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Virtualization Engineer
Contract to Hire
Radford, VA (100% onsite)
Clearance requirement: Must have an active secret clearance
We are seeking a Virtualization Engineer to support a mission-critical government environment in Radford, VA. This role is fully onsite and will work closely with Government engineers to design, deploy, and sustain a highly secure and scalable virtualization and container-based infrastructure.
What You’ll Do
As a Virtualization Engineer, you will play a key role in architecting, automating, and maintaining enterprise virtualization platforms while ensuring compliance with government cybersecurity standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Government engineers to develop and maintain AECC architecture
- Design, deploy, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for VMware environments
- Provision and sustain customer enclaves using automation and IaC
- Perform daily administration of VMware products, including patching and upgrades
- Monitor virtualization resource utilization and forecast capacity needs
- Harden VMware platforms in accordance with commercial best practices and government cybersecurity requirements
- Provide on-call support for after-hours production incident triage and resolution
Required Qualifications
- Active Secret security clearance
- Senior-level experience with VMware technologies, including:
- ESXi
- vSAN
- NSX
- vCloud Foundation
- VMware Aria Automation
- Strong automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience
- Proven troubleshooting skills across networking, storage, servers, and applications
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Working knowledge of DoD STIGs and the IAVM process
- Hands-on experience with container platforms and orchestration
- Understanding of Kubernetes networking (CNI) and storage (CSI) concepts
- Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes applications using Helm
- Experience maintaining container images in a registry
- Familiarity with GitOps principles and tools such as Argo CD or Flux
Deliverables & Impact
- Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of hosting platform issues
- Development and maintenance of system and infrastructure documentation (architecture diagrams, network topology, SOPs, configurations)
- Recommendations to improve security, scalability, manageability, and performance across compute, storage, and networking platforms
Education
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in an IT-related field