Job Requirements
Vienna, VA
Clearance Unspecified Polygraph not specified
Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
$120,000 - $150,000
Job Description
DCI Job Requirement for:
VMWare Operations Specialist
Location: Vienna, VA
Job Description:
• Serve as a VMware Operations Specialist
• Responsible for the ongoing performance and security of VMware environments
◦ After implementation and handover to operations
• Administer and support VMware environments, including:
◦ vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, clusters, datastores, VMs, templates, etc.
• Provide troubleshooting for a variety of incidents, including involving:
◦ Availability, performance, capacity, connectivity, host failures, VM issues, etc.
• Perform root-cause analysis
◦ Contribute to problem-management activities, corrective actions, prevention plans
• Plan and execute approved changes, including:
◦ Host maintenance, patching, upgrades, configuration updates, and migrations
• Monitor platform health, capacity, performance, alarms, and operational trends
◦ Identify risks before they affect business services
• Support DRS, vMotion, storage virtualization, disaster-recovery
• Coordinate with storage and network teams to investigate:
◦ Latency, multipathing, VLAN, routing, MTU, and connectivity issues
• Maintain operational documentation, procedures, architecture records, etc.
• Validate backup, restore, replication, and recovery processes
• Support activities for the virtualization platform, including:
◦ Vulnerability remediation, security hardening, access reviews, and audits
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident retrospectives
• Mentor junior administrators
Qualifications:
• 5+ years of hands-on virtualization experience in enterprise environments
◦ Including supporting VMware environments in a production operations role
• Strong, hands-on experience with the following:
◦ VMware vSphere, vCenter Server, vMotion, ESXi
◦ Clusters, HA, DRS
◦ Virtual networking, and virtual storage
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure incidents
◦ Across compute, storage, networking, operating systems, and applications
• Experience with change management, incident management, and problem management
• Working knowledge of scripting or automation, such as:
◦ Power CLI, PowerShell, Python, or REST APIs
• Experience supporting the following:
◦ Patching, monitoring, and backups
◦ Lifecycle management
◦ Disaster recovery, and security remediation
Preferred Qualifications:
• VMware Certified Professional or higher, such as VCP-DCV or VCAP-DCV
• Experience with
◦ VMware Aria or VMware Cloud environments
◦ vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, HCX
• Familiarity with enterprise storage platforms
◦ SAN/NAS technologies, IP networking, Linux, and Windows Server
• Experience with observability, configuration-management, IaC, or automation platforms
• ITIL certification or equivalent experience with structured IT service management
• Experience operating in regulated, highly available, or global enterprise environments
Required: US Citizenship
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $120,000-$150,000
VMWare Operations Specialist
Location: Vienna, VA
Job Description:
• Serve as a VMware Operations Specialist
• Responsible for the ongoing performance and security of VMware environments
◦ After implementation and handover to operations
• Administer and support VMware environments, including:
◦ vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, clusters, datastores, VMs, templates, etc.
• Provide troubleshooting for a variety of incidents, including involving:
◦ Availability, performance, capacity, connectivity, host failures, VM issues, etc.
• Perform root-cause analysis
◦ Contribute to problem-management activities, corrective actions, prevention plans
• Plan and execute approved changes, including:
◦ Host maintenance, patching, upgrades, configuration updates, and migrations
• Monitor platform health, capacity, performance, alarms, and operational trends
◦ Identify risks before they affect business services
• Support DRS, vMotion, storage virtualization, disaster-recovery
• Coordinate with storage and network teams to investigate:
◦ Latency, multipathing, VLAN, routing, MTU, and connectivity issues
• Maintain operational documentation, procedures, architecture records, etc.
• Validate backup, restore, replication, and recovery processes
• Support activities for the virtualization platform, including:
◦ Vulnerability remediation, security hardening, access reviews, and audits
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident retrospectives
• Mentor junior administrators
Qualifications:
• 5+ years of hands-on virtualization experience in enterprise environments
◦ Including supporting VMware environments in a production operations role
• Strong, hands-on experience with the following:
◦ VMware vSphere, vCenter Server, vMotion, ESXi
◦ Clusters, HA, DRS
◦ Virtual networking, and virtual storage
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure incidents
◦ Across compute, storage, networking, operating systems, and applications
• Experience with change management, incident management, and problem management
• Working knowledge of scripting or automation, such as:
◦ Power CLI, PowerShell, Python, or REST APIs
• Experience supporting the following:
◦ Patching, monitoring, and backups
◦ Lifecycle management
◦ Disaster recovery, and security remediation
Preferred Qualifications:
• VMware Certified Professional or higher, such as VCP-DCV or VCAP-DCV
• Experience with
◦ VMware Aria or VMware Cloud environments
◦ vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, HCX
• Familiarity with enterprise storage platforms
◦ SAN/NAS technologies, IP networking, Linux, and Windows Server
• Experience with observability, configuration-management, IaC, or automation platforms
• ITIL certification or equivalent experience with structured IT service management
• Experience operating in regulated, highly available, or global enterprise environments
Required: US Citizenship
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $120,000-$150,000
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