Senior Virtualization & Storage Engineer (ITMS-SE3-03)

Position Title:

Senior Virtualization & Storage Engineer

Location:

San Diego, CA (100% Onsite)

Clearance Requirements:

Active Secret Clearance

Position Status:

 C2H

Pay Rate:

Competitive; Based on Experience

Position Description:

Client is seeking a Senior Virtualization & Storage Engineer to support an End client customer in San Diego, CA. This is a hands-on senior engineering role within a classified environment, focused on designing, optimizing, and sustaining enterprise virtualization and storage platforms that support mission-critical systems.

This position requires deep expertise in VMware ESXi environments and Dell enterprise storage systems, along with experience operating within DoD cybersecurity frameworks.

Key Responsibilities:

Virtualization Engineering

- Engineer, administer, and optimize VMware vSphere / ESXi environments

- Manage clusters, distributed switches, HA configurations, and resource pools

- Perform host lifecycle management, upgrades, and patching

- Troubleshoot performance across compute, memory, storage, and network layers

- Design resilient virtualization architectures for classified workloads

- Support VM provisioning automation and DevSecOps integration

Storage Engineering

- Engineer and administer Dell enterprise storage platforms (PowerStore, Unity, PowerMax, or equivalent)

- Configure and manage SAN/NAS environments

- Implement LUN provisioning, storage tiering, replication, and snapshots

- Conduct storage performance optimization and capacity planning

- Ensure backup integrity and disaster recovery readiness

- Troubleshoot connectivity issues (iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NFS, etc.)

Mission & DevSecOps Integration

- Support containerized and VM-based workloads

- Integrate infrastructure into secure CI/CD pipelines

- Ensure compliance with DISA STIGs, RMF controls, and DoD cybersecurity standards

- Collaborate with network, cloud, Windows, and security teams

- Contribute to automation efforts using PowerShell, PowerCLI, Python, or similar

- Maintain architecture documentation and operational runbooks

Required Skills/Education:

- 10+ years of relevant enterprise infrastructure experience

- Strong expertise in VMware vSphere / ESXi and vCenter administration

- Experience with Dell enterprise storage platforms (PowerStore, Unity, PowerMax)

- Experience supporting DoD or classified environments

- Working knowledge of RMF and DISA STIG compliance

- Strong troubleshooting skills across virtualization, storage, and networking layers

- Active IAT II certification (one of the following required):

- Security+ - CySA+

- SSCP

- GSEC

- GICSP

- CCNA-Security

Preferred Qualifications:

- VMware certifications (VCP, VCAP)

- Dell storage certifications

- Experience with automation or Infrastructure as Code

- Exposure to Kubernetes or OpenShift hosted on VMware

- Experience supporting high-availability, mission-critical systems

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