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This position is for a Virtualization Engineer supporting the Army Edge Computing Capability (AECC) project that ALTESS is fielding for the U.S. Army. AECC is a hyperconverged multitenant private cloud hosting environment for Army enterprise and tactical applications. The solution leverages VMware products (ESXi vSAN NSX vCloud Foundation ARIA Automation) to implement a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) across multiple global sites. ALTESS operates as a managed service provider (MSP) under Program Executive Office Enterprise (PEO Enterprise) delivering value-added common and managed services for hosted Army applications.
Responsibilities:
- Develop deploy and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for VMware suite deployment and sustainment within AECC.
- Utilize IaC for provisioning customer enclaves as applications are hosted on AECC.
- Administer VMware products daily including patching and upgrading all components.
- Monitor virtualization resource utilization and alert AECC leadership when additional capacity is needed.
- Harden VMware products using commercial best practices and government cybersecurity controls.
- Troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis for hosting platform issues.
- Create and maintain documentation including system diagrams network topology configurations and SOPs.
- Provide on-call support for after-hours production incident triage and resolution.
- Recommend improvements for security scalability manageability and performance across network storage and compute services.
- Extensive experience with the VMware suite (ESXi vSAN NSX vCloud Foundation ARIA Automation) including deployment administration and optimization.
- Advanced automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) expertise for streamlining virtualization operations.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across the full technology stack—network storage server and applications—paired with excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
- Must live within 50 miles of Radford VA as this job requires in person work at least 3 days per week
- Must hold and maintain an Active DoD Secret clearance
- Working knowledge of DoD STIGs and the Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM) process.
- Hands-on experience with container platforms and orchestration including Kubernetes networking (CNI) storage (CSI) Helm chart management and container image maintenance.
- Experience with GitOps principles and tools (e.g. Argo CD Flux) for automated deployments and configuration management.