Kforce has a client that is seeking a Data Center Infrastructure Network Engineer in Orlando, FL. This position is evening shift (1400-2200). Summary: The Engineer will perform as a technical team member of Engineers in the maintenance (technical including VMware, Microservices, Networking, Security Services, etc.) of the platform and ensuring continuity of operations for our End Users. In this role you will need to foster a relationship of trust with our customers and the current in place technical staff. Duties: * Automate, collect, process, and present, system performance, and other metric information to show improvements or degradation over time; Balance hybrid cloud distribution between private corporate infrastructure and public clouds; Work as part of a fast moving highly diverse team across multiple projects simultaneously * Contribute as part of a high performing team in an Agile development and execution paradigm providing insight into taskings to both the team and customer via Jira and Confluence* Associates/Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline such as Computer Science or Information Technology from an accredited college or university; Will consider additional degrees with accompanied technical leadership experience * Security+ Certification; If not currently certified, must be able to obtain certification within 6 months of hire * Ten years of work experience preferred * Must be comfortable with Linux system management, as this is the primary operating system, as well as other Red Hat enterprise services * Ability to implement, operate, and maintain physical switches, routers, IPS, IDS device* Ability to implement, operate, and maintain a VMware NSX based SDN * Understand Kubernetes and microservice-based applications * Must be a self-starter in a fast-paced environment and able to work with a multi-faceted technical team of engineers with a diverse set of skills at differing levels of experience * Able to work as part of a team for the production and fielding of the network systems * Visa sponsorship is not available for this position * Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information Preferred Experience: * Experience with Ansible (or similar) infrastructure automation to deploy and configure standard baselines for physical devices and in a virtual environment (VMware and Linux) * Ability to utilize scripting for automating tasks, administration, data collection and reporting; This job requires the ability to write, test, debug, deploy, and maintain scripts * Ability to audit and report system and performance logs * Ability to automate, administer and maintain the environment through configuration management, version control, and backups with the use of scripting * Ability to respond professionally, effectively, and efficiently to service requests