Job Description
VMWare Administrator 100% on-site Quantico Hours: 0800-1730 TS/SCI eligibility required Sec+ CE (or equivalent) required Nationwide IT Services, NIS, seeks a VMWare Administrator supporting our DCSA customer at Quantico.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Perform the planning and the coordination of installation, testing, operation, troubleshooting, maintenance, and administration of complex virtualized environments consisting of Microsoft Windows Server and RHEL Server Operating Systems
- Plan and schedule the installation of new or modified hardware and operating systems and applications software
- Manage systems resources, including performance, capacity, availability, serviceability, and recoverability, implementing security procedures and tools
- Develop and document systems administration standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Resolve hardware/software interface and interoperability problems within the virtualized environment
- Ensure systems availability, functionality, integrity, and efficiency
- Maintain systems configuration
- Manage the installation and integration of systems fixes, updates, and enhancements; and/or ensure the rigorous application of information security/information assurance policies, principles, and practices in the delivery of systems administration services
- Implement DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) across an ESXi and VDI environment
- Conduct vulnerability management, patching, and remediation
- Provide system administration services for all virtualized servers, virtual storage area networks (vSANs), and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
- Manage virtual environment; perform log analysis, error detection, and fault correction; perform startup and shutdown of the systems as required
- Build, configure, patch, and upgrade virtualized servers, operating systems, and server applications as required and/or mandated by IAVA/IAVB following the STIG and industry best practices
- Develop and implement plans as a continuous process for the integration of new virtualized server and client software and provide technical advice on new requirements
- Perform system-level design and configuration of products to support virtualized environments, including determination of hardware, operating system, platform specifications, and various systems engineering tasks and activities that are broad in scope
- Develop SOPs and provide updates quarterly or as tasked
Required Skills & Experience: - Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, or Computer Science and 9+ years of relevant experience or an equivalent combination of education and years of experience.
- Must have Security+ CE or equivalent IAT-II Certification
- Active TS with SCI eligibility
- Experience and mastery of vSAN, vCenter, and vSphere 8.x, including advanced features such as vMotion, High Availability, REST APIs, and Integrated Containers.
- Experience and knowledge of UNIX-based operating systems and Windows Server Operating Systems, including Active Directory, Group Policy Objects, DHCP, and DNS.
Required Technical/Business Tools Experience: - Mastered knowledge of vSAN, vCenter, and vSphere 8.x, including advanced features such as vMotion, High Availability, REST APIs, and Integrated Containers
Preferred Technical/Business Tools Experience: - Windows Server, Red Hat, and SQL
About Nationwide IT Services NIS is an IT and Management consulting company and is a CVE-verified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business. Our mission is to deliver value-added services to our customers, leveraging technology, people, and industry best practices to implement innovative solutions through our trusted employees and team members.
Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, 401(k) plan with employer match, paid holidays, PTO (sick/vacation), commuter benefits, employee assistance program (EAP), and educational reimbursement along with Pet Insurance.
Nationwide IT Services, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics, disability, or protected veteran status.
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