Virtualization/Automation Engineer – Journeyman

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

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🤖 QA Automation Engineer

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DecisionPoint Corporation

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Defense • Consulting • Logistics

DecisionPoint Corporation is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business specializing in IT modernization and digital transformation for government agencies. They provide comprehensive services including cybersecurity, health IT, and intelligent automation solutions, aimed at improving operational efficiency and effectiveness while ensuring secure cloud migration. Their Centers of Excellence approach drives mission success by addressing the most pressing challenges faced by government entities through innovative technology and expert support.

📋 Description

• Configure, administer, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize enterprise hypervisor and Software-Defined Data Center platforms • Support VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, and associated platform-management capabilities • Maintain virtualization clusters supporting production, development, testing, COOP, and disaster-recovery environments • Configure and support high availability, resource scheduling, resource pools, clusters, hosts, datastores, distributed switches, and related platform services • Install, configure, patch, upgrade, and maintain ESXi hosts and vCenter • Monitor platform capacity, availability, performance, utilization, health, and configuration compliance • Configure and troubleshoot vSAN clusters and NSX network-virtualization capabilities • Administer Site Recovery Manager protection groups, mappings, recovery plans, failover, and failback activities • Execute and document recovery-plan tests, COOP exercises, disaster-recovery testing, backup restoration, and continuity events • Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI, APIs, or comparable tools • Create reusable modules, playbooks, scripts, templates, and workflows for provisioning, configuration, validation, patching, compliance, and recovery • Maintain automation code in approved version-control repositories and follow peer-review, testing, approval, release, rollback, and documentation procedures • Support automated configuration-baseline checks and identify configuration drift • Coordinate with system, storage, network, cloud, application, database, cybersecurity, vendor, and Government teams • Provide advanced engineering support, outage response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and technical status updates • Apply security baselines, patches, hardening settings, DISA STIGs, vulnerability directives, and Risk Management Framework controls • Support technology refreshes, modernization, capacity assessments, technical-debt reviews, security-gap assessments, and lifecycle planning • Support migration discovery, readiness assessments, test plans, implementation, rollback, cutover, validation, and post-migration stabilization for centralized DISA-hosting platforms • Develop architecture diagrams, as-built documentation, configuration baselines, standard operating procedures, automation documentation, and recovery procedures • Provide platform metrics, capacity information, accomplishments, risks, issues, and modernization status for program reporting

🎯 Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher • Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience where permitted by the applicable labor category • Minimum of six years of relevant experience in virtualization, systems engineering, data-center infrastructure, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or a related technical discipline • Hands-on experience administering enterprise hypervisor or Software-Defined Data Center platforms • Experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter in an enterprise environment • Experience supporting vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, or comparable software-defined storage, network-virtualization, and disaster-recovery technologies • Experience developing, executing, or maintaining infrastructure-automation solutions • Experience troubleshooting issues across virtualization, compute, storage, network, and automation layers • Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, backup, restoration, capacity management, performance monitoring, and infrastructure lifecycle practices • Ability to create and maintain technical procedures, automation documentation, configuration records, architecture diagrams, and recovery documentation • Ability to support after-hours maintenance, disaster-recovery exercises, and critical incident response when required • Strong written, verbal, analytical, and technical problem-solving skills • Formal Terraform training preferred • Formal Ansible training preferred • VMware Certified Professional certification preferred • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate certification preferred • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation or comparable automation certification preferred • Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation or VMware Aria automation and operations capabilities preferred • Experience with PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, or comparable scripting technologies preferred • Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense virtualization environments preferred • Experience supporting DISA-hosted services or migrations to DISA enterprise-hosting platforms preferred • Experience with DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides, Risk Management Framework controls, vulnerability remediation, and configuration compliance preferred • Experience integrating virtualization platforms with hybrid-cloud, COOP, or disaster-recovery environments preferred • Experience developing Infrastructure as Code within controlled version-control and CI/CD workflows preferred • Experience with Git, automated testing, peer review, code scanning, and configuration-drift detection preferred • Experience supporting data-center modernization, platform migrations, or hosting transitions preferred • ITIL v4 Foundation certification preferred • Relevant cloud, security, storage, or network certification preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement • Occasional on-site support, after-hours maintenance, incident response, and travel may be required • Opportunity to support technology refreshes and modernization activities • Opportunity to support infrastructure and service transitions to centralized DISA-hosting platforms