Senior Systems Engineer

Agile Defense, Shaw AFB, SC

What you will do

Direct host patching, maintenance, and major version upgrades across multi-cluster ESXi and vCenter environments
Fine-tune VMware DRS rules, High Availability (HA) admission controls to maximize compute density and hardware efficiency
Design and govern vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS), including uplink teaming policies, network failover teaming policies, and VLAN tagging integrity
Architect and audit dedicated, non-routed Layer 2 storage fabrics (SAN, iSCSI, NFS), ensuring complete absence of Layer 3 SVIs and gateway routing hops
Verifying consistent Jumbo Frame (9000/9216) MTU settings across VMkernel interfaces, vNICs, fabric interconnects, physical switches, and storage targets
Author, validate, and maintain unified UCS server profile templates across B-Series blade rack servers to eliminate configuration drift
Enforce zero-trust identity baselines, privilege access workstations principles, and DISA STIG compliance across enterprise forests

Agile Defense, Shaw AFB, SC

$90K–$100K

a year

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Direct host patching, maintenance, and major version upgrades across multi-cluster ESXi and vCenter environments
Fine-tune VMware DRS rules, High Availability (HA) admission controls to maximize compute density and hardware efficiency
Design and govern vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS), including uplink teaming policies, network failover teaming policies, and VLAN tagging integrity
Architect and audit dedicated, non-routed Layer 2 storage fabrics (SAN, iSCSI, NFS), ensuring complete absence of Layer 3 SVIs and gateway routing hops
Verifying consistent Jumbo Frame (9000/9216) MTU settings across VMkernel interfaces, vNICs, fabric interconnects, physical switches, and storage targets
Author, validate, and maintain unified UCS server profile templates across B-Series blade rack servers to eliminate configuration drift
Enforce zero-trust identity baselines, privilege access workstations principles, and DISA STIG compliance across enterprise forests