{"id":3281238,"url":"https://alion.io/job/decisionpoint-corporation-virtualization-automation-engineer-journeyman","title":"Virtualization / Automation Engineer (Journeyman)","company":{"id":3863688,"name":"DecisionPoint Corporation","domain":"decisionpointcorp.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/decisionpoint-corporation","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":null},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Chicago, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":86000,"max_usd":161000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":395},"experience_years_min":6,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Ansible","optional":false},{"name":"CAPA","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"VMWare","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true},{"name":"Git","optional":true},{"name":"ITIL","optional":true},{"name":"PowerShell","optional":true},{"name":"Python","optional":true},{"name":"Rest API","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-26T16:34:33Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-26","last_verified_at":"2026-11-01T10:06:32Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":5,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":5},"description":"Overview\nDecisionPoint seeks a Virtualization / Automation Engineer to operate, maintain, automate, and improve the virtualization and Software-Defined Data Center platforms supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This position supports VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, and associated infrastructure-automation capabilities.\nThe Virtualization / Automation Engineer maintains secure, available, scalable, and recoverable platform services across production, development, testing, COOP, disaster-recovery, and hybrid-hosting environments. The engineer develops and maintains Infrastructure as Code and configuration-automation solutions that improve operational consistency, deployment speed, security, compliance, and recoverability.\nThis role is focused on the virtualization platform and its supporting automation. Routine ownership of guest operating systems, applications, databases, and cloud workloads remains with the appropriate system, application, database, and cloud teams. The engineer supports those teams by delivering and maintaining the underlying compute, storage, network-virtualization, and recovery capabilities their workloads consume.\nThe position also supports the transition of applicable infrastructure and services from on-premises environments to centralized DISA-hosting platforms through discovery, documentation, platform preparation, migration support, technical validation, and post-transition stabilization.\nThis position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred. Occasional on-site support, after-hours maintenance, incident response, and travel may be required.\nNote: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.\nDuties & Responsibilities\nThe Virtualization / Automation Engineer will:\nConfigure, administer, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize enterprise hypervisor and Software-Defined Data Center platforms. \nSupport VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, and associated platform-management capabilities. \nMaintain virtualization clusters supporting production, development, testing, COOP, and disaster-recovery environments. \nConfigure and support vSphere High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler, resource pools, clusters, hosts, datastores, distributed switches, and related platform services. \nSupport ESXi host and vCenter installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, certificate maintenance, and lifecycle activities. \nMonitor platform capacity, availability, performance, utilization, health, and configuration compliance. \nAnalyze processor, memory, storage, network, and cluster utilization and recommend corrective or capacity actions. \nConfigure and support vSAN clusters, disk groups, storage policies, capacity controls, fault domains, and health monitoring. \nTroubleshoot vSAN capacity, performance, availability, resynchronization, hardware, and policy-compliance issues. \nConfigure and support approved NSX network-virtualization capabilities, including segments, transport zones, gateways, virtual switching, routing, and distributed security controls. \nCoordinate NSX activities with network, cybersecurity, systems, application, and cloud teams. \nAdminister VMware Site Recovery Manager configurations, protection groups, inventory mappings, network mappings, and recovery plans. \nExecute and document approved recovery-plan tests, failover activities, and failback activities. \nSupport quarterly COOP exercises, disaster-recovery testing, backup restoration, and actual continuity events. \nDocument exercise results, technical deficiencies, corrective actions, and lessons learned. \nDevelop and maintain infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI, APIs, or comparable tools. \nCreate reusable modules, playbooks, scripts, templates, and workflows for provisioning, configuration, validation, patching, compliance, and recovery. \nMaintain automation code in approved version-control repositories. \nFollow established peer-review, testing, approval, release, rollback, and documentation procedures for automation changes. \nImplement appropriate logging, error handling, secrets protection, state management, and validation within automation solutions. \nAutomate repetitive administrative and configuration activities when authorized. \nSupport automated configuration-baseline checks and identify drift from approved platform standards. \nSupport infrastructure provisioning while preserving the division between platform ownership and guest operating-system, application, database, and workload ownership. \nCoordinate with system administrators and workload owners regarding resource requirements, placement, templates, snapshots, virtual hardware, and platform dependencies. \nCoordinate with storage, network, cloud, application, database, and cybersecurity teams to troubleshoot cross-platform incidents. \nProvide advanced engineering support for virtualization, software-defined storage, network virtualization, automation, and recovery issues. \nSupport outage response by isolating platform failures, restoring services, implementing approved workarounds, and providing technical status updates. \nCollect platform logs, events, performance information, configuration data, and other evidence needed for root-cause analysis. \nImplement approved corrective and preventive actions resulting from incident and problem reviews. \nMaintain backups of applicable platform configurations and support restoration testing. \nApply approved platform security baselines, patches, hardening settings, and configuration standards. \nSupport compliance with DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides and applicable vulnerability directives. \nAssist with Risk Management Framework control implementation, evidence collection, assessment support, and remediation activities. \nReview vendor notices, vulnerabilities, patches, and lifecycle information for potential platform impact. \nSupport technology refreshes and modernization activities involving compute, storage, network virtualization, hyperconverged infrastructure, and SDDC capabilities. \nAssist with assessments of platform capacity, technical debt, security gaps, lifecycle risks, and modernization opportunities. \nContribute technical information to architecture options, implementation plans, schedules, cost estimates, and engineering recommendations. \nSupport the transition of applicable infrastructure and services to centralized DISA-hosting platforms. \nPerform discovery and document existing platform inventories, configurations, interfaces, dependencies, network requirements, storage requirements, and recovery requirements. \nAssist with platform-readiness assessments and coordinate with guest operating-system, application, database, and cloud-workload owners. \nSupport migration test plans, implementation procedures, rollback plans, cutover activities, validation, and post-migration stabilization. \nCoordinate with Government stakeholders, DISA representatives, vendors, and technical teams during hosting-transition activities. \nSupport integration of SDDC capabilities with cloud, COOP, and on-premises environments. \nDevelop and maintain architecture diagrams, as-built documentation, configuration baselines, standard operating procedures, automation documentation, and recovery procedures. \nFollow approved change, release, incident, problem, configuration, security, and quality-management processes. \nProvide platform metrics, capacity information, accomplishments, risks, issues, and modernization status for program reporting. \nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nCandidates must meet all of the following requirements:\nActive Secret clearance or higher. \nBachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience where permitted by the applicable labor category. \nMinimum of six years of relevant experience in virtualization, systems engineering, data-center infrastructure, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or a related technical discipline. \nHands-on experience administering enterprise hypervisor or Software-Defined Data Center platforms. \nExperience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter in an enterprise environment. \nExperience supporting vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, or comparable software-defined storage, network-virtualization, and disaster-recovery technologies. \nExperience developing, executing, or maintaining infrastructure-automation solutions. \nExperience troubleshooting issues across virtualization, compute, storage, network, and automation layers. \nKnowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, backup, restoration, capacity management, performance monitoring, and infrastructure lifecycle practices. \nAbility to create and maintain technical procedures, automation documentation, configuration records, architecture diagrams, and recovery documentation. \nAbility to support after-hours maintenance, disaster-recovery exercises, and critical incident response when required. \nStrong written, verbal, analytical, and technical problem-solving skills. \nPreferred Qualifications\nThe following qualifications are preferred but are not required:\nFormal Terraform training. \nFormal Ansible training. \nVMware Certified Professional certification. \nHashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate certification. \nRed Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation or comparable automation certification. \nExperience with VMware Cloud Foundation or VMware Aria automation and operations capabilities. \nExperience with PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, or comparable scripting technologies. \nExperience supporting federal or Department of Defense virtualization environments. \nExperience supporting DISA-hosted services or migrations to DISA enterprise-hosting platforms. \nExperience with DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides, Risk Management Framework controls, vulnerability remediation, and configuration compliance. \nExperience integrating virtualization platforms with hybrid-cloud, COOP, or disaster-recovery environments. \nExperience developing Infrastructure as Code within controlled version-control and CI/CD workflows. \nExperience with Git, automated testing, peer review, code scanning, and configuration-drift detection. \nExperience supporting 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