Lead Problem Management SME

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Empower AI: As the Lead Problem Management SME, you will be a key member of the Empower AI team providing support to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Joint Service Provider (JSP) on the Platform Services contract. JSP operates and defends the Department of Defense’s (DOD) key cyber terrain and provides information technology (IT) services to Pentagon and National Capital Region (NCR) customers. For Platform Services, Empower AI will provide an integrated, structured approach to operating, managing, and maintaining the JSP-supported infrastructure across all managed platforms, as well as assist in defining requirements for future upgrades and enhancements based on operational and customer trends. We will provide a unified approach to managing server, storage, and application resources (to include virtualized applications) at an enterprise level. In order to drive standardization in the hosting environment, Empower AI will assist customers, both external and internal, by moving applications to the JSP IT environments. This will allow JSP to offer services and infrastructure to customers via a Platform as a Service model, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model, Desktop as a Service (DaaS) model, or at minimum, limit application deployments only to standardized servers.

Highlights of Responsibilities:

• Manage the lifecycle of all problems (average 25-30 monthly), ie., unknown cause of one or more incidents, and shall continuously analyze trend data of systems, capabilities, costs, flexibility, performance, and reliability of existing infrastructure and identify operational gaps. The expected outcomes of the gap analyses are recommended solutions that will improve capabilities and performance for IT services and minimize disruptions to end users.
• Support the primary objectives of problem management, which are to prevent problems and resulting incidents from happening, to eliminate recurring incidents, to assist in identifying weaknesses in processes, to propose applicable resolutions, and to minimize the impact of incidents that cannot be prevented by identifying weaknesses or errors in the infrastructure, workstations, VDI, remote platforms, and any other remote device.
• Provide for Problem Categorization and Prioritization.
• Provide Problem Diagnosis and Resolution.
• Ensure that the details of the problem are recorded for a full historic record.
• Develop and maintain a Knowledge base of all problem management incidents in a Known Error Record Database.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering, computer information systems, telecommunications, or management information systems, and 2 - 7 recent years of documented experience relevant to this key position.
• Information Assurance (IA) Certification: DoDI 8570 IAT II certification.
• Computing Environment (CE) Certification: Recent and relevant technical certification.
• Top Secret security clearance.
• Experience in analyzing possible solution designs flaws, identifying problems current and trending and document proposed solutions.
• Knowledge in determining and identifying high level functional and technical requirements in order to properly understand potential and realized problems in the environment.
• Experience working with Senior IT administrators and engineers to perform analysis on problems within the environment.
• Knowledge of current server technology to include cloud computing, Blade Server, enterprise storage, unified communications and virtualization technology.
• Technical capabilities should include knowledge of Active Directory (group policies, group permissions, deployment of and troubleshooting) and knowledge of CAC/PKI and DNS/DHCP/WINS and how they integrate in the Active Directory infrastructure.
• Experience in Windows environment on Server 2008, Server 2012, and Windows 7 and/or Windows 10 operating systems environments.
• Possess IT engineering/Problem Management certification (i.e. ITIL)
• Demonstrated ability for oral and written communication with the highest levels of management.

Preferred Qualifications:

• ITILv4 certification

Physical Requirements:

• Sitting for long periods
• Standing for long periods
• Ambulate throughout an office
• Ambulate between several buildings
• Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl as required
• Travel by land or air transportation 25% or less

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