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Please send your resume to ravenna.chase@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:ravenna.chase@xxxxxxxxxxx>. DoD/TMA/JMISO Distributed Development Division (3D) requires the following: INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING CONSULTANT The 3D TEAM staff is tasked by the 3D Technical Director. RESPONSIBILITIES: * Collecting test scripts from projects and creating a enterprise test script package to conduct enterprise load, stress and capacity planning tests. * Monitoring availability of 3D production applications and reporting variances from the SLAs. * Database and application performance monitoring and issue resolution. * Network issues in availability and performance. * Enterprise diagramming and documentation of system to system communications and data sharing mechanisms. * Troubleshooting all system security issues and requirements. * Ensuring compliance with 3D Technical Review Board (TRB), Military Health Systems (MHS) Configuration Management (CM) and DOD standards during the application transition in the Common Development Environment (CDE) between various environments (For example: Development to Test and Test to Production environments). * Determining the root cause of all production outages and closing the loop to procedures, processes and policies. * Ensure that stakeholders deploy products in compliance with 3D CDE policy or have obtained waivers to CDE policy. * Liaison between project personnel and the CDE group * Develop and implement CDE application deployment policies, procedures and practices, architectural design and intent * Function as subject matter experts in assigned enterprise CDE tools (Load Testing, application monitors, change control software, application management software, etc.) * Alert the 3D Technical Review Board (3DTRB) of any foreseeable issues regarding a project's planned deployment * Advise the projects and CDE on technical issues as they arise * Be familiar with the assigned project's planned deployment DUTIES: * Attend meetings with project groups and CDE groups as needed * Write issue papers and research papers as tasked * Maintain knowledge of assigned enterprise tools and provide cross training to other engineers in the assigned tools * Advise 3DTRB on deployment requirements development, policies, procedures and practices, and architectural design * Advise projects on CDE deployment requirements * Resolve or help resolve technical issues in any environment as assigned by the CDE Managers * Assist projects in complying with security standards * Help ensure that projects successfully move their product into production test * Assist the Program Management Office (PMO) with writing Statements of Work, Requests for Proposals and Requests for Information. * Assist the PMO in evaluating proposals * Support PMO Configuration Management and Change Control directives by advising projects on requirements throughout the life cycle of the application * Assist projects in the technical management of the development, production transition and production maintenance cycles, ensuring emergent MHS Service Oriented Architectural (SOA) standards are supported vis-à-vis compliance standards approved by the 3DTRB, through Quality Assurance (QA) audits and oversight activities, as required. * Function as Availability Managers for production applications by monitoring and reporting on application uptime for assigned applications * Provide Level of Effort (LOE) estimates as required subject to defined standards, constraints and assumptions directed by 3D for intra-organizational project engineering tasks required. * Perform critical analyses during the project life cycle: Proposed Solution Review, Business Case Analysis for non-preferred but acceptable solutions, analysis of solution adjustment to preferred solution, and acceptance reviews of mandatory solution components. REQUIRED EXPERIENCE: * 5+ years current hands-on Multi-Vendor environment UNIX (Linux/RedHat & Solaris) and Windows system level experience/skills. * Solid understanding of LAN/WAN technologies and TCP/IP networking and troubleshooting * Experience with Sun Cluster Server build and server troubleshooting experience in collocation environments. * Systems Design and Deployment of HIGH AVAILABILITY (24/7/365) environments. * Open systems environment configurations using Apache, PHP and java. * Experience implementing Oracle HA on Solaris and/or Linux * Experience with Sun server hardware, Hitachi SANs * Experience developing standard system configurations and documentation. * Structured change management processes for highly available Web facing environments. * Experience setting policies, procedures, network software and hardware standards, documentation standards. * Highly preferred individual characteristics include: * + Self-starter who relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals; Ability to work in a high tech fast paced environments. * + Strong aptitude for learning and understanding business processes and needs. * + Flexible and adaptable in regards to learning and understanding new technologies. * + Good team member, with organizational planning skills and strong time management skills to balance dynamic workloads * + Solid project management fundamentals, including planning, scheduling, risk management, and reporting. * + Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills required; able to think on your feet and drive decisions and forward progress in the face of obstacles. * + Strong interpersonal skills, Excellent negotiation and strong written and oral communication skills * + Maturity and experience necessary to work with internal/external customers at various levels of the organization, including managing third party vendors/subcontractors. * + Ability to maintain the highest level of customer service * + Able to clearly articulate designs according to DOD documentation standards. * + Experience virtualizing heterogeneous storage arrays * + Hands-on experience in a mission-critical production environment of 100+ servers using industry standard software MS Windows, SUN, ORACLE. 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