The Role
Designs, deploys, maintains, and troubleshoots VMware and Nutanix virtualization infrastructure supporting Air Force environments. Leads migrations, upgrades, capacity planning, root-cause analysis, documentation, compliance efforts, and technical solution delivery. Provides subject-matter expertise, trains engineers, collaborates with cybersecurity and network teams, supports secure infrastructure aligned with DISA STIGs and NIST standards, and participates in change control and rotational on-call support.
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Job Description
Our Partner company, Vexterra Group, is seeking a Senior Virtualization Engineer.
Responsibilities: Design, implement, and maintain complex information technology systems. To include designing the basic computing infrastructure to accomplish key tasks, establishing networking rules for cybersecurity, and troubleshooting network errors or other technical issues. Lead the development of technical solutions, from refining customer requirements through design, build, test, and deployment. Document and communicate technical solutions and results of analyses leading to recommended courses of action.
Primary duties:
- Provide operational support for VMware/Nutanix clusters Air Force District of Washington (AFDW). This include designing, deploying, configuring, and maintaining VMware/Nutanix clusters.Monitor system metrics to ensure high availability, scalability, and peak performance of the. VMware/Nutanix infrastructure.
- Perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex technical issues.
- Provides SME level support for VMware & Nutanix infrastructures and trains other engineers on its use, maintenance, and cluster analysis.
- Maintain patches and upgrades to all hyper-converged software, applications, and the underlying hardware from Nutanix and VMware.
- Lead and support projects involving the migration of virtual machines and applications from legacy platforms (e.g., VMware) to the Nutanix platform.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive virtualization documentation for system configurations, security plans, and operational procedures to support compliance audits and ensure system integrity.
- Participate in weekly Internal Design Review (IDR)/ Change Control Board (CCB).
- Collaborate with other engineers to monitor and maintain physical hosts, storage, network, and security infrastructure, reporting issues and outages as necessary to management.
- Utilize VMware Aria Operations (FKA vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS)) to monitor vCenter environment and determine future virtualization capacity.
- Work closely with cybersecurity personnel, network engineers, and application owners to deliver secure, robust, and efficient solutions; Ensure compliance with DoD mandates, including DISA STIGs and NIST SP 800-171.
- Support rotational on-call.
- Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 12+ years of related experience or a Master's degree and 10+ years of experience, additional years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree.
- Must possess an active DoD Security Clearance (Secret or Top Secret).
- 10+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering with a strong focus on VMware and/or Nutanix environments.Requires a current 8140 IAT Level II
- (Intermediate or Advanced) certificate (CompTIA Security+).
- Active VMware Certified Professional (6.0 or higher) & Active Nutanix Certified
- Professional (NCP) or Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer (NCSE).
- Verifiable experience working within a DoD or defense contractor environment, with a strong understanding of its unique operational and security demands.
- Deep knowledge of virtualization technologies, including VMware and Nutanix.
- Strong expertise in Nutanix AOS, AHV, Prism, and Flow.
- Proficiency in managing Windows Server and Linux environments.Hands-on experience implementing and managing systems compliant with DISA STIGs and NIST SP 800-171.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible or Terraform, and
- scripting languages like Python or PowerShell.Strong understanding of networking
- fundamentals, including switching, VLANs, firewalls, and micro-segmentation.
- Experience working in air-gapped or classified network environments (e.g., SIPRNet)
- is highly desirable.
- Experience Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) with Omnissa.
- Knowledge of Air Force, Pentagon, and/or AFNCR.Experience working at the
- Pentagon, Joint Base Andrews (JBA), and Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of related experience, or master’s degree and 10+ years of experience; additional relevant experience may substitute for a degree.
- Active DoD Secret or Top Secret security clearance.
- 10+ years of infrastructure engineering experience focused on VMware and/or Nutanix environments.
- Current DoD 8140 IAT Level II Intermediate or Advanced certification, such as CompTIA Security+.
- Active VMware Certified Professional certification, version 6.0 or higher.
- Active Nutanix Certified Professional or Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer certification.
- Verifiable experience in a DoD or defense contractor environment.
- Deep knowledge of virtualization technologies, including VMware and Nutanix.
- Strong expertise in Nutanix AOS, AHV, Prism, and Flow.
- Proficiency managing Windows Server and Linux environments.
- Hands-on experience implementing systems compliant with DISA STIGs and NIST SP 800-171.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience with Ansible or Terraform.
- Scripting experience with Python or PowerShell.
- Strong networking fundamentals, including switching, VLANs, firewalls, and micro-segmentation.
- Experience in air-gapped or classified network environments, such as SIPRNet.
- Virtual desktop infrastructure experience with Omnissa.
- Knowledge of the Air Force, Pentagon, and/or AFNCR.
- Experience working at the Pentagon, Joint Base Andrews, or Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling.
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The Company
What We Do
We are an engineering company that has been providing extensive support to Federal Government clients in global communications and networks, Cyber, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Analytics technologies for more than 16 years.
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