Who We Are.
Platinum Technologies is a Northern Virginia based integrated solutions firm that specializes in Cybersecurity, Cloud and Digital Services to the Public Sector. Our team solves hard problems and helps our Mission Partners achieve their goals. If you are self-motivated, possess demonstrated learning agility, and are passionate about delivering high-quality work products – we want to hear from you.
We lead with technical expertise, but that is just the tip of the iceberg – the ‘Why’ matters. At Platinum, we don’t hire people to do a job. We provide professional and leadership development to complement our self-motivated domain experts. Our teammates are dot-connecting leaders that operate in a mutually accountable environment to deliver thought leadership, expert technical analysis, and quality execution for our clients.
You.
Platinum Technologies currently has an opportunity for a
Systems Engineer to support our Program (DES), a growing program with exciting opportunities to excel in your career.
Are you someone with a strong expertise in designing and planning system migration? Possess hands on experience operating systems and server hardware?
Are you ready to make an impact and join a creative, forward-thinking team? We’re looking for innovators and forward-thinkers to help us do great things.
This role is located in Ft Meade, MD.
HYBRID role. Candidate must hold an active DoD Secret clearance.
What You Get To Do.
- Document existing infrastructure configuration, requirements, and overall architecture. Work with various stakeholder to produce high level and detailed designs for existing infrastructure. Identify areas for improvement
- Develop plan to migrate current infrastructure into singular architecture and develop hardware procurement plan needed for migration
- Design solutions, integrate, configure, test, and deploy numerous types of server-based applications based on Windows, Linux operating systems deployed on various virtualization platforms and cloud environments
- Optimize end-to-end system performance and migration workflows
- Conduct data captures to obtain computing performance and system configuration information
- Define migration plans that accelerate execution and minimize impact to the user community
- Establish migration plans for complex n-tier applications and services
- Gather needed data to forecast long-term capacity and performance requirements
Required Skills:
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (preferred) with 8-12 years' experience or Master's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math with 6-10 years of experience (additional years of directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree)
- Require active DoD IAT Level II (i.e., Security+) certification or equivalent prior to start
- Experience documenting logical or physical designs using drawing tools (e.g. Visio, Powerpoint, Gliffy, Cameo, MagicDraw) to depict systems, subsystems, interfaces, components, and communications of I/T applications and infrastructure
- Experience with requirements management and analysis
- Experienced and comfortable with conducting technical troubleshooting to resolve issues
- Experience creating or executing a migration plan to move services, applications, or data between environments or to a commercial cloud provider. Alternatively, experience planning or executing a technology refresh or lifecycle refresh of an existing I/T system
- Experience conducting site surveys or analyzing data obtained from site surveys
- Must have broad exposure to common I/T infrastructure with at least one area of depth in networking, storage, Identity and Access Management, operating systems, server virtualization, enterprise productivity applications, voice, desktops, or mobile devices
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. This shall include drafting SOPs and technical documentation
- Must be able to present designs and plans to technical leadership personnel and boards for approvals
Platinum Technologies is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, race, color, religious creed, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, age, or genetic information.
