VMWare Subject Matter Expert (SME)

POSITION: VMWare Subject Matter Expert

LOCATION: Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

SCOPE: Serves as a Systems Administrator and VMWare Subject Matter Expert on a major IT support contract for the Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) at the Aberdeen Test Center (ATC).

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Engineering, configuration, and troubleshooting the VMWare infrastructure at the Aberdeen Test Center
• Patching and maintaining both bare metal and virtualized systems in an enterprise environment.
• Monitoring and evaluating systems performance and availability
• Leading projects in support of upgrades and major systems deployment
• Tier II/III for issues related to VMWare.
• Troubleshooting issues including root cause analysis, developing and validating solutions, and supporting corrective actions
• Facilitate and guide transition to a pure cloud or hybrid virtualization infrastructure.
• Ongoing evaluation of system performance to help shape fine tuning and recommendations for enhancements
• Responsible for overall virtualization architecture and engineering at ATC.
• Customer support and communications.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Associate’s Degree and 11 years’ experience; or Bachelor’s Degree and 9 years’ experience; or combination of 13 years which may include education/specialized training/certifications and/or experience.
• Experience in VMWare systems administration including troubleshooting and monitoring
• Experience in resolving complex issues associated with configuration management. resource sharing and basic networking troubleshooting and problem identification.
• Experience in resolving security issues, identity management, records retention, and adhering to destruction policies
• Experience using and writing operating system commands and scripts, and scripting languages, including one or more of Bash, Powershell, Python, Ruby, and/or Perl.
• Experience with performance tuning, capacity planning and bottleneck resolution, administration of Microsoft Servers, building and maintaining high-availability, clustered and scalable systems, advanced web technologies such as ASP.NET, pipeline, load balancing, etc.; managing production environments using automated install, automated build and deployment, automated configuration management, enterprise monitoring systems, server virtualization, load balancing, web servers, and application servers
• Experience managing or working with Windows Server and Linux Operating systems and associated configuration tools is desirable.
• Experience and/or working knowledge of Kubernetes is highly desirable.
• Relevant education or certification must be in an IT discipline related to the assigned program area (e.g Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer or Software Engineering, Management Information Systems, Computer Forensics/Security, etc.).
• Must possess current Security+ (or equivalent DOD Directive 8570.1 IAT II) and at least 1 current VMWare certificate preferably comparable to the VMWare Certified Professional (VCP). Position requires a Top Secret security clearance.

SECURITY CLEARANCE: DoD Secret Clearance