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<h3><strong>Location: </strong>Washington, DC</h3>
<h3><strong>Job ID:</strong> 2212</h3>
<h3><strong># of Positions: </strong>1</h3>
<h2>Overview:</h2>
We have an immediate opening for a Sr. Virtualization Engineer to work in our client's Professional Services Organization.  The Sr. Virtualization Engineer position is an accomplished technical job function within Professional Services. 

<h2>Responsibilities:</h2>
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<li>Provide technical services to our Federal Customers on complex projects and lead internal initiatives when required.</li>

    	<li>Provide technical leadership to key customers in the area of Virtualization, Storage, and Networking</li>

    	<li>Serve as a project lead on technical deployments and customer engagements</li>

    	<li>Provide pre-sales technical support to Manager, Sr. Manager or Director Professional Services Delivery and sales in the form of developing Level of Efforts (LOE’s), providing presentations to clients and serving as a technical expert in client meetings.</li>

    	<li>Performs high level engineering duties to include network architecture, design, site surveys, vendor recommendations, and network policies.</li>

    	<li>Oversees the design and architecture and provides support of routers, switches, and security solutions across the LAN.</li>

    	<li>Plans, develops and coordinates the operations and maintenance of current and future virtual frames.  Troubleshoots applications, operating systems, server hardware, network communications and storage communication problems within the virtual frame.</li>
 
    	<li>Develop additional technical and professional skills through career-track curriculum and self-learning experiences.
    Provide support and leadership on internal Professional Services initiatives such as process improvement, best practices, and research.</li>

    	<li>Contribution to Professional Services objectives for revenue attainment.</li>
 
    	<li>Help identify and gain client commitment for billed work opportunities throughout the year.  Seek at least 70% billable time per month.</li>

    	<li>Support Manager, Sr. Manager or Director Professional Services Delivery in a pre-sales capacity to help sell Professional Services through new sales, add-on sales and lead generation.</li></ul>



<h2>Qualifications</h2>
This position is viewed primarily as a highly skilled position for professionals who have at least 8 years of practical industry experience as an individual contributor.

<ul>
    	<li><u><strong>Candidate must have an active TS Clearance</strong></u></li>

    	<li>A Bachelor Degree and 8 years of experience or a minimum of 10 years equivalent industry experience in one of the following technical fields:  Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or related technical discipline.</li>

    	<li>Candidate must have demonstrated experience in VMware Infrastructure (VI3, vSphere) (6-8 years of experience) including ESX3.x, ESX 4, vCenter, HA/DRS, vMotion, VCB backup, Server consolidation planning using Capacity Planner, Server consolidation (P2V) using VMware converter, Update Manager, Virtual Desktop using VMware View or Citrix Xen-Desktop is a plus</li>

    	<li>Candidate must have 8 to 10 years demonstrated experience with MS windows (Active directory, DNS, DHCP)</li>

    	<li>3-5 Years of storage experience is required. Experience with Brocade / HP Storageworks Fiber Switches, NetApp Storage, EMC Navisphere, and/or Fiber Channel (FC) / NFS / iSCSI is a plus</li>

    	<li>3 to 5 years Linux experience is a plus</li>

    	<li>3 to 5 years Networking experience (Cisco Routers (1700, 2600, 3800), Cisco Switches (6500, 3650, 3750, 2800), Cisco ASA  and PIX firewall, Load balancers (F5 BigIP, Netscalar) is required.</li>

   	<li> In addition to educational degrees, this position requires a minimum of two industry recognized certifications.  CCIE certification preferred or a minimum of two of the following (examples - CCDP, CCVP, CCSP, SCNA, Master ASE, CSE, NCSA, MCSE, VCP or equivalent).  Candidates holding one certification at time of hire will have 120 days to obtain their second certification.</li>

    	<li>This position demonstrates strong demonstrated written and oral communications skills.  The candidate in this position must have demonstrated successes in a collaborative and partnering with clients.  Candidate must demonstrate ability to listen critically, think quantitatively, and develop solutions to client business issues.  Candidate must have a strong understanding of business fundamentals in accounting and finance, project management, and management.</li>

    	<li>Candidate must have business expertise in at least one industry segment.</li>

    	<li>Must have high-energy work ethic and be available to work non-standard hours during peak season times. </li></ul>


 
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