Virtualization Engineer - TS/SCI with Polygraph

GD Information Technology • Annapolis Junction, MD

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Own your opportunity to support national defense. Your work will help keep critical operations secure and connected across the global enterprise directly, contributing to a mission that protects our nation every day. CIS is growing, and we invite both our experienced incumbents and new team members to be part of what’s next. Incumbents bring invaluable mission insight, while new talent adds fresh ideas and energy. Together, we’ll strengthen continuity and drive the next generation of innovation. As a Virtualization Engineer supporting CIS, you will design, build, and enhance enterprise virtualization platforms that deliver secure, resilient, and highly available compute capabilities across diverse networks and environments. You will engineer optimized virtual and physical server solutions, develop configuration baselines, and advance automation and modernization initiatives that directly strengthen system reliability, security posture, and mission critical service delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related field, or 12+ years of relevant IT experience in lieu of a degree
• Meet DoD 8140 Information Assurance Workforce certification requirements (e.g. Security+ CE, etc.)
• VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization
• Active TS/SCI clearance with a favorable polygraph
• Hands-on experience designing, engineering, and maintaining virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere/vCenter, Hyper-V, or comparable enterprise solutions
• Strong knowledge of Windows and Linux server engineering, OS baseline creation, secure configuration, and performance tuning
• Experience conducting patch management, system hardening, vulnerability mitigation, and compliance validation for virtualized compute environments
• US citizenship required

Nice To Haves

• Cluster
• Data Center Virtualization
• Linux
• Microsoft Windows
• Systems Hardening

Responsibilities

• Engineer, integrate, and optimize virtualized compute platforms including hypervisors, clustered hosts, virtual appliances, and supporting infrastructure across Windows and Linux systems
• Develop and maintain standardized operating system baselines, server build templates, firmware versions, and configuration documentation for physical and virtual environments
• Design high availability architectures, resource efficient compute clusters, and hyperconverged solutions that increase performance, scalability, and resilience
• Conduct analysis, testing, and validation of new virtualization technologies, platform upgrades, and major system enhancements prior to production deployment
• Automate provisioning, patching, configuration, and lifecycle tasks to improve efficiency and reduce operational risk
• Provide Tier 3 engineering support for complex virtualization issues including cluster performance, hypervisor faults, networking dependencies, and storage integration challenges
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, network, storage, and operations teams to ensure engineered solutions align with security frameworks, accreditation requirements, and enterprise compliance standards
• Maintain engineering documentation including architecture diagrams, SOPs, testing results, configuration guides, and implementation packages to support lifecycle management and knowledge transfer

Benefits

• 401K with company match
• full flex work weeks where possible
• variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
• short and long-term disability benefits
• life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior