Systems Engineer - Infoblox

Seeking motivated technical professionals who specialize in providing Enterprise Infoblox DDI and related services to Government Agency’s internal and external partners and clients with a focus on stability and performance. The Senior DDI Engineer/administrator would require at least 8 to 10 years of directly related experience supporting DDI operations and engineering The position holder will be primarily focused on performing engineering, analytical, investigative and operational functions on Agency DDI environment; activities include Engineering , operation and maintenance of DDI platforms, monitoring, alerting, availability, and recovery.

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Investigation and diagnosis of incidents and problems relating to DD I(Infoblox DNS, DHCP, IPAM) and related services.
• Ensure the platforms and services are managed and maintained.
• Help Identify and manage risks within the DDI platform.
• Working with the Government lead and other service areas’ Architecture, Engineering & Operations leads and technical specialists, as well as professional services staff from vendors to implement the plan to deliver a strategic DDI platform and migrate all in-scope services from existing platforms.
• Ensure that system improvements and changes are implemented and monitor effects of modifications.
• Define the capacity and performance standards, metrics and thresholds and help build the instrumentation to effectively manage the environment.

Qualifications:

• Extensive and recent experience of DNS in a large enterprise (Configuration and Management)
• In-depth knowledge of DNS, NTP, IPAM, BIND, and DHCP.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving, and the ability to, and the ability to debug complex-cross systems problems, and document root cause including remediation and detection
• Demonstrates knowledge of a broad range of technology towers i.e.: Storage, Virtualization, Intel, Networking, Data Center Migration and Disaster Recovery
• Knowledge of risk and controls landscape, ensuring company-wide standards are met
• Participate in change and incident management
• Desired - experience with Microsoft DNS, Dyn, VMWare Automation products (vRO, vRA)
• Hands on experience with Python and APIs
• Self-driven with the ability to manage workload without direct supervision
• Anticipating potential problems and acting to minimize the impact they may have on the project or unit
• Ability to collaborate with different technology towers to achieve common goals
• Ability to manage multiple stands of work simultaneously.
• Executes within a customer-centric environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• 8570 IAT II Certification

Education and Experience:

• HS/GED + 12 years
• Associates Degree + 10 years
• Bachelor's Degree + 8 years
• Master's Degree + 6 years
• PhD + 4 years

Security Clearance:

• TS/SCI with CI Polygraph
• Candidates must be willing and able to attain a CI Polygraph if one is not already held

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