Lead Infrastructure/Platform Service Engineer - NISSC II

Our NORAD Operations Group

Selected by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Strategic Warning and Surveillance Systems Division for Operations, Maintenance, and Sustainment (OM&S) of critical mission systems for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Cheyenne Mountain Complex (NCMC), we support the Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (ITW/AA) and Space Support Contract II (NISSC II).

Since 2020, through the (ITW/AA) and Space Support Contract II (NISSC II), has provided:

·       Operations, maintenance, and Sustainment of current and legacy systems for the surveillance and cataloging of manmade objects in space.

·       Mitigation of orbital conflicts.

·       Threat warnings and control from airborne, land-based, and space-based systems for threat activities.

·       Operations and maintenance of classified communications.

·       Software development and integration.

NISSC II supports the classified communications and processing for Command and Control (C2) capability and legacy space C2 systems located at:

·       Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station (CMSFS), Colorado

·       Peterson Space Force Base (PSFB), Colorado

·       Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska

·       Vandenberg Space Force Base, California

·       Numerous sensor and forward operator sites around the world

Description of Duties:

The Lead Infrastructure/Platform Service Engineer supports North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) on the Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (ITW/AA) and Space Support Contract II (NISSC II). The candidate will:

·       Technical team lead of system administrators and automation engineers

·       Install and maintain VMware visualization environments

·       Install and maintain Kubernetes-based orchestration platforms

·       Implement and maintain a Centralized Identity and Access Management (IDAM) solution

·       Install and configure Red Hat Satellite services

·       Integrate Red Hat Satellite with VMware products

·       Examine current server configurations and scaling as necessary

·       Configure Ansible to integrate with Satellite server

·       Configure Ansible to integrate with VMware Cloud Foundation and Aria Automation

·       Ensure security compliance of Red Hat and Windows systems through Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) and patching CVEs

·       Deploy virtual machine STIG templates

·       Design, provision, manage, and monitor systems and infrastructure

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