OverviewJob Title: Virtualization Administrator
Location: Arnold AFB, TN
Job Family Code: T- Software & Systems Development
Function/Branch: Engineering / Infrastructure
Directorate: Engineering Tech & Support
Position Type: Regular, Full-Time
Pay Type: Exempt
Grade: L08 (TA0813); L09 (TA0913)
Salary Range: L08: $95,000 - $131,200; L09: $108,000 -$148,000
Job Duties:- Virtualization and VDI Administration: Administer, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize VMware virtual infrastructure and the Omnissa virtual desktop infrastructure environment, including vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, clusters, virtual machines, desktop pools, templates, user entitlements, and associated management components.
- Platform Sustainment and Lifecycle Management: Perform routine maintenance, patching, upgrades, capacity management, performance tuning, and lifecycle activities for virtualization, VDI, and supporting infrastructure. Support additional virtual desktop or application-delivery technologies, as mission requirements evolve.
- Desktop Image and Application Management: Develop, maintain, test, and deploy golden images for virtual desktop and virtualized workloads. Coordinate operating system updates, application updates, security patches, configuration changes, and release validation.
- Backup, Recovery, and Continuity: Administer and support Veeam Backup & Replication or equivalent approved backup tools for virtual infrastructure and workloads. Perform backup monitoring, restoration, retention management, recovery validation, and disaster-recovery support activities.
- Infrastructure Integration and Troubleshooting: Coordinate with server, storage, network, cybersecurity, and application teams to configure and resolve issues involving virtualization-related storage, networking, authentication, certificates, firewall rules, and guest operating systems. Provide supporting administration for Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, and DHCP as required to sustain virtual infrastructure and VDI services.
- Security and Compliance: Configure and maintain systems in accordance with applicable Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), DoW security policies, approved configuration baselines, and access-control requirements. Support vulnerability remediation, patch compliance, and documentation in coordination with the Information System Security Manager (ISSM) and other stakeholders.
- Automation, Monitoring, and Documentation: Develop and maintain PowerShell, PowerCLI, or other approved automation scripts; monitor infrastructure health, availability, performance, and capacity; and maintain standard operating procedures (SOP), technical documentation, configuration records, recovery procedures, and system diagrams.
- Customer and Operational Support: Provide technical support to AEDC customers, contractors, and end users; collaborate with integrated technical teams to implement service improvements; maintain availability outside normal business hours for planned maintenance or critical infrastructure issues as required; and perform other duties as assigned.
Basic Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in an IT-related field and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
- In lieu of bachelor's degree, 9 years of relevant IT experience may be substituted.
- Due to Air Force Security requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required for employment at AEDC.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense Secret level security clearance and access to the AEDC local area network.
Preferred Qualifications:- Experience administering VMware vSphere environments, including vCenter Server, ESXi, vMotion, High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler, Lifecycle Manager, templates, and distributed virtual switching.
- Experience administering Omnissa Horizon or comparable production virtual desktop infrastructure environments, including desktop pools, golden images, user entitlements, profile management, application delivery, and performance troubleshooting.
- Experience administering Veeam Backup & Replication or comparable enterprise backup and recovery tools, including backup configuration, restores, replication, retention, recovery validation, and troubleshooting.
- Experience supporting or administering Red Hat OpenShift environments, including virtual infrastructure integration, cluster resource considerations, networking, storage, and platform troubleshooting.
- Experience supporting NetApp enterprise storage, networking, Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and monitoring tools in a virtualized environment.
- Experience with STIG implementation, vulnerability remediation, security hardening, configuration compliance, PowerShell/PowerCLI automation, and disaster-recovery planning or testing.
- Relevant VMware, Omnissa, Citrix, Microsoft, Veeam, or infrastructure certifications, such as VMware Certified Professional-Data Center Virtualization or equivalent.
- Experience supporting high-availability, mission-critical, or geographically distributed infrastructure environments.
What We Offer- Competitive salaries
- Continuing education assistance
- Multiple healthcare benefits packages
- 401K with employer matching
- Paid time off (PTO) along with a federally recognized holiday schedule
The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations and refers to the amount BNH is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time jobs will be adjusted based upon the number of hours agreed to work at location Tennessee: Arnold Air Force, TN.
$95,000 - $131,200; L09: $108,000 -$148,000 / year at Arnold Air Force Base, TN.
