Senior Systems Administrator - VMware SME

Description

Leading with our people, Digital Consultants mission is to deliver the highest level of professional solutions while being a trusted partner and advisor to our customers. With a culture of practicality, opportunity, and creativity we remain dedicated to being honest, trustworthy, respectful, and ethical in everything we do. We are a certified SBA 8(a) small-disadvantaged business that supports multiple IT customers within the Federal, civilian, and private sectors. Digital Consultants also offers our employees growth opportunities, competitive wages, and a full benefits package. Our founding principles, Fairness and Common Sense make working here more than a job, it is the Digital family.

Digital Consultants seeks a skilled Senior Systems Administrator - VMware SME which will be part of the IT Technology Development division within the NCIS ITD organization and performs the following functions: 

• Subject Matter Expert for 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

In addition, you should have:

• Ability/history working in fast-paced environment with a career track record of engineering, developing, deploying, and maintaining business critical systems -- including hands-on solution development and implementation experience
• Ability to translate technical issues into understandable business language for end users
• Self-motivated, with keen attention to detail and excellent judgment skills
• Ability to establish new standards for quality, performance or productivity
• Ability to prioritize and drive to results with a high emphasis on quality
• Leadership, communication (both written and oral), organizational and interpersonal skills
• Training/mentoring opportunities with junior administrators 

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field; additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• 7+ 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 a huge plus
  • VCenter HA and DRS
  • Guest VM resource utilization and management
• Expert knowledge and experience in the following:
  • Operations and maintenance of AD and Group Policies
  • DNS, DHCP, WINS, DFS, SQL
  • Understanding of monitoring best practices
• Extensive experience with:
  • 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
• DoD 8570 - IAT Level III (CISA, GCIH, GCED, CISSP  [or Associate], or CASP CE) and OS cert (e.g., MCSE or equivalent)
• VMWare Virtual Certified Professional VCP
• Top Secret (TS) clearance is required to start, must be eligible to obtain SCI-level adjudication

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