Title: VMWARE Administrator
Location: Quantico, VA (3 days onsite, 2 days remote for this one)
Terms: 6-month Contract to Hire
Citizenship: Active Top Secret (prefer TS/SCI)
Top Skills: Any VMWare, Sec+ Certification, Cisco Hyperflex
How a Senior VMware Administrator Will Make An Impact
- Administration of customers’ virtualization requirements
- Daily support, maintenance, and design services for VMware virtualization across four separate enterprise domains
- Daily interaction with network and storage administrators to ensure full operability of virtualization services
- Plans and implements system security patches as well as upgrades as required
- Windows Domain enterprise support as it relates to VMware operations as well as supporting the customer with vulnerability management, outage, and troubleshooting
Education
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
- BS degree; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
- Security+
Required Experience
- 5+ years of in-depth knowledge/experience of VMware virtualization with a minimum level of ESXi 5.5 up to 7.x in both stand-alone and VCenter environments to include:
- VCenter operations
- vMotion
- Host and Datastore Clustering
- Cisco UCS/Hyperflex familiarity is a huge plus
- VCenter HA and DRS
- Guest VM resource utilization and management
Required Technical Skills
- Operations and maintenance of AD and Group Policies
- DNS, DHCP
- Understanding of monitoring best practices
Security Clearance Level
- Top Secret; must be able to obtain TS/SCI
Required Skills And Abilities
- Infrastructure and server theories, principles and concepts; application infrastructure and standards, to include networking fundamentals, Windows, Physical Server architecture, and LAN/WAN/Firewall/VPN network technologies
- Development, documentation, and enforcement of standards, security procedures, and controls for access to ensure integrity of Windows systems, AD, and related systems
- Implementation and maintenance services and communications with AD recovery locations
Preferred Skills
- VMWare Virtual Certified Professional VCP