SWASN Field Service Specialist

SWASN Field Service Specialist - Mid East 12 mos TS/SCI

NOTE: THIS POSITION 100% Travel and is Located in the Middle-East. We are seeking an on-site support specialist for forward-deployed expeditionary data centers. The assignment is for 12 months to middle-eastern secure headquarters locations into active military operating regions. All applicants must be willing and able to travel to foreign adverse working environments. Substantial hazard stipend applies. Provide production operations and troubleshooting support for data center infrastructure technology including managed switch devices, storage systems, computer hardware including blade-based computer hardware, and operating systems. Equipment to install/troubleshoot will include Juniper networking equipment, Isilon and NetApp storage equipment, Dell servers are blade systems. Operating systems will include VMware ESX and ESXi, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008R2. Required Skills: Required Education includes relevant certifications, including technical military course work. While there will be CONUS technical support for the forward-deployed engineer, it is extremely important that the successful candidate be able to work alone and solve technical problems without help. Preferred Skills: * Administration experience with Linux, Windows, and (to a lesser extent) Solaris * Enterprise Virtualization Experience-VMWare ESX, Xen, or XVM * Highly Available (Clustered) NFS and CIFS Servers-NetApp OnTap or other * SAN-iSCSI or Fiber Channel * Directory Services-Active Directory, OpenLDAP or other * Managed Networking Equipment-Layer 3-capable managed switches (core/top-of-rack) * CCENT, CCNA Coursework Complete (or equivalent working knowledge) * Patch/recompile Linux Kernel * Download, configure, recompile and install open source packages * Information Assurance, applying security patches and security scans