Virtualization / Automation Engineer (Journeyman)

The role

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Virtualization / Automation Engineer to operate, maintain, automate, and improve the virtualization and Software-Defined Data Center platforms supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This position supports VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, and associated infrastructure-automation capabilities.

What you need

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Candidates must meet all of the following requirements

Active Secret clearance or higher.
Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience where permitted by the applicable labor category.
Minimum of six years of relevant experience in virtualization, systems engineering, data-center infrastructure, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or a related technical discipline.
Hands-on experience administering enterprise hypervisor or Software-Defined Data Center platforms.
Experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter in an enterprise environment.
Experience supporting vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, or comparable software-defined storage, network-virtualization, and disaster-recovery technologies.
Experience developing, executing, or maintaining infrastructure-automation solutions.
Experience troubleshooting issues across virtualization, compute, storage, network, and automation layers.
Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, backup, restoration, capacity management, performance monitoring, and infrastructure lifecycle practices.
Ability to create and maintain technical procedures, automation documentation, configuration records, architecture diagrams, and recovery documentation.
Ability to support after-hours maintenance, disaster-recovery exercises, and critical incident response when required.
Strong written, verbal, analytical, and technical problem-solving skills.

Skills and Competencies

Enterprise virtualization and SDDC administration.
VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, and SRM.
Infrastructure as Code and configuration automation.
High availability, disaster recovery, and COOP support.
Platform capacity, performance, and lifecycle management.
Secure configuration and compliance support.
Complex infrastructure troubleshooting.
Hybrid-hosting and migration support.
Technical-documentation development.
Cross-functional engineering coordination.
Controlled change and release implementation.
Strong attention to detail and configuration discipline.
Ability to distinguish virtualization-platform responsibilities from guest operating-system and workload ownership.

The Virtualization / Automation Engineer will

Configure, administer, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize enterprise hypervisor and Software-Defined Data Center platforms.
Support VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, and associated platform-management capabilities.
Maintain virtualization clusters supporting production, development, testing, COOP, and disaster-recovery environments.
Configure and support vSphere High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler, resource pools, clusters, hosts, datastores, distributed switches, and related platform services.
Support ESXi host and vCenter installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, certificate maintenance, and lifecycle activities.
Monitor platform capacity, availability, performance, utilization, health, and configuration compliance.
Analyze processor, memory, storage, network, and cluster utilization and recommend corrective or capacity actions.
Configure and support vSAN clusters, disk groups, storage policies, capacity controls, fault domains, and health monitoring.
Troubleshoot vSAN capacity, performance, availability, resynchronization, hardware, and policy-compliance issues.
Configure and support approved NSX network-virtualization capabilities, including segments, transport zones, gateways, virtual switching, routing, and distributed security controls.
Coordinate NSX activities with network, cybersecurity, systems, application, and cloud teams.
Administer VMware Site Recovery Manager configurations, protection groups, inventory mappings, network mappings, and recovery plans.
Execute and document approved recovery-plan tests, failover activities, and failback activities.
Support quarterly COOP exercises, disaster-recovery testing, backup restoration, and actual continuity events.
Document exercise results, technical deficiencies, corrective actions, and lessons learned.
Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI, APIs, or comparable tools.
Create reusable modules, playbooks, scripts, templates, and workflows for provisioning, configuration, validation, patching, compliance, and recovery.
Maintain automation code in approved version-control repositories.
Follow established peer-review, testing, approval, release, rollback, and documentation procedures for automation changes.
Implement appropriate logging, error handling, secrets protection, state management, and validation within automation solutions.
Automate repetitive administrative and configuration activities when authorized.
Support automated configuration-baseline checks and identify drift from approved platform standards.
Support infrastructure provisioning while preserving the division between platform ownership and guest operating-system, application, database, and workload ownership.
Coordinate with system administrators and workload owners regarding resource requirements, placement, templates, snapshots, virtual hardware, and platform dependencies.
Coordinate with storage, network, cloud, application, database, and cybersecurity teams to troubleshoot cross-platform incidents.
Provide advanced engineering support for virtualization, software-defined storage, network virtualization, automation, and recovery issues.
Support outage response by isolating platform failures, restoring services, implementing approved workarounds, and providing technical status updates.
Collect platform logs, events, performance information, configuration data, and other evidence needed for root-cause analysis.
Implement approved corrective and preventive actions resulting from incident and problem reviews.
Maintain backups of applicable platform configurations and support restoration testing.
Apply approved platform security baselines, patches, hardening settings, and configuration standards.
Support compliance with DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides and applicable vulnerability directives.
Assist with Risk Management Framework control implementation, evidence collection, assessment support, and remediation activities.
Review vendor notices, vulnerabilities, patches, and lifecycle information for potential platform impact.
Support technology refreshes and modernization activities involving compute, storage, network virtualization, hyperconverged infrastructure, and SDDC capabilities.
Assist with assessments of platform capacity, technical debt, security gaps, lifecycle risks, and modernization opportunities.
Contribute technical information to architecture options, implementation plans, schedules, cost estimates, and engineering recommendations.
Support the transition of applicable infrastructure and services to centralized DISA-hosting platforms.
Perform discovery and document existing platform inventories, configurations, interfaces, dependencies, network requirements, storage requirements, and recovery requirements.
Assist with platform-readiness assessments and coordinate with guest operating-system, application, database, and cloud-workload owners.
Support migration test plans, implementation procedures, rollback plans, cutover activities, validation, and post-migration stabilization.
Coordinate with Government stakeholders, DISA representatives, vendors, and technical teams during hosting-transition activities.
Support integration of SDDC capabilities with cloud, COOP, and on-premises environments.
Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, as-built documentation, configuration baselines, standard operating procedures, automation documentation, and recovery procedures.
Follow approved change, release, incident, problem, configuration, security, and quality-management processes.
Provide platform metrics, capacity information, accomplishments, risks, issues, and modernization status for program reporting.

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Virtualization / Automation Engineer (Journeyman)

The role

Virtualization / Automation Engineer (Journeyman)

The role

What you need

Qualifications

Candidates must meet all of the following requirements

Skills and Competencies

The Virtualization / Automation Engineer will

The following qualifications are preferred but are not required

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