# Infrastructure Lead (VMware vSphere)

About Zaden Technologies Zaden Technologies is a defense technology company based in Huntsville, Alabama. We build AI, DevSecOps and digital engineering products and put them to work for DoD customers. You'll support a new Defense Health Agency program. This position is contingent upon contract award, and the start date will align with the program start. You'll lead the infrastructure team that runs a VMware vSphere estate of more than 2,000 virtual machines across two disconnected DoD enclaves in Chantilly, VA. You're the technical lead for the program's virtualization engineers and system administrators, and you report to the program manager. You'll own the plan that consolidates the environment onto fewer, denser hosts in a smaller footprint, without disrupting the test events the program depends on. You'll work alongside platform engineers who build environments as code and a cyber team that keeps every system authorized. What you'll do: Lead a team of virtualization engineers and system administrators: set priorities, assign and review work, and grow the team Own the design and operation of vSphere 8 clusters, vCenter, vSAN and NSX across two enclaves Plan and run the consolid

- **Id**: 4004885
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zaden-technologies-infrastructure-lead-vmware-vsphere>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chantilly, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T01:53:46Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T17:15:34Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3630
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Defense Manufacturing, Defense AI

## Company

- **Id**: 685246
- **Name**: Zaden Technologies
- **Domain**: zadentech.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zadentech>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Rippling

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 355
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 166000
- **Max**: 194000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 194000

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **GitLab CI** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **VMWare** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T06:34:35Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 355
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 194000
- **Is top pay**: no

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