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This senior engineering position owns the hypervisor and SDDC platform layers, including VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, and associated infrastructure-automation capabilities.\nThe Virtualization / Automation Engineer maintains reliable, secure, and scalable platform services across production, development, testing, COOP, disaster-recovery, and hybrid-hosting environments. The position develops Infrastructure as Code and configuration-automation solutions that improve consistency, deployment speed, recoverability, security, and operational visibility.\nThis role is focused on virtualization-platform engineering and automation. Routine ownership of guest operating systems, applications, databases, and cloud workloads remains with the appropriate system, application, database, and cloud teams. The engineer establishes and maintains the underlying platform capabilities those teams consume and coordinates closely with them to resolve cross-layer issues.\nThe engineer also supports the transition of applicable services from on-premises infrastructure to centralized DISA-hosting platforms. This includes discovery, dependency analysis, platform readiness, migration planning, technical validation, cutover support, 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:\nDesign, configure, administer, maintain, and optimize enterprise hypervisor and Software-Defined Data Center platforms. \nServe as the senior engineering owner for VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, and associated platform-management capabilities. \nEstablish platform architecture, configuration standards, operational procedures, and engineering roadmaps. \nBuild and maintain highly available virtualization clusters supporting production, development, testing, and recovery environments. \nConfigure and optimize vSphere High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler, resource pools, clusters, hosts, datastores, distributed switches, and related platform services. \nManage ESXi hosts, vCenter services, platform certificates, licensing, upgrades, patches, firmware dependencies, and approved security configurations. \nMonitor platform capacity, availability, utilization, performance, health, and configuration compliance. \nAnalyze processor, memory, storage, network, and cluster utilization and recommend scaling, balancing, or remediation actions. \nEngineer and maintain vSAN clusters, disk groups, storage policies, fault domains, capacity controls, health monitoring, and recovery processes. \nTroubleshoot vSAN performance, availability, resynchronization, capacity, hardware, and policy-compliance issues. \nEngineer and support NSX network-virtualization capabilities, including segments, transport zones, gateways, routing, switching, distributed security controls, and platform connectivity. \nCoordinate NSX changes with network, cybersecurity, application, and cloud teams. \nAdminister and maintain VMware Site Recovery Manager configurations, protection groups, recovery plans, inventory mappings, network mappings, and recovery priorities. \nDevelop, test, document, and maintain automated failover and failback procedures. \nSupport COOP exercises, disaster-recovery tests, system-restoration activities, and actual continuity events. \nValidate platform recovery objectives and document exercise results, deficiencies, corrective actions, and lessons learned. \nDesign and implement infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI, APIs, or comparable tools. \nDevelop reusable modules, playbooks, scripts, templates, and pipelines for provisioning, configuration, validation, patching, compliance, and recovery. \nStore automation code in approved version-control repositories and follow established review, testing, approval, and release practices. \nImplement appropriate error handling, logging, secrets protection, state management, rollback, and validation within automation solutions. \nEliminate repetitive manual activities through secure, tested, and supportable automation. \nEstablish automated configuration checks and identify drift from approved platform baselines. \nSupport infrastructure provisioning while preserving the division between virtualization-platform ownership and guest operating-system, application, database, or workload ownership. \nCoordinate with system administrators and workload owners on resource requirements, virtual-machine placement, templates, snapshots, virtual hardware, and platform dependencies. \nCoordinate with storage, network, cloud, cybersecurity, and application teams to diagnose cross-platform incidents. \nProvide Tier 4 engineering support for complex virtualization, storage, network-virtualization, automation, and recovery incidents. \nSupport outage response by isolating platform faults, restoring affected capabilities, implementing approved workarounds, and providing technical status information. \nConduct root-cause analyses and develop corrective and preventive actions for recurring platform incidents. \nMaintain current backups of applicable platform configurations and test restoration procedures. \nDevelop and enforce platform standards aligned with DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides, vulnerability directives, and approved security requirements. \nSupport Risk Management Framework control implementation, technical evidence collection, remediation, and assessment activities for the virtualization platform. \nEvaluate platform vulnerabilities, vendor advisories, security patches, and configuration changes for operational impact. \nSupport technology refreshes and modernization initiatives involving compute, storage, network virtualization, hyperconverged infrastructure, and SDDC capabilities. \nAssess existing virtualization capabilities, technical debt, capacity constraints, security gaps, and lifecycle risks. \nDevelop platform roadmaps, technical options, migration approaches, rough-order cost estimates, and implementation recommendations. \nSupport the transition of applicable infrastructure and services to centralized DISA-hosting platforms. \nPerform discovery and document platform inventories, configurations, interdependencies, interfaces, network requirements, storage requirements, recovery requirements, and migration constraints. \nAssess workload and platform readiness while coordinating with the teams responsible for guest operating systems, applications, databases, and cloud workloads. \nDevelop and support migration waves, test plans, rollback plans, cutover procedures, validation criteria, and stabilization activities. \nCoordinate with DISA, Government stakeholders, vendors, and technical teams during hosting-transition activities. \nIntegrate SDDC capabilities with cloud, COOP, and on-premises environments to support workload mobility, resilient operations, and enterprise service orchestration. \nDevelop and maintain architecture diagrams, as-built documentation, configuration baselines, standard operating procedures, automation documentation, recovery procedures, and engineering records. \nFollow approved change, release, configuration, incident, problem, security, and quality-management processes. \nProvide platform metrics, capacity data, risks, issues, accomplishments, 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 eight years of relevant experience in virtualization, systems engineering, data-center infrastructure, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or a related technical discipline. \nHands-on experience engineering or 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 or maintaining infrastructure-automation solutions. \nExperience supporting highly available, mission-critical enterprise infrastructure. \nExperience troubleshooting complex issues across compute, storage, network, virtualization, and automation layers. \nKnowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, backup, restoration, capacity management, performance management, and infrastructure lifecycle practices. \nAbility to develop architecture diagrams, technical procedures, automation documentation, recovery plans, and engineering recommendations. \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. \nVMware Certified Advanced Professional or another advanced VMware 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 DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides, Risk Management Framework controls, vulnerability remediation, and configuration compliance. \nExperience integrating virtualization platforms with hybrid-cloud, COOP, and disaster-recovery environments. \nExperience developing Infrastructure as Code within controlled CI/CD and version-control workflows. \nExperience with Git, automated testing, peer review, code scanning, and configuration-drift detection. \nExperience supporting large-scale platform migrations, data-center modernization, or hosting transitions. \nITIL v4 Foundation certification. \nRelevant cloud, security, storage, or network certification. \nSkills and Competencies\nEnterprise virtualization and SDDC engineering. \nVMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, and SRM. \nInfrastructure as Code and configuration automation. \nHigh availability, disaster recovery, and COOP support. \nPlatform capacity, performance, and lifecycle management. \nSecure platform configuration and compliance. \nComplex infrastructure troubleshooting and root-cause analysis. \nHybrid-hosting and migration planning. \nArchitecture and technical-documentation development. \nCross-functional engineering coordination. \nControlled change and release implementation. \nStrong attention to detail and configuration discipline. \nAbility to distinguish platform responsibilities from guest operating-system and workload ownership. \nOur Equal Employment Opportunity Policy\nEEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. 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