System Administrator / Virtual Administrator

ESM • Dayton, OH

2d • $79,000 - $96,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Enterprise Solutions and Management (ESM) is a rapidly growing government contractor that provides strategic IT services that meet mission needs for Defense and Federal customers. We are hiring a System Administrator / Virtual Administrator to support an enterprise-level program within a federal environment.

Requirements

• Knowledge of virtualization technologies, hypervisors, virtual machines, and supporting infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Ability to implement, upgrade, patch, and maintain virtualized systems across development, test, and production environments.
• Ability to monitor and troubleshoot virtualization infrastructure to maintain system availability, stability, security, and performance.
• Knowledge of cloud computing and private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Ability to perform capacity planning, performance analysis, tuning, and optimization of virtualized systems.
• Knowledge of virtualization disaster recovery, fault tolerance, configuration management, and system documentation practices.
• Seven (7) years of progressive experience in the management and maintenance of virtualized server environments and hosted applications.
• At least two years of qualifying experience must include managing successful large scale, multi-disciplinary (network, virtualization, systems administration) projects involving virtual servers.
• DOD 8570 baseline certification - IAT Level II
• Top Secret Clearance

Nice To Haves

• Be a positive, self-motivated, and proactive person with the ability to adapt to change and tolerate stressful situations
• Candidate must communicate effectively with team members, team lead, management, and government customers
• Must have the ability and desire to research and develop creative solutions to unique problems with minimal supervision

Responsibilities

• Manages and maintains virtualized infrastructure across on-premises data centers and private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Implements, upgrades, patches, and troubleshoots hosts, hypervisors, virtual machines, applications, and supporting infrastructure across development, test, pre-production, and production environments.
• Monitors system health, performance, capacity, and availability; automates administrative tasks and optimizes virtualized environments to ensure stability, security, and performance.
• Maintains accurate system configurations and documentation, supports capacity planning and performance tuning, and contributes to virtualization disaster recovery and fault-tolerance planning.
• Other duties as assigned

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed