A Sea of Choices – One Solution
There are almost as many IT security firms as there are organizations in need of their guidance. The big names boast decades of experience and a global reputation; the smaller names promise personalized work experience with lean operations.

We know there are a lot of firms vying for you. So why choose MindPoint Group?

MindPoint Group – The IT Security Job You’ve Been Looking For
At MindPoint Group, we specialize in one thing: IT security. In fact, our singular focus and reputation as cyber security specialist have earned us roles as trusted advisors to key government decision makers where we help shape IT security policy, engineer innovative security solutions, and support security operations.

At MindPoint Group, we hire only the most driven, most qualified IT security professionals, and we equip them with the tools and resources they need to deliver success. We are profoundly invested in selecting the right people to join our team and are equally driven to retain them for the long term.  And so, when we find the right fit, we make it work. We offer challenging, growth-oriented assignments. Our collaborative culture unites our staff. And we reward employees with a competitive and exceptional benefits package.

Company Mission
MindPoint Group’s is deeply committed to our mission to become a trusted partner by consistently delivering proven, on point services to our clients. We strive to provide an organizational culture that fosters innovation, technical excellence, dedication to repeatable processes, and attention to detail. We believe that by empowering our employees to excel and providing them with the means to do so, MindPoint Group will consistently exceed our customers’ expectations.

MindPoint Group is seeking an experienced Server Engineer to manage the design, implementation, and maintenance of distributed server networks and provide technical support in all aspects of server networking to internal and external federal government clients. The candidate will be responsible for the following:

Server Engineering:

• Install and maintain server hardware, operating systems, and software
• Provide technical support to internal and external clients in all aspects of computer/server internetworking
• Ensure the availability and stability of the server environment, as required by the customer
• Support the architecture of the server environment by enforcing deployment practices, build procedures, and change management
• Provide alerting, monitoring, and reporting for supported systems that will promote continuous operation
• Work closely with network engineers, security engineers, infrastructure, helpdesk, and computer operations to ensure that all client/server network related problems are resolved quickly
• Research and provide solutions for unattended operations and monitoring that are within budgetary constraints
• Other duties as assigned by management and the customer

Server Operations:

• Server hardware procurement, assembly, and troubleshooting
• Dell Servers
• Redhat
• Windows Operating Systems
• Linux Operating Systems
• SQL Server
• TCP/IP Networking
• Technical post-uimnplementation follow-up
• Problem determination and resolution
• Technical end-user support
• Technical Test and Implementation Plans
• DB2 Connectivity
• WEB Services
• Developing and documenting a plan/schedule to meet all STIG and patching requirements of a federal government client
• Ensuring that all STIG and patching requirements of the client are met.

Product Evaluation: The candidate will provide a comprehensive review and/or evaluation of COTS products to ensure client’s functional requirements are met to support the server architecture. The candidate will also utilize other determining factors such as the agency’s enterprise architecture, previous software and hardware security assessments to provide the client with the best cost-effective solution while meeting both operational and security requirements for the organizations network.

Functional Responsibilities: The Server Engineer may perform any or all of the following: Develops and applies advanced methods, theories and research techniques to define engineering requirements, guidance and direction for analysis, investigation, implementation and testing of complex and advanced information systems requiring expert application of advanced knowledge. Provides leadership and vision for system engineering of large-scale systems, major system elements, and/or interfacing systems. Develops strategic and implementations plans for large-scale information systems. Applies reverse engineering and reengineering and disciplines to complex complexity. Reviews, evaluates, and analyzes design interfaces. Prepares, reviews and evaluates interface documentation, specifications, test plans and procedures. Conducts analysis to define, analysis of system requirements and components and performs system audits to ensure intended system functionality, operation and performance requirements are achieved. Analyzes, designs, codes and documents applications of software programs. Codes assigned programs, scripts and segments using appropriate languages. Evaluates, installs, configures, tests, and updates networking hardware and software. Analyses complex systems requirements and resolves network performance issues. May plan, conduct, and technically direct projects or major phases of significant projects, coordinating the efforts of engineers and technical staff in the performance of assigned projects.

• Minimum will have 8 years of general work experience and 6 years of relevant experience in functional responsibility.
• Top Secret clearance required and SCI eligible.
• Bachelor’s Degree. A Master’s Degree may be substituted for 4 years of general work experience.
• Experience and education equivalents: CEH, eCPPT, CISA, OSCP, Security+, Network+, GSEC, or other relevant IT security product certifications such as Tenable Certified Nessus, CISSP, CISM, ISO 27001, or CISA certifications equate to 3 years of experience in Functional Responsibility.
• Experience with design, installation, management, monitoring, group policies, and troubleshooting of servers.
• Experience in sizing, selecting, and ordering appropriate hardware for solutions and in performing troubleshooting of hardware problems.
• Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware ESX server virtualization solutions, Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp for VDI clients.
• Understanding of Microsoft Active Directory including management and group policies.
• Some knowledge of server and application monitoring and alerting
• Additional experience is strongly desired: SQL Server, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, RedHat,Windows XP Professional SP3 and Windows 7, McAfee ePO, McAfee Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) (Intrushield), McAfee Host Based Security System (HBSS)/Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS), AD, Group policy, Exchange, SANS and VMware. System Log Server and network device logs (router, switch, and firewall) management tools, (Kiwi), Event log archiving, audit reduction.

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