Remote Cloud & System Engineer – Journeyman

DecisionPoint Corporation; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

DecisionPoint Corporation seeks two Journeyman Cloud / System Engineers to support enterprise servers, operating systems, virtualization platforms, cloud services, and infrastructure for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. Remote work with a Chicago-area preference is offered, with after-hours work possible during outages, deployments, and maintenance windows.

These engineers will collaborate with the Cloud / System Engineering Lead, network teams, cybersecurity personnel, service-management teams,

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Minimum of 6 years of relevant cloud engineering, systems engineering, systems administration, virtualization, or enterprise infrastructure experience.
• Current professional certification relevant to systems, cloud, operating systems, virtualization, or enterprise infrastructure engineering.

Responsibilities

• Support Windows Server, Linux, or other approved enterprise operating systems.
• Configure and maintain physical and virtual servers, operating-system services, enterprise applications, and infrastructure appliances.
• Administer and support enterprise virtualization platforms, hypervisors, management servers, clusters, hosts, and virtual machines.
• Monitor server and virtualization availability, performance, utilization, capacity, health, and operational status.
• Diagnose and resolve operating-system, server, virtualization, appliance, storage, cloud-connectivity, and performance issues.
• Support integration of infrastructure appliances with network, storage, virtualization, identity, monitoring, logging, backup, and security services.
• Support cloud operations and integration among cloud, on-premises, continuity, and remote environments.
• Assist with configuration and troubleshooting of Virtual Private Clouds, DNS, load balancers, API connectivity, certificates, and related cloud services.
• Implement approved infrastructure configurations, technical changes, security updates, and operational procedures.
• Apply operating-system updates, vendor patches, firmware upgrades, security patches, and approved configuration changes.
• Test updates and configuration changes before implementation in production environments when required.
• Support server, virtualization, software, appliance, and infrastructure-component refreshes.
• Stage, install, configure, migrate, test, validate, and document replacement components.
• Support lifecycle planning, inventory validation, configuration management, equipment refresh, and disposition activities.
• Maintain accurate system, asset, configuration, warranty, licensing, and lifecycle records.
• Support workload migrations, platform upgrades, hardware replacements, and infrastructure-modernization initiatives.
• Develop or execute approved implementation plans, migration procedures, test steps, validation criteria, rollback procedures, and outage contingencies.
• Participate in Outage Response Team activities involving systems, cloud services, virtualization platforms, infrastructure appliances, or supporting components.
• Support incident diagnosis, mitigation, workarounds, recovery actions, restoration, and service validation.
• Gather logs, configuration details, monitoring data, timelines, and technical evidence for incident investigation and root-cause analysis.
• Escalate complex technical issues to senior engineers, vendors, cloud providers, and other support organizations.
• Track restoration activities, technical dependencies, assigned actions, and corrective measures through completion.
• Configure and support backup, restoration, replication, high-availability, fault-tolerance, disaster-recovery, and continuity capabilities.
• Conduct backup and recovery testing to verify that mission-critical systems and data can be restored.
• Support VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, Site Recovery Manager, NSX, or comparable virtualization technologies.
• Support infrastructure automation and configuration-management activities using approved tools and scripts.
• Assist with Infrastructure as Code implementations using Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, or comparable technologies.
• Configure systems and appliances in accordance with applicable DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides and approved security baselines.
• Support remediation of IAVAs, CND Directives, vulnerabilities, POA&M items, and security-control deficiencies.
• Collect and maintain evidence supporting RMF, ATO, cybersecurity, audit, and inspection activities.
• Follow approved incident, problem, change, configuration, release, availability, and service-continuity processes.
• Maintain system diagrams, configuration records, build documents, operational procedures, field guides, standard operating procedures, and troubleshooting documentation.
• Identify recurring issues, capacity constraints, obsolete components, configuration risks, and modernization opportunities.
• Recommend improvements that increase system availability, automation, security, scalability, supportability, and operational efficiency.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Systems administration

Virtualization

Security compliance

Disaster recovery

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

VMware vSphere

Job description

DecisionPoint Corporation seeks two Journeyman Cloud / System Engineers to support enterprise servers, operating systems, virtualization platforms, cloud services, and infrastructure for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. Remote work with a Chicago-area preference is offered, with after-hours work possible during outages, deployments, and maintenance windows.

These engineers will collaborate with the Cloud / System Engineering Lead, network teams, cybersecurity personnel, service-management teams,