Sr. Virtualization Systems Engineer/Architect (Hybrid)

A.C. Coy•Raleigh, NC

2h•Hybrid

About The Position

Tier One Technologies is seeking a Sr. Virtualization Systems Engineer/Architect to support our direct US Government client. This hybrid Contract-to-Hire position will be located in Raleigh, NC. SELECTED CANDIDATES WITHOUT REQUIRED CLEARANCE WILL BE SUBJECT TO A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION TO RECEIVE IT.

Requirements

A degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services is required. If the individual's degree is not in the applicable field, then four additional years of related experience is required.
13+ years of professional experience in supporting virtualization technologies.
Basic understanding of data center networking (TCP/IP, switching/routing, ports and protocols, firewall concepts, load-balancing).
Strong, demonstrable scripting experience in one or more of the following: PowerShell, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, VBScript, C++, Unix Shell, Python, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, etc.
Basic understanding of storage protocols (e.g. NFS, SMB, S3, FC, iSCSI, NVMe).
Good knowledge of Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Group Policy.
Knowledge of MS Windows Server operating systems including Server 2016, 2019, and 2022 as well as RHEL and SLES operating systems.
Knowledge of MS database server SQL Server 2008 R2 and later.
Knowledge of container technologies including but not limited to Docker, Kubernetes, and Rancher.
Knowledge of IaaS in cloud using MS Azure, AWS, or GCP.
Experience with hardening and improving the security of Windows operating systems and hardware platforms, local area networks, wide area networks, messaging, and client-server applications.
Ability to develop and maintain IT documentation.
Expertise working with vendors to resolve problems and implement solutions independently.
Excellent communication skills.
Must be eligible to obtain a Position of Public Trust clearance.
All candidates must be a US Citizen or have permanent residence status (Green Card).
Candidate must have lived in the United States for the past 5 years.
Cannot have more than 6 months travel outside the United States within the last 5 years. Military Service excluded.

Responsibilities

Act as a Subject Matter Expert on best practices for server virtualizations solutions and make recommendations.
Responsible for the design, configuration, deployment, integration, and maintenance and support of server virtualization and server infrastructure solutions.
Specialize in building and managing virtual computing platforms.
Play a critical role in data migration, virtual machine lifecycle management, troubleshooting, tuning and performance, and monitoring of the environment.
Provide technical assistance and advice on complex activities. Formulate and define specifications, develop, modify and maintain complex systems and subsystems, using vendor engineering releases and utilities for overall operational systems.
Apply analytical techniques when gathering information from users, defining work problems, designing technology solutions, and developing procedures to resolve the problems.
Develop complete specifications to enable computer programmers to prepare required programs.
Review task proposal requirements, gather information, analyze data, prepare project synopses, compare alternatives, prepare specifications, resolve processing problems, coordinate work with programmers and engineers, and orient users to new systems.
Work with considerable freedom to make decisions on the techniques and approaches to be used.
Prepare recommendations for system improvement for management and user consideration.
Architect and design server virtualization solutions.
Perform systems administration for Windows Server and UNIX / Linux systems such as RHEL and SLES.
Develop automation through scripting and APIs (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, PowerShell, Python, Bash, Terraform).
Perform certificate lifecycle management for systems and applications.
Evaluate inefficiencies with server resources and make right-sizing recommendations.
Manage and maintain server virtualization platform on premise as well as cloud e.g. VMware, Nutanix, Harvester, OpenShift, Proxmox, Azure, AWS, GCP.
Play a lead role in meetings relating to specific technical projects or tasks.
Respond promptly to incidents in ServiceNow.
Diagnose and repair system problems working closely with vendor support for all servers, software and other hardware directly or with the team members.
Define, monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot system performance of all server virtualization and other related infrastructure systems.