirus, desktop/system monitoring tools, Serial Peripheral Interfaces (SPIs), system monitoring tools, etc.
Engineer and implement designs related to upgrades and enhancements involving all IT Infrastructure, servers, firewalls, circuits, cabling, Active Directory (AD), DNS, network monitoring tools, and other special systems.
Work with other teams and groups to resolve various outages, major network issues.
Develop technical briefings and reports for written and oral presentations.
Provide expert knowledge and recommend innovations to enable effective and efficient solutions.
Research, document, and report on upcoming technologies to determine applicability.
Perform long range planning to ensure technology refresh requirements are timely.
Write research documents detailing possible solutions addressing customer requirements to include pros and cons, estimated materials and costs, and high-level work breakdown schedule associated with each solution.
Provide detailed engineering plans for systems design and implementation. Systems may encompass multiple areas of technology such as local and wide area networking, infrastructure, distributed server architecture, operating systems, and applications.
Use server-monitoring tools to optimize, improve, expand, and reduce server and network capabilities and connectivity.
Participate in CAB meetings to discuss the build and release items with the team and find roadblocks, if any.
Develop, provide, and maintain testing artifacts.
Plan, Configure, Operate, And Maintain Test Environments.
Use server-monitoring tools to optimize, improve, expand, upgrade server and network capabilities, and connectivity as deemed necessary.
Review system logs to determine usage levels, performance, and security posture of systems. Report misuse or security breaches immediately to Network Management.
Install new hardware and software making sure that all components (hardware and software) interface correctly with each other and the network – including new servers, backup drives, MS desktop/server operating systems, etc. To include base software and applications installed on servers such as antivirus, desktop/system monitoring tools, SPIs, system monitoring tools, etc.
Engineer and implement designs related to upgrades and enhancements involving all IT Infrastructure, servers, firewalls, circuits, cabling, AD, DNS, network monitoring tools, and other special systems.
Perform server administration as outlined by the onsite Government Team Lead(s).
Provide weekly, monthly, quarterly reports and input for activity reports, balanced scorecard reporting requirements, FISMA/FISCAM audit requirements, etc.
Ensure that IT processing and storage capacity provision match the evolving demands of the business in a cost effective and timely manner.
Monitor the performance and the throughput of the IT services and IT components: tune activities to make efficient use of resources, understand the current demands for IT resources and deriving forecasts for future requirements, influence the demand for resource in conjunction with other Service Management processes, and produce a capacity plan predicting the IT resources needed to achieve agreed service levels.
Monitor service performance and availability. Manage service levels, systems, networks, service throughput analysis, and tuning and demand management.
Manage the components of the IT infrastructure and ensure that all finite resources within the IT infrastructure are monitored and measured, and that collected data is recorded, analyzed, and reported.
Develop knowledge of the current technology and its utilization, future or alternative technologies, and the resilience of systems and services.
Correct data spills and perform sanitation in accordance with established Government policies and processes.
Use Government provided tools to automate the deployment and removal, if necessary, of information systems security requirements (patches, updates, and configuration changes).
Create, update, optimize, and manage the standard server, desktop, and laptop images and the processes used to deploy the images to ensure more predictable application behavior, performance, simplify CM, increase security, and decrease system deployment times.
Create, update, optimize, and manage the standard network configuration and the processes used to deploy the configuration to ensure more predictable behavior, performance, simplify CM, increase security, and decrease deployment times.
Ensure updates and software changes are approved by the Government change management processes.
Update standard images and configurations to reflect approved configuration changes.
Coordinate with customers on rollout schedule and testing of new software and firmware releases.
Provide the Test and Development environments to enable application development and solution testing and evaluation.
Provide timely provisioning for the Test and Development Environments.
Provide large-scale diagrams depicting the “as is” environment, services, and dependencies. The contractor shall update diagrams quarterly with formally published revisions for display in operations, planning, and executive areas.
Provide server rack drawings/diagrams of virtual and physical devices. These diagrams shall include at a minimum: role, environment details, and other configuration items.
Provide Tier 2 and 3 services to include system administration, user account management and application services to the customers. The contractor shall develop test plans, configure the test bed in secured facilities, execute tests, and develop test reports detailing the results of tests.
Prepare implementation plans based on the results of testing and provide engineering services in the deployment of the proposed enhancements and modifications.

Requirements:

5- 10 years of experience
BA/BS or equivalent years of experience
Secret Clearance. TS preferred
Security + Certification (8570 compliance)
May require additional certifications in compliance with 8570
CSE – Core Infrastructure or MSCE – Productivity
VMWare
Azure Desired Experience
DoD experience
Understanding of Software Engineering and System Development Life Cycle
Understanding of Agile methodology.
Excellent communication skills
Experience supporting Enterprise Systems
DevSecOps Experience a plus
Server administration - Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (Microsoft 2016/2019, Redhat Linux 6+)
CM and Change Control
Excellent communication skills

Location:

Arlington, VA

Clearance:

Secret

Compensation: Negotiable
Benefits Offered: 401K, Medical, Dental, Life, Medical, Vision, and more
Employment Type: Full-Time
Clearance (Required): Must currently possess a Secret level clearance.