Infrastructure Lead (VMware vSphere)
About The Position
The Infrastructure Lead will support a new Defense Health Agency program, contingent upon contract award. The role leads the infrastructure team operating a VMware vSphere environment of more than 2,000 virtual machines across two disconnected DoD enclaves in Chantilly, Virginia. The position serves as technical lead for virtualization engineers and system administrators and reports to the program manager. The lead owns the plan to consolidate the environment onto fewer, denser hosts in a smaller footprint without disrupting program test events. The role works alongside platform engineers building environments as code and a cyber team responsible for keeping systems authorized. Work is on site at the Chantilly test center, with work at the Ashburn, Virginia data center as needed. The start date will align with the program start.
Requirements
- 10 or more years designing and operating VMware vSphere, including environments of 1,000 or more VMs.
- Experience leading infrastructure engineers or administrators as a supervisor or technical lead.
- A professional-level VMware certification (VCP-DCV or higher) or equivalent experience.
- Experience leading a host consolidation, hardware refresh, major version upgrade, or data center migration.
- Hands-on automation experience with Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI, or a similar tool.
- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain the investigation designated by the DHA for privileged access.
- DoD 8140 qualification for a privileged infrastructure role, or the ability to earn it within six months.
Nice To Haves
- An active Secret clearance or higher.
- VCAP, VCDX, or VMware Cloud Foundation experience.
- Air-gapped or classified environment experience.
- Experience on a DoD or federal health contract, or supporting health IT or test-lab environments.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of virtualization engineers and system administrators by setting priorities, assigning and reviewing work, and developing the team.
- Own the design and operation of vSphere 8 clusters, vCenter, vSAN, and NSX across two enclaves.
- Plan and run the consolidation and right-sizing program, including dormant VM disposition, memory and CPU right-sizing, and reducing the number of active hosts.
- Plan the path from vSphere 8 to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.
- Chair infrastructure change control and report status, risks, and capacity to the program manager.
- Keep hosts and VMs patched and STIG-compliant, and support RMF evidence for authorizations.
- Set the automation standard for VM builds and configuration using Terraform, Packer, and Ansible in GitLab CI.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
