NCIS Senior VMware Administrator - Triangle, VA, United States - Softworld Inc

Description

Job Title:
NCIS Senior VMware Administrator

Job Location:
Quanitco VA 22134 Hybrid (3 days onsite)


Onsite Requirements:
Cisco HyperFlex Architecture
VMWare ESXi
VMware vCenter


Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Senior VMware Administrator supporting The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS).

NCIS is an organization of over 2,200 personnel of which 700 serve at HQ and the remaining staff serve at offices worldwide.

NCIS is the Department of Navy (DON) component with primary responsibility for criminal investigation, law enforcement (LE), counterterrorism (CT), counterintelligence (CI), and cyber matters.

NCIS not only has primary responsibility for all criminal investigative, CI, CT, and cyber matters within the DON, but it also has exclusive investigative jurisdiction in non-combat matters involving actual, potential, or suspected criminal, terrorism, sabotage, espionage, and subversive activities.

As a Senior VMware Administrator, you will help ensure today is safer and tomorrow is smarter.

Our work depends on a Senior VMware Administrator joining our team to be a part of the team of men and women that solve some of the world's most complex technical challenges.

How a Senior VMware Administrator will Make an Impact:
Administration 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.

Education:

BS degree:
additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of 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 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

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
**3rd party and subcontract staffing agencies are not eligible for partnership on this position. 3rd party subcontractors need not apply.

This position requires candidates to be eligible to work in the United States, directly for an employer, without sponsorship now or anytime in the future.

This client is a US Federal Government contractor and is legally required to hire US Citizens. US Citizens will only be considered for this role.

Due to the nature of the work, a United States Government Clearance is required to be eligible for the position.

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