Senior Systems Engineer

Job Description:

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Systems Engineer to join our growing team. In this role you will be responsible for the design implementation and maintenance of our IT infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding and handson experience with various hypervisor technologies including management consoles virtualization platforms live migration high availability and resource scheduling. This role requires a strong foundation in Linux engineering containerization technologies and proficiency in applying DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs). This roles core responsibility revolves around empowering development teams with a robust platform that streamlines processes and enhances collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• Design implement and maintain a virtualized infrastructure based on hypervisor technology including host servers central management platforms and associated components.
• Manage create golden images and utilize automation to maintain Windows and Linux servers both physical and virtual.
• Design implement and optimize Linux server environments across physical and virtual infrastructures ensuring high availability performance optimization and enterpriselevel security standards.
• Configure and optimize NVIDIA GPU hardware for AI/ML workloads including driver installation GPU passthrough implementation and orchestration of GPU resources across virtualized environments.
• Implement and manage storage area networks (SAN) and networkattached storage (NAS) solutions.
• Develop and maintain system documentation including architecture diagrams standard operating procedures and disaster recovery plans.
• Proactively monitor system performance and capacity and implement optimizations as needed. Monitor the environment for performance metrics and alerts identify bottlenecks and implement effective solutions.
• Collaborate with other IT team members on infrastructure projects and initiatives using effective communication skills both written and verbal with the ability to present technical information to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Participate in an oncall rotation to provide afterhours support.
• Apply DISA STIGs to ensure compliance with security standards and policies across all cloud and containerized environments.
• Ensure system designs adhere to DoD security standards regulations and compliance requirements.
• Define and execute test plans to verify system functionality against requirements and validate overall system performance.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues in onpremises and hybrid cloud environments. Excellent problemsolving skills and the ability to work in an evolving environment.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior engineers and team members on best practices Linux engineering and virtualization platform management.

Heres what you need:

• 5 years of experience architecting implementing and supporting large infrastructures.
• Extensive experience with managing virtualized environments including hypervisor administration virtual machine management networking and storage.
• Deployed and managed NVIDIA GPUs in a virtualized environment.
• Experience with Linux administration and engineering to include but not limited to any of the following: installation configuration performance tuning security hardening scripting and troubleshooting in enterprise environments.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using tools like Ansible Puppet Chef or similar.

Bonus points if you have:

• Expertlevel knowledge of core Windows Server services including AD DS DNS DHCP GP and IIS.
• Working knowledge of VAST Data Pure Storage and Dell Data Domain systems.
• Experience with AWS services and cloud infrastructure management.
• Proficiency in DevOps practices and tools such as CI/CD pipelines Jenkins Git and Docker.
• Familiarity with Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and other cybersecurity frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience with Windows PowerShell automation and Desired State Configuration.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure monitoring logging alerting and performance troubleshooting.

Security Clearance:

• Active TS/SCI clearance