Principal Technician (Digital Infrastructure)

SGP Recruiting provides both operations and strategic support to Tribal 8(a) and commercial organizations. Our client is an ISO certified international Information Technology consulting and Engineering Services company focused on supporting public and private sector customers as they tackle their most daunting Information Technology and business challenges.

They are seeking a Principal Technician (Digital Infrastructure) to support an upcoming NATO ACT program in Norfolk, VA. This is a great opportunity to be part of an international company specializing in the provision of services in the area of information systems and technologies, outsourcing solutions, and application development services to government and non-government organizations.

Working Location: Norfolk, VA.

Employment Type: 1099, B2B

Compensation: $45-50/hr USD

Language: High proficiency level in English language

Security Clearance: NATO Secret

DUTIES/ROLE:

Systems Design

• Follows standard approaches and established design patterns to create new designs for simple systems or system components.

• Identifies and resolves minor design issues.

• Identifies alternative design options and seeks guidance when deviating from established design patterns.

Systems integration and build

• Provides technical expertise to enable the configuration of system components and equipment for systems testing.

• Collaborates with technical teams to develop and agree on system integration plans and report on progress.

• Defines complex or new integration builds.

• Ensures that integration test environments are correctly configured.

• Designs, performs, and reports results of tests of the integration build.

• Identifies and documents system integration components for recording in the configuration management system.

• Recommends and implements improvements to processes and tools.

IT infrastructure

• Provisions, installs, configures, and maintains infrastructure services and components.

• Monitors, measures, and reports on infrastructure load, performance, and security events.

• Identifies operational issues and contributes to their resolution.

• Carries out agreed operational procedures, including backup and restore, using supplied infrastructure tools and scripts.

• Carries out agreed system software maintenance tasks.

• Automates routine system administration tasks to specifications using standard tools and basic scripting.

Additional duties for this post:

• Establishes, monitors, and conducts On-The-Job Training (OJT) to ensure all personnel are proficient in their duties.

• Ensures compliance with cryptographic security standards.

• Supervises the maintenance and installation of online crypto equipment.

• Provides collaboration and assistance to other work sections within Service Operations Branch in support of mission requirements.

• Performs other duties as required.