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Company Name: - JTSi (Johnson Technology Systems, Inc.)
Title: AECC Virtualization Engineer - Systems Engineer - Senior
Location: Radford,VA
Citizenship: US
Position Overview
This position is for a Virtualization Engineer supporting the Army Edge Computing Capability (AECC) project that ALTESS is fielding for the US Army. The AECC solution is a hyperconverged, multitenant private cloud hosting environment for hosting Army enterprise and tactical applications. AECC is currently utilizing VMware products (ESXi, vSAN, NSX, vCloud Foundations, ARIA Automation) to implement a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) across multiple global sites. ALTESS provides value-added common and managed services that hosted Army applications will require. ALTESS is a managed service provider (MSP) and hosting services provider for Army applications. ALTESS is a Product Director office under Program Executive Office Enterprise (PEO Enterprise).
Position Duties
Bachelor's degree or higher in an IT-related field.
Required Certifications
JTSi is a federal government consulting firm, providing technical services to the Federal Government, i.e., DoD, Client and various Civilian Agencies. We are proud to have earned the reputation of honesty, integrity and the ability to build long-term professional relationships with our employees and clients. Please visit our website at www.JTSUSA.com to learn more about who we are and what we do.
Company Name: - JTSi (Johnson Technology Systems, Inc.)
Title: AECC Virtualization Engineer - Systems Engineer - Senior
Location: Radford,VA
Citizenship: US
Position Overview
This position is for a Virtualization Engineer supporting the Army Edge Computing Capability (AECC) project that ALTESS is fielding for the US Army. The AECC solution is a hyperconverged, multitenant private cloud hosting environment for hosting Army enterprise and tactical applications. AECC is currently utilizing VMware products (ESXi, vSAN, NSX, vCloud Foundations, ARIA Automation) to implement a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) across multiple global sites. ALTESS provides value-added common and managed services that hosted Army applications will require. ALTESS is a managed service provider (MSP) and hosting services provider for Army applications. ALTESS is a Product Director office under Program Executive Office Enterprise (PEO Enterprise).
Position Duties
- Work with Government engineers to develop and maintain the AECC architecture.
- Develop, deploy, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for deployment and sustainment of the VMware suite of products in the AECC.
- As applications are hosted on the AECC 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 AECC 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.
- Senior-level experience with the VMware suite of products (ESXi, vSAN, NSX, vCloud Foundations, ARIA Automation).
- 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.
- Working knowledge of DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) and the Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM) process.
- Hands-on experience with container platforms and container orchestration.
- Understanding of Kubernetes networking (CNI) and storage (CSI) principles.
- Experience with managing Kubernetes applications using Helm charts and maintaining container images in a registry.
- Experience with GitOps principles and tools (e.g., Argo CD, Flux).
Bachelor's degree or higher in an IT-related field.
Required Certifications
- Security or equivalent DoD 8570.01-M IA Tech Level II certification.