Senior VMware Administrator

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. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Senior VMware Administrator, you will help ensure today is safe 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

Qualifications:

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

Security Clearance Level:

• Top Secret required to start
• Must be able to obtain TS/SCI

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