Senior VMware Engineer

Introduction

Elluminates Software — We Make Your Infrastructure Intelligent

Build your next generation organization with advanced automation and AI tools — purpose-built for enterprise scale. We engineer intelligence into the core of infrastructure for Federal and commercial customers.

Openvista® Suite

• Hyperscaler® — AI for the operators who keep everything running. Design automations, deploy them with confidence, and manage your environment from a single platform https://hyperscaler.openvista.com

Forward Deployed Engineering Support
• Infrastructure Automation Engineers — Embed directly with your team to design and build automations purpose-built for your environment, eliminating manual toil and delivering operational efficiency at scale.

• Cloud and Data Center Engineers — We can take full ownership of designing, running, and managing your infrastructure across public cloud, private data center, or hybrid environments as a true operational partner.

Job Description

Elluminates Software Corporation is looking for a full-time Senior VMware Engineer.   This position is in support of the Department of State (DOS) as a part of the Vanguard 2025 contract. The Vanguard 2025 program provides transparent, interconnected systems and security support for the Department of State (DOS) DT program. The DT program enables the Department of State to successfully carry out its foreign policy mission by providing enterprise architecture design, engineering, operations and maintenance support services for data center services, desktop computers, servers, networks, firewalls, voice and data communications and other unique enterprise applications. 

The candidate will be responsible for the development of Virtualization solutions utilizing VMware and Storage technologies. The candidate will research, analyze, evaluate and integrate as necessary new and emerging technologies in order to find ways to deliver a superior IT environment to the bureaus in a cost effective and secure manner. The candidate will support the continuing goal of incorporating these innovative technologies into the Department’s equipment modernization program.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Execute the duties and responsibilities as a member of the Infrastructure team

• Design, integrate, and deploy VMware IT solutions.

• Rack and Stack new data center equipment

• Work with Networking team and configure virtual switching 

• Provide operational engineering support to enterprise-level solutions using virtual server hosting, and Dell storage technologies.

• Provision Virtual Machines and patches to the software and hardware hosting infrastructure.

• Update system and process documentation, user guides, diagrams and SOPs as needed.

Required Qualifications

• Red Hat Linux and RHEL Satellite Server

• Senior-level knowledge of VMware and vSphere design, integration, and deployment.

• Knowledge or training on VMware and ESX 7.0 deployment, configuration, and maintenance.

• Windows engineer or administrator experience (Active Directory, GPOs, and PowerShell scripting)

• Experience leading system integration projects as the technical lead.

• Experience working with customers to capture/document requirements.

Desired Qualifications

• VMware 8 Experience

• Experience configuring VMware NSX

• LAN/WAN networking experience

• DOS processes

Years of Experience and Education Requirements

• BS and 5 years of related experience; Masters and 3 years; Additional experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.

Type: Full-Time 
Clearance: Top Secret
Location: Springfield, VA Note: This position is expected to transition to Washington, DC in the future.  Candidates must be willing to support this relocation.
Shift: Normal Business Hours. 5 days on-site
Type of Travel: Local