Senior Virtualization Engineer

Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.
You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm investigate ideas outside of your role and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Positions is required full time onsite at Radford VA .

This position is for a Virtualization Engineer. The Solution is a Flexpod solution supported vSphere and ESXI with Cisco UCS and Cisco X-Series blades with a mix of storage from NetApp and Pure. The solution is a hyperconverged multitenant private cloud hosting environment for hosting Army enterprise and tactical applications. Its utilizing the full suite of VMware products (ESXi vSAN NSX vCloud Foundations ARIA Automation Tanzu) to implement a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) across multiple global sites. This program provides value added common and managed services built on top of the VMware foundation that hosted Army applications will require.

• Work with Government engineers to develop and maintain the architecture.
• Develop deploy and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for deployment and sustainment of the VMware suite of products.
• As applications are hosted on the solution utilize IaC for the provisioning of the customer enclaves.
• Provide daily administration of the VMware products to include patching and upgrading of all VMware components.
• Monitor utilization of all virtualization resources and notify the lead when additional resources will be required.
• Harden the VMware products per commercial best practices and the required government cybersecurity controls.
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of any hosting platform issues.
• Develop and maintain system infrastructure and process documentation (system diagrams network topology software configurations device configurations standard operating procedures).
• Provide on-call support for triage and resolution of after-hours production incidents.
• Make recommendations for improvements to security scalability manageability and performance across a wide variety of network storage and compute services and technologies.
• *** This position requires a Secret Security clearance or higher (US Citizenship is required) ***

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
*** This position requires a Secret Security clearance or higher (US Citizenship is required) ***

Required Certifications:
Security+ or equivalent DoD 8570.01-M IA Tech Level II certification.

Must have (or obtain within 6 months of hire) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Advanced Professional (VCAP) or Design Expert (VCDX) certification in any of the following tracks:

• Data Center Virtualization
• Cloud Management and Automation
• Network Virtualization
• Application Modernization
• Requires 10 years of related experience
• Senior level experience with the VMware suite of products (ESXi vSAN NSX vCloud Foundations ARIA Automation Tanzu).
• Strong automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across the entire technology stack network storage server and applications

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
Working knowledge of DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) and the Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM) process.