Job Description
Overview
The Virtual Server Engineering (VSE) team provides infrastructure design, implementation, and management for virtualized infrastructure and the supporting physical server infrastructure. These services include virtualization platforms, disaster recovery, migration, automation, monitoring, and optimization of the virtual environment.
Virtual Server Engineering uses Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and engineering discipline to design, build and maintain large-scale Virtual Environments with high efficiency and availability using the combination of software and systems engineering practices. In this position, you will leverage an SRE mindset and a set of engineering approaches to running better production systems and optimizations, with efforts focused on limiting time spent on reactive operational work, eliminating manual work through automation, performance tuning, and growing the efficiency of production systems. Our Virtual Server Engineers are responsible for the big picture of how our systems relate and communicate; we use a breadth of tools and approaches to tackle a broad spectrum of problems.
VSEs’ culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, creative problem-solving, and openness is essential to its success. Our organization brings together people with various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We encourage everyone to collaborate, both within and outside our team, think big, and take risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on meaningful projects while striving to build an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow.
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and support large-scale Virtual Environments using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and Nutanix AHV, including engaging in and improving the whole lifecycle of services — from inception and design to deployment, operation, and refinement, and through decommissioning
Design, implement, and support large-scale Hardware Environments (e.g., Cisco, HP, Dell), including engaging in and improving the whole lifecycle of services — from inception and design to deployment, operation, and refinement, and through decommissioning
Identify opportunities to leverage and implement automation and Infrastructure as Code to provision and maintain our virtual environment and increase customer enablement. Leverage automation to reduce the number of manual processes performed to have more time to focus on value-added work
Support and maintain services and systems before they go live and when in production, including monitoring availability, latency, performance, and overall system health
Contribute to systematic exploration, discovery, and recommendation of new and emerging technologies pertaining to VSEs' services
Create, update, and maintain documentation reflecting all virtual environments' architecture, configuration, and operation
Provide incident and ticket responses and participate in an On-Call rotation
Qualifications
BS degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent experience
Five years or more of practical experience
Strong firsthand experience with large-scale Virtual Environments using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and/or Nutanix AHV
Strong firsthand experience with large-scale Hardware Environments (e.g., Cisco, HP, Dell)
Experience with containerization of software services (e.g., OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes)
Experience with scripting languages (e.g., JavaScript, Python, Bash, and PowerCLI)
Experience with Automation software (e.g., Ansible, Packer, Terraform, Azure Automation)
Experience with version control, GIT experience preferred
General knowledge of both networking and storage systems
Desired Qualifications
An interest in crafting, analyzing, and improving large-scale Virtual Environments
Familiar with Agile methodology and using Azure DevOps (ADO)
Bring a systematic problem-solving approach, solid communication skills, and a sense of ownership and drive
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00AM - 4:30PM
Location: 820 Follin Lane, Vienna, VA 22180 | 5510 Heritage Oaks Drive, Pensacola, FL 32526 | 141 Security Drive, Winchester, VA 22602
About Us
Navy Federal provides much more than a job. We provide a meaningful career experience, including a culture that is energized, engaged and committed; and fierce appreciation for our teams, who are rewarded with highly competitive pay and generous benefits and perks.
Our approach to careers is simple yet powerful: Make our mission your passion.
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Hybrid Workplace: Navy Federal Credit Union is a hybrid workplace, and details will be discussed during your interview process.
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