DTRA Virtualization Engineer- Active secret and higher - HYBRID with Security Clearance

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Job description

As a Virtualization Engineer, Senior you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on Virtualization Engineer, Senior joining our team to support the design, engineering, implementation, and operations and support of the Defense Integration and Management of Nuclear Data Services (DIAMONDS) application supports the management of the nuclear weapons stockpile accountability management and all related systems.
How a Virtualization Engineer, Senior will Make an Impact:
• Works directly with various teams within the Enterprise group and the team in Albuquerque.
• Daily interactions using Teams Chat, in-person discussions, and contact with professional services.
• The VM team is a small but highly effective team. The Enterprise section is great at supporting across the different specialties.
• Maintaining the existing VMware vSphere 7.x environment.
• Must be proficient with the following: vSphere HA, vCenter HA, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), VMotion, Certificate management, Key Management System, Enhanced Link Mode, VCSA Backup and Recovery, Host Profile, Network configurations such as VMKernel, VMNic, distributed switch configurations, Content Libraries, and vSAN storage policies.
• Candidate should be knowledgeable with how a network communicates to software and hardware appliances, including failover, Fault Tolerance, and RAID.
• Maintaining VSAN 7.0 (all-flash) SSD data storage systems.
• Knowledge with configuration of virtual Switches and VLANs.
• Designing and building virtual environment service models including Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service.
• Ability to provide design, analysis, development, integration, documentation, testing, implementation, and user support.
• Ability to perform lifecycle replacements of hardware (ability to lift 50lbs - rack hosts)
• Understand power requirements/needs to support racked hardware.
• Work closely with the user community and provide seamless support of virtual computing issues.
• Ensuring ESXI and uptime to Central/Core virtual computing environment meets the Monthly DRRS availability rate (current DRRS rate is 99.7%).
• Familiarity with vROPs (ARIA Operations), SRM, vRA, and Horizon 7 DELL EMC server hardware.
• Their relevant skills and technology will be used daily to ensure a secure and robust VM environment.
What You'll Need to Succeed:
Education:
• Bachelor or Arts or Science Required Experience:
• Enter specific number of years/months of (GENERAL OR RELATED) experience: 5+ Required Technical Skills:
• VMWare Certified Professional (ex. Data Center v7.x) Security Clearance Level:
• Secret to start w/SCI eligibility Required Skills and Abilities:
• Provides guidance to less-experienced system engineers; may coach and review the work of less experienced professionals; may serve as a team or task lead
• Proficient in: vSphere HA, vCenter HA, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), VMotion, Certificate management, Key Management System, Enhanced Link Mode, VCSA Backup and Recovery, Host Profile, Network configurations such as VMKernel, VMNic, distributed switch configurations, Content Libraries, and vSAN storage policies. Preferred Skills:
• VMware vSphere 7.x, ESXi, storage, and design/build virtual environment Location: • Hybrid but this is mission specific and will be discussed with the Enterprise lead. Citizenship Required:
• US Citizenship
Frequently Asked Vendor Questions:
• What is the mission of the program/contract? The design, engineering, implementation, and operations and support of the Defense Integration and Management of Nuclear Data Services (DIAMONDS) application supports the management of the nuclear weapons stockpile accountability management and all related systems.
• What will a typical workday look like for the Contractor? Is this a team setting? Systems checks, team meeting, supporting projects and tasks.
• What are the top three skillsets the candidate should have? Please list top THREE only. VMware vSphere 7.x, migration, vCenter
• What is the interview process? How many interviews until decision is made? Audio only or audio/video or in-person? Audio only, ideally, only 1 interview
• What government agency/customer does the contract support? Defense Threat Reduction Agency
• What is the length of the contract? What Option Year is it currently in? When is re-compete? 5-year contract, we are in OY2, there is no timeline for the re-compete
• If applicable, what is the Hybrid schedule? Yes, but mission specific and will be agreed to by the Enterprise lead

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