**Description** SAIC is seeking a Senior System-VDI Engineer that is passionate about craftsmanship, teamwork, and delivering user capability to support the Air Force weather community on the Technology Application Development & Sustainment (TADS) contract located at the Offutt, AFB in Nebraska. The Senior System - VDI Engineer will support all aspects of VMware virtualization; configuration, implementation, management of servers in virtualized environment, and VDI implementations. The candidate also should have a foundation in Windows and network management skills. This position requires a mixture of engineering, operations, hands-on technical and support skills. Qualified candidates should have excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills. The individual will work closely with technical leads, infrastructure and operations teams and other cross-department teams to evaluate business needs and provide end-to-end technical solutions and manage, operate, monitor, audit, secure server Virtualization assets within an empowered, cross-functional team. Successful candidates will demonstrate the following characteristics: + Growth Mindset + Self-Starter + Servant Leadership + Grit **Qualifications** + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Assurance, or Cyber Security and nine (9) + years of applicable experience. + Must have the ability to install and configure vCenter Server. + Must be able to work with ESXi cluster servers. + Must have experience monitoring the health of VMs operating in various data centers. + Experience with VMware Horizon View, VMware vCenter, vSphere Client and Web Client, VMware Workstation, managing VMware Horizon user profiles and understanding VMware's integration with complex storage technologies. + Demonstrated experience in all aspects of enterprise Windows environment operations and maintenance (O&M) and engineering. + Experience with performing root cause analysis, risk identification, and risk mitigation. + Demonstrated experience in a fast tempo ITSM support environment. + Familiarity with Agile methodologies (Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean, Theory of Constraints). + Experience with configuration management tools (Git, Mercurial, ...). + Must be a US Citizen and must be able to obtain a Secret clearance. **Preferred Qualifications:** + CompTIA Security+, Network+, CSSLP, or equivalent. + VMware certification VCP/VCAP and/or VDI Certification. + Active Secret Clearance. + CISSP. + Familiarity with 557th Weather Wing. + Familiarity with meteorological data formats like METAR, GriB, GriB2, and NetCDF. + Familiarity with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery concepts and enabling tools such as Jenkins, Maven, and Ansible. + Familiarity with service based standards such as REST and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Services (OWS). + Testing tools (e.g. Junit, Selenium, jMeter). + Code quality tools (e.g. Sonar, Cast). + Static scanning (e.g. Fortify). SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline. Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site. REQNUMBER: 2413937 SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability