Virtualization Engineer

Introduction

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Your Role and Responsibilities

Position Location: Radford, VA or Ft. Belvoir/VA

5 days on site

Position Overview:

This position is for a Virtualization Engineer supporting the Army Edge Computing Capability (AECC) project that ALTESS is fielding for the US Army. The AECC solution is a hyperconverged, multitenant private cloud hosting environment for hosting Army enterprise and tactical applications. AECC is utilizing the full suite of VMware products (ESXi, vSAN, NSX, vCloud Foundations, ARIA Automation, Tanzu) to implement a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) across multiple global sites. ALTESS provides value added common and managed services built on top of the VMware foundation, that hosted Army applications will require. ALTESS is a managed service provider (MSP) and hosting services provider for Army applications. ALTESS is a Product Director office under Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS).

Position Duties:

• Work with Government engineers to develop and maintain the AECC architecture.

• Develop, deploy, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for deployment and sustainment of the VMware suite of products in the AECC.

• As applications are hosted on the AECC solution, utilize IaC for the provisioning of the customer enclaves.

• Provide daily administration of the VMware products to include patching and upgrading of all VMware components.

• Monitor utilization of all virtualization resources and notify the AECC lead when additional resources will be required.

• Harden the VMware products per commercial best practices and the required government cybersecurity controls.

• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of any hosting platform issues.

• Develop and maintain system, infrastructure, and process documentation (system diagrams, network topology, software configurations, device configurations, standard operating procedures).

• Provide on-call support for triage and resolution of after-hours production incidents.

• Make recommendations for improvements to security, scalability, manageability, and performance across a wide variety of network, storage, and compute services and technologies.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Senior level experience with the VMware suite of products (ESXi, vSAN, NSX, vCloud Foundations, ARIA Automation, Tanzu).

• Strong automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) skills.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Strong troubleshooting skills across the entire technology stack - network, storage, server, and applications.

Required Certifications:

• Security+ or equivalent DoD 8570.01-M IA Tech Level II certification.

• Must have (or obtain within 6 months of hire) VMware Certified Professional (VCP), Advanced Professional (VCAP), or Design Expert (VCDX) certification in any of the following tracks:

• Data Center Virtualization

• Cloud Management and Automation

• Network Virtualization

• Application Modernization

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Working knowledge of DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) and the Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM) process