Virtual Platform Administrator with Security Clearance

Manages and maintains virtualized infrastructure for on-premises data centers, DoD and commercial cloud-based offerings for private, public, and hybrid clouds. Performs host, hypervisor and virtual application software implementations and upgrades for on-premises hypervisors and supporting hardware, software, and applications. Performs corresponding cloud-based infrastructure support for virtual machines, virtual appliances, software, programs, applications, and all applicable virtualized infrastructure components.

Ensures high availability, security and integrity of hosts and virtual management applications and resources. Monitors hypervisor, infrastructure, and virtualization applications, including setting alerts to maintain the stability of the environment and application, monitoring error logs, and automating administration tasks wherever possible. Installs host and virtualization infrastructure application patches and releases on development, test, pre-production, and production systems. Serves as key person in troubleshooting system problems on hosts, hypervisors, and virtual infrastructure.

Creates and maintains accurate system documentation for assigned systems. Maintains current descriptions and documentation of virtualized infrastructure application and system configurations, including tracking and documenting any changes to environments. Assists in capacity planning, performance monitoring and tuning on assigned virtualized systems. Participates in virtualization disaster recovery planning, including assisting with fault tolerance and disaster recovery plans. Analyzes performance trends to optimize virtualized systems and application performance.

Required Qualifications

• Experience: Seven (7) years of progressive experience in the management and maintenance of virtualized server environments and hosted applications. At least two years of qualifying experience must include managing successful large scale, multi-disciplinary (network, virtualization, systems administration) projects involving virtual servers • Investigative Requirement: Must possess a High Risk, Critical Sensitive with a Tier 5/SSBI investigation • Clearance: SECRET • 8570/8140: DoD Approved 8570 Baseline Certification: Category IAT Level II • Computing Environment Certification - candidate must possess one of the following certifications: VMware VCP-DCV 2020 or newer, VCAP 2020 or newer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect-Professional, AWS Certified Security-Specialty, Google Associate Cloud Engineer, Google Professional Cloud Architect, Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate, Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Certified Multicloud Architect Associate, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024

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