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Title:  Sr. Network Engineer - Client: Commonwealth of MA - Location: BOSTON, Massachusetts  posted on 2013-10-18 07:24:57

Job Description:

 

Sr. Network Engineer

Location: MA

Client: Commonwealth of MA

Rate: $60-$65/hr

 
The Contractor will assist and mentor the desktop support staff and network administrator to further enhance the environment and the support required by the Center. 
The Center requires coverage during regular business hours (8:00 AM-5:00 PM) and 24 hours on call coverage continuously throughout the year. It is extremely important that the system is operating 24 hours a day 7 days a week. 
The Sr. Network Engineer IV will be responsible for all CHIA VDC Hardware Monitoring 
All the physical servers (Dell PEs), storage systems (Dell and ExaGrid), networking devices (switches, routers, hubs, etc.) in the server room are assumed to be under warranty or valid service contract with their vendors. The Contractor is responsible for tracking and ensuring that all hardware and software maintenance and licensing renewals are proactively up to date. 
In the event of unforeseen physical failure, the Contractor will contact the hardware vendor, while taking proper action to minimize the impact of the failure. 
The operational statuses of all physical servers (Dell PEs), storage systems (Dell and ExaGrid), and networking devices (switches, routers, hubs, etc.) in the server room will be closely monitored via infrastructure/network server monitoring tools during normal business hours (8:00 AM-5:00 PM). 
The Contractor assures that the VDC server rooms physical environment (air conditioning, power supply, walls, ceiling and floor, fire/water-proof, etc.) is safe and sound [but?] assumes no responsibilities for its environmental failures nor the impact of said failures to all the physical servers (Dell PEs), storage systems (Dell and ExaGrid), networking devices (switches, routers, hubs, etc.) in the server room. It is DHCFPs responsibility to arrange access to the office if off hours work is necessary. 
The Contractor will be responsible for all VDC Infrastructure Management: 
SAN Storage System 
Volume Provisioning 
Group/Pools/Members/Volumes Management through Dell Group Manager 
Group/Pool/Members/Volumes/IO/connections/throughput/utilization monitoring through SAN Headquarters
Hosts and Clusters 
The hosts and clusters will be managed using vSphere client against the VC Server 
Hosts are routinely examined and monitored to ensure availability and performance 
Guests 
Windows Guest Provisioning 
Linux Guest Provisioning 
Window Updates, Patch Updates 
Perform gap analysis on existing windows update and patch update setups 
Ensure Window Updates, Patch Updates to be performed regularly and/or according to schedule 

The Contractor will be responsible for Backup and Disaster Recovery management: 
Perform gap analysis on existing backup systems and job setups 
Optimize job scheduling based on the analysis 
Optimize space consumption based on the analysis 
Perform scheduled restores to ensure backups usability 

In the case of any software/data corruption and loss due to any unforeseeable natural disaster, hardware failures/software failure, data center environment failures and any other failures, the contractor is responsible for coordinating and executing all disaster recovery activities related to this event. 
The Contractor will be responsible for VDC Infrastructure Resource Utilization Optimization and Performance Service. The Contractor will prioritize work in this category as soon as possible. 
Storage System Optimization and Performance Tuning 
Volume provisioning status analysis 
Volume re-provisioning and migration 
Volume defragmentation 

The Contractor will be responsible for ESX Hosts Optimization and Performance Tuning 
Use existing or new Performance Monitoring Application for VMware ESX Server 
Apply Performance Tuning Best Practices for ESX Server 4 
Disable unnecessary services and excessive logging 
Linux Kernel Level tuning 

The Contractor will be responsible for managing the SAN Private Network 
Review current IP assignment and network nodes 
Review switch running configuration and VLANs 
Obtain performance counters 

The Contractor will also work with any security assessment groups including those done for PCI compliance. 
The Contractor will be responsible for VDC Windows 2000/2003/2008 Enterprise Servers and SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 R2/2012 Optimization and Performance Service 
Windows Server Guest vCPU/Memory/Disk space provisioning 
SQLServer Guest vCPU/Memory/Disk space provisioning 
Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 Enterprise Servers performance tuning 
With Microsoft Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Servers 
SQLServer performance tuning with Microsoft Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2005, 2008R2 and 2012. 
Windows Server and SQLServer performance measuring with Contractors VDCPerf with different VM configurations. 
Apply Windows Server and SQL Server VDC specific performance tuning experiences 



Qualifications at Hire 

Education: 
BS or BA degree in computer science or related field as well as a CCNA, CCNP, MCSE or MCSA certification 
Technical: 
Experience: 7+ years in server administration and 3 years data center administration minimum. General infrastructure experience with multiple technologies including Cisco networks, Windows servers, including: 
Cisco Switches, Firewall, VMWare virtualization, Monitoring Tools, SQL Database, Antivirus 
Eight or more years of experience in network and server design and architecture 

* Four or more years of experience in VmwareVSphere, and VCenter 
* Four or more years of experience with Cisco switches in a LAN/WAN environment 
* Experience actively maintaining and supporting Windows 2003/2008 
* Experience with DNS/WINS 
* Experience with Barracuda equipment 
* Application support experience with Microsoft Office 2010, antivirus 
* Experience with SAN/NAS systems 
* Experience with Microsoft SQL 2005/2008 and higher 
Experience with EMC VNX Storage arrays. 

Knowledge: 
Ability to express complex technical concepts effectively, both verbally and in writing. Ability to work well with people from many different disciplines and varying degrees of technical experience. 

Other Qualifications 
* Good analytical and problem solving skills 
* Excellent communication skills 
* Good communication skills 
* Leadership skills to guide work teams 
* Ability to work in a team environment
 


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