• Designing and improving projects for implementation. • Assessing current systems to secure best practices and balance by complying with federal policies and procedures. • Managing broad area virtual private networks (VPNs), fixing network and connectivity issues, and ensuring sufficient network redundancy to satellites and warehouses. • Understanding system administration and how network hardware and technologies work. • Administering server visualization technologies (i.e., VMware, Red Hat Virtualization, or Oracle VM). • Monitoring operating system performance (i.e., Windows, Linux, or Mac OS). • Optimizing performance of databases, networks, applications, and servers. • Serving as configuration managers to create, apply, and enforce processes for promoting all infrastructure components from the development environment to the testing, demonstrating, and generating environments. • Installing components on networks and servers and ensuring they work in tandem and can be executed without compilation errors in various platforms and environments. • Managing the host environment to ensure proper tuning and sufficient capacity (including web servers, database servers, VMWare, Cisco, Citrix, SAN, directories, and blades). • Sharing knowledge across organizations and participating in client projects (e.g., position papers, special studies, evaluations, etc.). • Integrating and leading programs across organizations. • Ensuring the smooth flow of data throughout an organization, including resolving desktop computer and phone (video conferencing) issues. • Managing the security of computer systems and inter-application information transfers.