Virtualization Administrator II

Years of Experience: 3 - 5 years of experience

Education Requirements:Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Program Description: The contractor shall provide IT Infrastructure support services, which includes Tier 1 Help Desk, Tier 2 End User Support, Tier 3 Server, Platform, and Network Infrastructure Support and Engineering. Services shall include, but are not limited to, technical assistance for hardware, software, and network issues; incident and problem resolution; service request management; infrastructure monitoring and support; hardware and software lifecycle support; and management of escalation across all tiers.

Position Description: Manage and maintain the virtualized IT infrastructure to ensure its stability, performance, and security. Administer on-prem and cloud hosted environments, resolving virtualization-related issues, and supporting NCUA IT initiatives. Oversight of on-prem hardware infrastructure (e.g., servers and storage), the on-prem hypervisor environment (e.g., VMWare, vSphere), and CSP infrastructure hosted in Microsoft Azure. Contributes to the automation oof infrastructure deployment and the integration of IaC into CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities: Maintaining and optimizing virtualized IT infrastructure, including VMware, Hyper-V, and cloud platforms. Proactive monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, implementing patching and updates, and ensuring security and business continuity through robust backup and disaster recovery plans.

Requirements

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• 3-5 yrs experience in virtualization administration, with a focus on VMware, Hyper-V, or similar technologies.
• Demonstrated experience in managing and troubling shooting VMware vSphere environments.
• Supporting virtualization infrastructure in Microsoft Azure.
• Automating IT administration and server provisioning using tools such as: Azure, Azure DevOps, Azure Automation, Azure CLI, PowerShell and VMWare PowerCLI, Terraforms or similar IaC tools.
• Integrating infrastructure management tools with APIs to enable deployment of Infrastructure as Code integrated into CI/CD deployment pipelines.

Preferred Skills

• VMware Certified Professional (VCP) and Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate preferred.

 Soft Skills:

•  Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work. Follows tasks to their logical conclusion and makes sure that everything has been done to the right standard. Good attention to detail.

• Team Work: Able to enthuse and maintain project interest. Comfortable working both individually and as part of a team. Prepared to challenge ideas within a group in a constructive way.

• Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently to team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context. Excellent active listening skills.

• Quantitative Management: Ability to determine process measures and track to determine process effectiveness and efficiency.

• Problem Solving:. Ability to analyze problems and determine root cause, generating alternatives, evaluating and selecting alternatives and implementing solutions.

• Results oriented: Able to drive things forward regardless of personal interest in the task.

Benefits

SES provides a competitive salary and the following benefits:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• AD&D
• STD
• LTD
• Company paid Life Insurance
• 401k with employer contribution
• Paid Time Off
• Pet Insurance