Sr VMWare Engineer/ Linux Sys Admin
Company: Guidehouse
Location: Glen Echo
Posted on: January 27, 2023
Job Description:
Job Family:Systems Engineering (Digital)Travel
Required:NoneClearance Required:Ability to Obtain NACIWhat You Will
Do:
- Responsible for designing, building, testing, implementing,
maintaining and optimizing the virtual infrastructure in accordance
with security policies and guidelines. -
- Support product management, performance and capacity
management, patching and version management, hardware support and
Level 3 operations support.
- Daily administration of VMware infrastructure (vSphere 6.5+)
including proactive performance tuning and optimization of guests
in a virtual environment.
- Work with Application developers and seasoned application
administrators to establish virtual machine memory, CPU, and
storage requirements that adhere to basic principles of topology,
such as NUMA boundaries
- Development of ESXi host profiles to maintain uniformity across
clusters in the environment. -
- Establishment of performance analytics to determine the best
methods for optimizing the environment. -
- Building server 'Gold' images to conform to hardening, security
compliance, and virtualization best practices. -
- Perform enterprise level system upgrades of hypervisors,
operating systems, applications, and other tools, including
evaluation and installation of new products, and MS and other
application patches.
- Develop mid-level engineers to perform more advanced system
administration and best practices.
- Manage Service Level Agreements, documentation, and
policy/procedure compliance for IT systems related to virtualized,
and commercial cloud environments.
- Create and manage scripts to perform system tasks.
- Provide recommendations to senior management for areas of
opportunities to reduce total cost of ownership of the virtualized
environments. -
- Resolve escalated issues from the IT Service Desk and Tier III
administrators
- Work with hardware vendors to fix and/or repair defective
support hardware.
- Familiarity and practical application of advanced principles of
ITIL/ITSM.
- Manage, track, report, process and assign support tickets or
change requests daily.
- Knowledge of government security policies and general
vulnerabilities management.
- Attend change, problem management, AAR and other review boards
as required.
- Ability to present to executive management incident debriefs
and root cause analysis reports.
- Must be familiar with source and artifact control,
configuration and knowledge management.
- Be a customer advocate by consistently meeting, exceeding
expectations and incorporating customer service into all aspects of
work.
- Able to perform rotational on-call support in a 24x7x365
operational environment.
- Able to perform rotational on-site (College Park, MD)
hands-on/smart hands support.
- Ability to manage multiple competing priorities
effectively.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.What You Will
Need:
- Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent years of
experience. In lieu of degree, 4 years of demonstrated experience
in a related field
- 8-10 full-time years of progressive operations experience into
an enterprise setting, including demonstrated O&M experience
(advanced troubleshooting, patching, hardening, etc.) supporting
VMware.
- 8-10 full-time years of VMware 5.x/6.x experience, engineering,
upgrading, supporting & troubleshooting required.
- 5 full-time years experience supporting VMware over NFS
required.
- 5+ years of progressive linux expertise leading to RHEL7 & 8
required.
- High proficiency (5+ years) of script writing in Perl, Python
and various shells.What Would Be Nice To Have:
- Current or previous government contract experience
- VMware VCDX Certified (Data Center)
- VMware VCAP Certified (Data Center)
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
- Dell Infrastructure expertise
- Ansible Platform experience
- NetApp experience
- ServiceNow experienceWhat We Offer:Guidehouse offers a
comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive
compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our
commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.Benefits
include:
- Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
- Parental Leave
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
- Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
- Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible
Spending Accounts
- Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications &
Learning Opportunities
- Employee Referral Program
- Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
- Care.com annual membership
- Employee Assistance Program
- Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital
Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft
protection, etc.)
- Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive
bonusAbout GuidehouseGuidehouse is an Equal Employment Opportunity
/ Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will
receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color,
national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, military status,
protected veteran status, religion, creed, physical or mental
disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, sexual
orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, genetic
information, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or
regulation.Guidehouse will consider for employment qualified
applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the
requirements of applicable law or ordinance including the Fair
Chance Ordinance of Los Angeles and San Francisco.If you have
visited our website for information about employment opportunities,
or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation,
please contact Guidehouse Recruiting at 1-571-633-1711 or via email
at . All information you provide will be kept confidential and will
be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable
accommodation.Guidehouse does not accept unsolicited resumes
through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited
resumes will be considered the property of Guidehouse and
Guidehouse will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.
Keywords: Guidehouse, Washington DC , Sr VMWare Engineer/ Linux Sys Admin, IT / Software / Systems , Glen Echo, DC
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