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Data Center Engineer (VDI)

Annapolis Junction, MD, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 2 Oct 2025

About the role

Our Mission

At Dobbs Defense, we deliver mission-centric IT, Cyber, and data analytics solutions for our government and commercial clients through the convergence of automation, innovation, training, and education. Delivering high-quality IT, cybersecurity, and data analytics solutions through proven and innovative methods is our vision.

Job Description

Dobbs Defense Solutions is looking for a Data Center Engineer (VDI) to add to our team. We are looking for an engineer in experience in Infrastructure/Datacenter. You will provide infrastructure engineering for data center, compute, storage, network, Unified Communications, and remote site servers. You will also design, deliver, and optimize Infrastructure Services to improve security, availability, performance, and resource utilization in the data centers.

Duties

Review current infrastructures, architectures, designs, and operations to identify potential improvements
Analyze, refine, and document the requirements for transition from legacy hardware into modern data center infrastructure environment
Design and build host & tenant environment with security hardened configuration for infrastructure services and design ongoing maintenance practices and procedures for infrastructure hosted service patching and updates
Design virtual Infrastructure services to maximize available capacity of physical compute, storage, and network hardware resources
Document security, configuration, and performance benchmarks of Infrastructure Services
Design production infrastructure services that support highly available, private cloud, active-active data center operations, within the constraints of the environment
Design practices, procedures, Automation and Orchestration to provision, de-provision, and entitle Compute, Storage, and Network resources
Identify infrastructure security-relevant actions, tests, and key performance indicators for Information Dashboard and Reporting
Design Service Catalog Items for Infrastructure Services for business and IT technical services
Provides advanced technical support in the research, experimentation, business analysis and use of systems technology including architecture, integration capabilities and database management
Develops the end-to-end vision and the logical design that translates into physical databases, and how the data will flow through the successive stages involved
Knowledgeable and practices a wider range of data administration skills, often in a Business Process Reengineering context
Participates in strategic data planning, including development and implementation of DA policies, standards, and procedures
Understands data from the perspective of data processing and in the context of different life-cycle phases
Activities may include data quality engineering, metadata consolidation and integration, metamodel development and maintenance, repository management, data warehouse design and data mining, data security administration, and formulation of enterprise-specific data metrics

Qualifications
Required Education and Experience:

Experience in Infrastructure/Datacenter engineering and integration for both physical and virtual infrastructure hosting one or more Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Solaris, UNIX, and/or AIX systems
Experience in VMware vCloud Enterprise Suite and hybrid cloud with multiple classified Government clouds
Must have a current DoD 8570.1-M IAT Level III certification

Working Environment