Must be able to attain Tier3 / Public trust.

Job Description: Virtualization Infrastructure Administrator

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITES:

• Backup/Disaster Recovery Management for VMware using VMware Site Recovery Manager and other BU/DR Products

• Install, manage and configure VCenter on windows and SQL

• Setup, Install and configure ESX servers

• Setup and configure HP C7000 blade servers and Chassis ( to include iLO and server profiles, Onboard Administration configurations for Active and Standby OA’s, Virtual Connect Configurations, Firmware Upgrades etc.)

• Install Linux/Windows VM guests and P2V migrations

• Day to Day system administration of VMware, Windows systems

• Meet DoD Security Compliance Objectives using ACAS, STIGS, SRR, hardening guides or other provided tools for hardware and software

Secondary duties

• Windows Server 2008R2 administration

• Security Compliance Scanning using ACAS

• Netapp/EVA SAN administration

• SAN Fiber Fabric Administration

Desired Skills & Experience

SKILL REQUIREMENTS / EXPERIENCE:

• Must have 5 years of VMware administration in the areas of design, implementation, capacity planning, maintenance

• Must have 8 or more years administering heterogeneous production environments on Solaris, AIX, Linux, or Windows running on various hardware

• Expert knowledge in Unix/Linux or Windows; experienced in architecting, designing and deploying virtualized infrastructure in VMware environment.

• Working experience with vSphere systems administration and support including VMotion, HA, DRS, VDS, Affinity rules, VCenter, storage migrations, and P2V migrations

• Experience with vSphere problem determination, capacity planning and root cause analysis.

• Working experience with vSphere Thin Provisioning, Resource Pools, Host Profiles, and EMC plug-ins

• Working experience with vSphere Distributed Switch, power shell and vShield zones

• Working experience with configuring and deploying VMware ESX on HP Proliant servers and HP Blade

Preferred Certifications:

• VMware Certified Professional 5 or newer (VCP) (Required)

• Sec+ or other DoD required security certification (required)

Good understanding of related storage technologies e.g. SAN, NAS using block storage, NFS and iSCSI.

• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery solutions and tools including clustering, load balancing, VMware Site Recovery manager and NetApp replication technologies, etc

• Ability to operate across multiple projects concurrently and assume the responsibility for the appropriate technical and architectural implementation of projects

• Self-motivated who takes initiative and works well in a team environment with the ability to meet deadlines.

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.

Please send your resumes to me at mjones@vip-staffing.com