Senior Virtualization / Automation Engineer

DecisionPoint Corporation

. Design, configure, administer, maintain, and optimize enterprise hypervisor and Software-Defined Data Center platforms .

Posted 10/26/2026full-timeChicago • Illinois • United StatesSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in managing and optimizing enterprise hypervisor and Software-Defined Data Center platforms, with a strong focus on VMware technologies and infrastructure automation. Capable of developing architecture diagrams, technical documentation, and recovery plans while ensuring compliance with security standards and best practices.

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VMware vSphere AdministrationInfrastructure AutomationDisaster Recovery PlanningSite Recovery Manager SupportHypervisor Management

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Hard Skills

VMware vSphereESXiVCenterVSANNSXTerraformAnsiblePowerCLIPythonREST APIs

Soft Skills

Analytical Problem-SolvingStrong Written CommunicationVerbal Communication

Tools & Technologies

Software-Defined Data CenterAutomation DocumentationConfiguration ManagementCapacity ManagementPerformance Management

Certifications & Qualifications

VMware Certified ProfessionalHashiCorp Certified: Terraform AssociateRed Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible AutomationITIL v4 Foundation

Industry Keywords

DISA STIGsRMF ControlsVulnerability RemediationHybrid-Cloud IntegrationData-Center Modernization

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleCloudCyber SecurityPythonSwitchingTerraformVMware

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, configure, administer, maintain, and optimize enterprise hypervisor and Software-Defined Data Center platforms
Own VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, and platform-management capabilities
Establish platform architecture, configuration standards, operational procedures, and engineering roadmaps
Build and maintain highly available virtualization clusters for production, development, testing, and recovery environments
Configure and optimize vSphere HA, DRS, resource pools, clusters, hosts, datastores, distributed switches, and related services
Manage hosts, vCenter services, certificates, licensing, upgrades, patches, firmware dependencies, and security configurations
Monitor capacity, availability, utilization, performance, health, and configuration compliance
Engineer and troubleshoot vSAN clusters, storage policies, fault domains, capacity controls, and recovery processes
Engineer and support NSX network virtualization, including segments, transport zones, gateways, routing, switching, and distributed security controls
Administer Site Recovery Manager protection groups, recovery plans, inventory mappings, network mappings, and recovery priorities
Develop, test, document, and maintain automated failover and failback procedures
Support COOP exercises, disaster-recovery tests, system restoration, and continuity events
Design and implement infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI, APIs, or comparable tools
Develop reusable modules, playbooks, scripts, templates, and pipelines for provisioning, configuration, validation, patching, compliance, and recovery
Implement error handling, logging, secrets protection, state management, rollback, and validation in automation solutions
Establish automated configuration checks and identify configuration drift
Coordinate with system administrators, workload owners, storage, network, cloud, cybersecurity, application, DISA, government, and vendor teams
Provide Tier 4 engineering support for complex virtualization, storage, network virtualization, automation, and recovery incidents
Conduct root-cause analyses and develop corrective and preventive actions
Maintain platform configuration backups and test restoration procedures
Align platform standards with DISA STIGs, vulnerability directives, RMF controls, and approved security requirements
Support technology refreshes, modernization, migration planning, and transitions to centralized DISA-hosting platforms
Perform discovery, dependency analysis, readiness assessments, migration waves, test plans, rollback plans, cutovers, validation, and stabilization
Integrate SDDC capabilities with cloud, COOP, and on-premises environments
Maintain architecture diagrams, as-built documentation, configuration baselines, SOPs, automation documentation, recovery procedures, and engineering records
Provide platform metrics, capacity data, risks, issues, accomplishments, and modernization status for program reporting

Requirements

What you’ll need

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 eight years of relevant experience in virtualization, systems engineering, data-center infrastructure, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or a related technical discipline
Hands-on experience engineering or 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 or maintaining infrastructure-automation solutions
Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical enterprise infrastructure
Experience troubleshooting complex issues across compute, storage, network, virtualization, and automation layers
Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, backup, restoration, capacity management, performance management, and infrastructure lifecycle practices
Ability to develop architecture diagrams, technical procedures, automation documentation, recovery plans, and engineering recommendations
Ability to support after-hours maintenance, disaster-recovery exercises, and critical incident response when required
Strong written, verbal, analytical, and technical problem-solving skills
Preferred: Formal Terraform training; formal Ansible training; VMware Certified Professional; advanced VMware certification; HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate; Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation or comparable certification; VMware Cloud Foundation or VMware Aria; PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, REST APIs; federal or Department of Defense virtualization; DISA-hosted services or migrations; DoD STIGs, RMF controls, vulnerability remediation, and configuration compliance; hybrid-cloud, COOP, and disaster-recovery integration; Infrastructure as Code in controlled CI/CD and version-control workflows; Git, automated testing, peer review, code scanning, and configuration-drift detection; large-scale migrations or data-center modernization; ITIL v4 Foundation; relevant cloud, security, storage, or network certification

Benefits

Comp & perks

Regular full-time employment
Occasional on-site support, after-hours maintenance, incident response, and travel may be required
Opportunity to support technology refreshes and modernization initiatives
Opportunity to work on federal/Department of Defense infrastructure and DISA-hosting transitions