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Virtualization/Automation Engineer – Journeyman
DecisionPoint Corporation. Configure, administer, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize enterprise hypervisor and Software-Defined Data Center platforms .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in configuring, administering, and optimizing enterprise hypervisor and Software-Defined Data Center platforms, with a strong focus on VMware technologies and infrastructure automation. Proficient in disaster recovery, capacity management, and compliance with security standards.
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VMware vSphere AdministrationInfrastructure Automation with TerraformDisaster Recovery PlanningSite Recovery Manager SupportConfiguration Compliance Monitoring
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Hard Skills
VMware ESXiVCenterVSANNSXPowerCLIPythonREST APIsInfrastructure as CodeCapacity ManagementPerformance Monitoring
Soft Skills
Analytical Problem-SolvingTechnical DocumentationCommunication SkillsCollaboration
Tools & Technologies
TerraformAnsibleGitCI/CD WorkflowsDISA STIGs
Certifications & Qualifications
Active Secret ClearanceVMware Certified ProfessionalHashiCorp Certified: Terraform AssociateRed Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible AutomationITIL v4 Foundation
Industry Keywords
Software-Defined Data CenterVirtualizationData-Center InfrastructureFederal Virtualization EnvironmentsRisk Management Framework
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAnsibleCloudCyber SecurityPythonTerraformVMware
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- 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 high availability, resource scheduling, resource pools, clusters, hosts, datastores, distributed switches, and related platform services
- Install, configure, patch, upgrade, and maintain ESXi hosts and vCenter
- Monitor platform capacity, availability, performance, utilization, health, and configuration compliance
- Configure and troubleshoot vSAN clusters and NSX network-virtualization capabilities
- Administer Site Recovery Manager protection groups, mappings, recovery plans, failover, and failback activities
- Execute and document recovery-plan tests, COOP exercises, disaster-recovery testing, backup restoration, and continuity events
- 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 and follow peer-review, testing, approval, release, rollback, and documentation procedures
- Support automated configuration-baseline checks and identify configuration drift
- Coordinate with system, storage, network, cloud, application, database, cybersecurity, vendor, and Government teams
- Provide advanced engineering support, outage response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and technical status updates
- Apply security baselines, patches, hardening settings, DISA STIGs, vulnerability directives, and Risk Management Framework controls
- Support technology refreshes, modernization, capacity assessments, technical-debt reviews, security-gap assessments, and lifecycle planning
- Support migration discovery, readiness assessments, test plans, implementation, rollback, cutover, validation, and post-migration stabilization for centralized DISA-hosting platforms
- Develop architecture diagrams, as-built documentation, configuration baselines, standard operating procedures, automation documentation, and recovery procedures
- Provide platform metrics, capacity information, accomplishments, risks, issues, 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 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
- Formal Terraform training preferred
- Formal Ansible training preferred
- VMware Certified Professional certification preferred
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate certification preferred
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation or comparable automation certification preferred
- Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation or VMware Aria automation and operations capabilities preferred
- Experience with PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, or comparable scripting technologies preferred
- Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense virtualization environments preferred
- Experience supporting DISA-hosted services or migrations to DISA enterprise-hosting platforms preferred
- Experience with DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides, Risk Management Framework controls, vulnerability remediation, and configuration compliance preferred
- Experience integrating virtualization platforms with hybrid-cloud, COOP, or disaster-recovery environments preferred
- Experience developing Infrastructure as Code within controlled version-control and CI/CD workflows preferred
- Experience with Git, automated testing, peer review, code scanning, and configuration-drift detection preferred
- Experience supporting data-center modernization, platform migrations, or hosting transitions preferred
- ITIL v4 Foundation certification preferred
- Relevant cloud, security, storage, or network certification preferred
Benefits
Comp & perks- Remote work arrangement
- Occasional on-site support, after-hours maintenance, incident response, and travel may be required
- Opportunity to support technology refreshes and modernization activities
- Opportunity to support infrastructure and service transitions to centralized DISA-hosting platforms