Virtualization Engineer

Location: Melbourne, FL

Years’ Experience: 6+

Education: Bachelor’s degree required.

Clearance: Applicants must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance. United States Citizenship is required as part of the eligibility criteria to be able to obtain this type of security clearance.

Key Skills:

·         Leading the management of VMware, Hyper-V, or similar technologies.

·         Experience as a Virtualization Lead, leading system upgrades, migrations, and continue to evolve the existing architecture

·         Experience leading the installation, configuration, and maintenance of virtual machines (VMs) and virtual infrastructure across on-prem and CSP provided data centers.

Responsibilities

•        Designing, building, implementing, and troubleshooting information systems hosted on VMware, AWS, and Azure.

•        Planning, designing, troubleshooting and ongoing optimization of virtualization environment.

•        Lead system upgrades, migrations, and continue to evolve the existing architecture

•        Assists in the creation, maintenance/administration, and troubleshooting of the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE)

•        Manage and balance virtual machine resources across hosts in the clusters.

•        Maintains awareness of new virtualization products and administration methods.

•        Lead the installation, configuration, and maintenance of virtual machines (VMs) and virtual infrastructure across on-prem and CSP provided data centers through VMware orchestration tools.

•        Connect host or VM to network and storage components and configure

•        Monitoring and optimizing the performance of virtual environments, ensuring efficient resource allocation.

•        Diagnosing and resolving complex issues related to virtualization, including VM performance, connectivity, and security.

•        Implementing and managing advanced backup and disaster recovery solutions for virtual environments.

•        Ensuring the security of virtual environments by applying patches, updates, and security configurations.

•        Maintaining comprehensive documentation of virtualization configurations, procedures, and policies.

•        Working closely with other IT teams to support virtualization needs and integrate virtual solutions with other systems.

•        Using Ansible Automation, IaC and Version Control

•        Configure, troubleshoot, and design large, complex systems using RedHat Satellite servers

•        Maintain operating system reliability across RHEL 8, 9, and 10.

•        Providing guidance and mentorship to junior virtualization administrators and other IT staff.

•        Researching and reporting on new technologies and how they provide value to the organization.

•        Implementing and managing backup and disaster recovery solutions to ensure data integrity and availability.

•        Travels to sites as necessary for hands-on troubleshooting and support of new system fielding.

Qualifications

·         Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance.

·         6+ years of professional experience in Virtualization administration with focus on leading VMware, Hyper-V, and other similar technologies.

·         Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field or equivalent professional experience.

·         Must be able to be onsite in Melbourne, FL Monday – Friday for project execution.

·         Experience as a Virtualization Lead, leading system upgrades, migrations, and continue to evolve the existing architecture.

·         Experience leading the installation, configuration, and maintenance of virtual machines (VMs) and virtual infrastructure across on-prem and CSP provided data centers.

·         Experience with overseeing on-prem hardware infrastructure (e.g., servers and storage), the on-prem hypervisor (Hyper-V) environment (e.g., VMWare, vSphere), and CSP infrastructure.

·         Experience overseeing the installation, configuration, and maintenance of virtual machines (VMs), virtual infrastructure, and physical infrastructure (including rack mounting and hardware configuration).

·         Experience monitoring the performance of virtual environments and optimizing resource allocation to ensure efficient operation.

·         Experience diagnosing and resolving issues related to virtualization, including VM performance, connectivity, and security.

·         Experience with the automation of IT administration and server provisioning using tools such as:

o   Infrastructure as Code (IaC): AWS CDK, Terraform, OpenTofu, and Puppet

o   Ansible Automation: Experience with Ansible Tower and Ansible Playbooks

o   Version Control: Git, GitLab, Bitbucket

o   Comprehensive understanding of RedHat Satellite Linux and ability to configure, troubleshoot, and design large systems using RedHat Satellite servers.

o   RHEL Deployment and Maintenance: Understanding of deployment requirements for RHEL 8, 9, and 10.

o   Scripting: Python, Perl, Bash

·         Experience integrating infrastructure management tools with APIs to enable deployment of Infrastructure as Code integrated into CI/CD deployment pipelines.

·         Experience in systems engineering or other engineering roles in an aerospace program environment a bonus.

·         Customer service driven.

·         Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

·         Must be detail oriented.