Mid-Senior Vmware Engineer with Security Clearance

Our client, a leading IT consulting firm to the federal government, is seeking a VMware Engineer to join their team supporting a virtualization program for the US Navy. This position is located in Virginia Beach, VA and requires full-time, onsite presence at the government facility. Up to 15% travel required. Responsibilities
The VMware Engineer will contribute to CVN Hull, Mechanical, and Electrical (HM&E) systems virtualization.

• Support virtualization-based O&M tasking of deployed operational Infrastructure solutions backed by Citrix, Microsoft, NetApp, Nutanix, Veeam, and VMware.

• Conduct technical investigations of customer reported issues.

• Collaborate with customer engineers and other VMware 3rd-party resources to investigate customer reported issues.

• Provide input on product direction, design, and development.

• Perform root cause analysis of customer reported issues.

• Participate in design decisions.

• Contribute to product documentation and manuals.

• Provide assistance in product training, customer meetings, and speaking engagements.

• Participate in and participate in product release planning. Minimum Qualifications

• Active DoD TS/SCI clearance.

• 5 or more years of hands-on experience providing progressively complex Enterprise IT administration or engineering support in one or more of the following areas: virtualized environments, servers, cybersecurity, endpoints, and/or networks.

• US Navy ship system experience and understanding; specifically in virtualizing Hull, Mechanical, and Electrical (HM&E) systems.

• Demonstrated experience implementing, operating, tuning, optimizing, and maintaining solutions to provide virtualization, storage, data protection, and networking services for enterprise level consumers.

• Demonstrated experience operating and maintaining enterprise-level technologies, such as Microsoft, VMware, Nutanix, NetApp, RHEL, Citrix, Cisco, or similar.

• Demonstrated experience operating and maintaining solutions in secure processing environments that utilize Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).

• Meet the Cyber IT/Cybersecurity Workforce (CSWF) System Administrator (451) Intermediate Level for SECNAV M-5239.2 compliance.

• Ability to travel up to 15%. Desired Qualifications

• Experience applying virtualization solutions to combat systems.

• Strongly desired to hold advanced certifications in a technical area, such as CCNA, NCAP, CISSP, VCP, NCDA, CCA, RHCSA, Azure Fundamentals, or similar.

• Expert knowledge of vSphere and vCloud Director; experience with ESXi, vCenter and vMotion.

• Expert knowledge of best practice VMware deployment techniques.

• Demonstrated experience leveraging vendor-provided best practices, systems, applications, and services to regularly patch and upgrade solutions. Desired Education and Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or related field or equivalent experience

• CompTIA Security+ CE

• GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC)

• Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)