Virtualization / Automation Engineer (Journeyman)
About The Position
Computer World Services, Corp. (CWS) seeks a Virtualization / Automation Engineer to operate, maintain, automate, and improve the virtualization and Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) platforms supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. The platforms include VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager (SRM), and associated Infrastructure as Code capabilities. The role focuses on the hypervisor and SDDC platform layers across production, development, test, COOP, disaster-recovery, and hybrid-hosting environments. Guest operating systems, applications, databases, and cloud workloads remain with their respective teams. The engineer also supports the transition of applicable services to centralized DISA-hosting platforms through discovery, migration support, validation, and stabilization. This is a remote position, with Chicago, Illinois-area candidates preferred. Occasional on-site support, after-hours maintenance, disaster-recovery exercises, incident response, and travel may be required. An active Secret clearance or higher is required. The period of performance is March 1, 2027 through February 28, 2033, with a contract start date of March 1, 2027. Applicants acknowledge and consent to having their resume included in an active competitive Government contract bid.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience where permitted by the labor category.
- At least six years of relevant experience in virtualization, systems engineering, data-center infrastructure, platform engineering, or infrastructure automation.
- Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter, and with vSAN, NSX, SRM, or comparable software-defined storage, network-virtualization, and disaster-recovery technologies.
- Experience developing or maintaining infrastructure-automation solutions and troubleshooting issues across compute, storage, network, virtualization, and automation layers.
- Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, backup and restoration, capacity management, and lifecycle practices.
- Strong written, verbal, analytical, and technical problem-solving skills.
- Active Secret clearance or higher.
Nice To Haves
- Formal Terraform and Ansible training.
- Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation or VMware Aria, and PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, or REST APIs.
- Experience supporting federal or DoD virtualization environments and migrations to DISA enterprise-hosting platforms.
- Experience with DISA STIGs, RMF controls, vulnerability remediation, and configuration compliance.
- Experience developing Infrastructure as Code within CI/CD and Git workflows with automated testing and code scanning.
- VMware Certified Professional, HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation, ITIL 4 Foundation, or relevant cloud, security, storage, or network certification.
Responsibilities
- Configure, administer, and maintain virtualization clusters, including vSphere HA, DRS, resource pools, hosts, datastores, and distributed switches; manage ESXi and vCenter patching, upgrades, and certificates.
- Monitor platform capacity, availability, performance, and compliance, and recommend scaling, balancing, or remediation actions.
- Configure and support vSAN clusters, storage policies, and fault domains; troubleshoot performance, resynchronization, and policy-compliance issues.
- Configure and support NSX segments, transport zones, gateways, routing, and distributed security controls, coordinating changes with network and cybersecurity teams.
- Administer SRM protection groups and recovery plans; execute and document failover and failback tests; support quarterly COOP exercises and continuity events.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI, or APIs, applying version control, peer review, testing, rollback, secrets protection, and drift detection.
- Coordinate with workload owners on resource requirements, placement, templates, and snapshots while preserving the division between platform and workload ownership.
- Provide advanced engineering support for cross-platform incidents, isolate platform faults during outages, collect evidence for root-cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
- Maintain platform configuration backups, apply DISA STIGs and security baselines, and support RMF evidence, vulnerability remediation, and vendor-advisory reviews.
- Support technology refreshes and modernization, and contribute to capacity, lifecycle, and modernization assessments.
- Support DISA-hosting transitions through discovery, dependency documentation, readiness assessment, test and rollback plans, cutover, and post-migration stabilization.
- Maintain architecture diagrams, as-built documentation, SOPs, and recovery procedures; provide platform metrics and modernization status for program reporting.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
