Location: Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado Springs, CO
Clearance Required: Active DoD Secret Security Clearance or higher
Travel Required: Up to 10% of the time. Occasional local travel may be required to support off-site customers and projects.
We are seeking a Network Virtualization Engineer/Administrator to support the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions (IRES) contract.
What You'll Be DoingThe successful candidate will:
- Have a strong understanding of troubleshooting and configuration of VMware to include protocols and switching, best-practice configurations, connectivity, and networking concepts.
- Expect to work on complex assignments and perform a wide range of VMware system administration activities with little to no direct supervision.
- Provide root-cause analysis for recurring or critical problems.
- Work closely with a team of system administrators, network engineers, and cybersecurity administrators to maintain a high-quality test environment for the Government customer.
- Perform vulnerability remediation and mitigations to reduce cybersecurity risks and ensure DoD compliance.
- Conduct daily system monitoring, system backup and restoral, and application upgrades to ensure optimal and continuous system operations.
- Document necessary system changes and actions in appropriate systems of record to ensure historical data is captured per customer and mission requirements.
- Advise Government customer on system status, optimization and improvement efforts in accordance with program objectives and design baselines as needed.
- Assist system administration team with the deployment of new virtual machines.
- Perform administration of virtualization environments to include troubleshooting, break/fix activities, the patching and remediation of servers, and system audit log reviews as needed.
- Have good written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated experience briefing customers and management.
Core duty hours are [redacted] hours with flexibility to arrive earlier/later Monday-Friday. Occasional off shift, extended or weekend support may be required.
What You BringBasic Requirements:- Must have 10, or more, years of general (full-time) work experience
- May be reduced with completion of advanced education
- Must have 5, or more, years of directly related experience (can be a mix of Network and Virtualization)
- Must have 1, or more, years of experience working in a management or leadership role
- Must have experience in Internet Protocols (e.g. DNS, HTTP, SMTP, SSL); Firewall configuration and troubleshooting; Multiple network types of telecommunications infrastructures.
- Must be an effective communicator with excellent writing and presentation skills using Microsoft PowerPoint and Visio drawing tools.
- Must be able to work collaboratively in a team environment with other highly motivated network engineers as well as independently on large field projects.
- Deep understanding of Foundational VCF Infrastructure including Virtualization (vSphere), Networking (NSX) and Storage (vSAN)
- Must be able to use SDDC Manager to patch, upgrade and provide overall system maintenance.
- Fundamental understanding of how traffic flows through logical routers with the ability to implement these concepts in an NSX environment.
- Must be able to configure distributed stateful firewalling, NAT, load balancing and micro segmentation using NSX.
- Must have experience with the design, installation, upgrading and migration of storage using VMware vSAN.
- Must be able to migrate virtual machines and workloads from deprecated versions of vSphere to VMware Cloud Foundation.
- Must have a current DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification (Security+ CE, CySA, etc.) or higher
Desired Requirements:- Have a demonstrated understanding of the project management lifecycle and related processes.
- Have experience with PIM, L2 and L3 multicast and type I encryption devices
- Have experience with VXLAN, Juniper Apstra, VMWare Aria and RHEL Ansible
- Have experience with HPE server products
- Have experience creating and configuring virtual distributed switches.
- Have a VMware Certified Technical Associate - Data Center Virtualization (VCTA), VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV), VCAP Design, VCAP Deploy or VCDX-DCV Certification
- Have knowledge of Missile Defense, DoD communications systems and MDIOC operations.
- Have a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) or Juniper Networks Certified Associate (JNCIA) certification
- Have experience with Python or Powershell programming and scripting.
- Have a degree in an IT or Engineering related discipline
LaunchTech is built on a single standard: Excellence, Period.
This role places you at the center of network virtualization and infrastructure operations supporting the nation's most advanced missile defense test environment.
We offer:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Mission-driven work with opportunities to grow
- And more
Ready to Join the LaunchTech Crew? 
