Virtual Platform Administrator

ESM

• $88K — $105K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience managing virtualized server environments and hosted applications.
  • 2+ years managing large-scale, multi-disciplinary projects involving virtual servers.
  • Knowledge of virtualization technologies and cloud environments.
  • Ability to implement, upgrade, and maintain virtualized systems across various environments.
  • Experience with capacity planning, performance tuning, and disaster recovery practices.
  • DOD 8570 baseline certification - IAT Level II.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and maintain virtualized infrastructure across various environments.
  • Implement, upgrade, patch, and troubleshoot hosts and virtual machines.
  • Monitor system health, performance, and availability.
  • Automate administrative tasks to optimize virtualized environments.
  • Maintain accurate system configurations and documentation.
  • Support capacity planning and performance tuning.
  • Contribute to disaster recovery and fault-tolerance planning.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and training.
  • Collaborative work environment with a focus on innovation.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and tools.
  • Supportive team culture that values communication and creativity.
Full Job Description
Job Description and Responsibilities

Manages and maintains virtualized infrastructure across on-premises data centers and private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. Implements, upgrades, patches, and troubleshoots hosts, hypervisors, virtual machines, applications, and supporting infrastructure across development, test, pre-production, and production environments. Monitors system health, performance, capacity, and availability; automates administrative tasks and optimizes virtualized environments to ensure stability, security, and performance. Maintains accurate system configurations and documentation, supports capacity planning and performance tuning, and contributes to virtualization disaster recovery and fault-tolerance planning.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA)
  • Knowledge of virtualization technologies, hypervisors, virtual machines, and supporting infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments.
  • Ability to implement, upgrade, patch, and maintain virtualized systems across development, test, and production environments.
  • Ability to monitor and troubleshoot virtualization infrastructure to maintain system availability, stability, security, and performance.
  • Knowledge of cloud computing and private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.
  • Ability to perform capacity planning, performance analysis, tuning, and optimization of virtualized systems.
  • Knowledge of virtualization disaster recovery, fault tolerance, configuration management, and system documentation practices.


Desired KSA
  • Be a positive, self-motivated, and proactive person with the ability to adapt to change and tolerate stressful situations
  • Candidate must communicate effectively with team members, team lead, management, and government customers
  • Must have the ability and desire to research and develop creative solutions to unique problems with minimal supervision


Minimum Training, Education, and Certifications
  • Seven (7) years of progressive experience in the management and maintenance of virtualized server environments and hosted applications. At least two years of qualifying experience must include managing successful large scale, multi-disciplinary (network, virtualization, systems administration) projects involving virtual servers
  • DOD 8570 baseline certification - IAT Level II


Minimum Clearance
  • Top Secret

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