A.C. Coy

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About the position Tier One Technologies is seeking a Sr. Virtualization Systems Engineer/Architect to support our direct US Government client. This hybrid Contract-to-Hire position will be located in Raleigh, NC. SELECTED CANDIDATES WITHOUT REQUIRED CLEARANCE WILL BE SUBJECT TO A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION TO RECEIVE IT. Responsibilities • Act as a Subject Matter Expert on best practices for server virtualizations solutions and make recommendations. • Responsible for the design, configuration, deployment, integration, and maintenance and support of server virtualization and server infrastructure solutions. • Specialize in building and managing virtual computing platforms. • Play a critical role in data migration, virtual machine lifecycle management, troubleshooting, tuning and performance, and monitoring of the environment. • Provide technical assistance and advice on complex activities. • Formulate and define specifications, develop, modify and maintain complex systems and subsystems, using vendor engineering releases and utilities for overall operational systems. • Apply analytical techniques when gathering information from users, defining work problems, designing technology solutions, and developing procedures to resolve the problems. • Develop complete specifications to enable computer programmers to prepare required programs. • Review task proposal requirements, gather information, analyze data, prepare project synopses, compare alternatives, prepare specifications, resolve processing problems, coordinate work with programmers and engineers, and orient users to new systems. • Work with considerable freedom to make decisions on the techniques and approaches to be used. • Prepare recommendations for system improvement for management and user consideration. • Architect and design server virtualization solutions. • Perform systems administration for Windows Server and UNIX / Linux systems such as RHEL and SLES. • Develop automation through scripting and APIs (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, PowerShell, Python, Bash, Terraform). • Perform certificate lifecycle management for systems and applications. • Evaluate inefficiencies with server resources and make right-sizing recommendations. • Manage and maintain server virtualization platform on premise as well as cloud e.g. VMware, Nutanix, Harvester, OpenShift, Proxmox, Azure, AWS, GCP. • Play a lead role in meetings relating to specific technical projects or tasks. • Respond promptly to incidents in ServiceNow. • Diagnose and repair system problems working closely with vendor support for all servers, software and other hardware directly or with the team members. • Define, monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot system performance of all server virtualization and other related infrastructure systems. Requirements • A degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services is required. If the individual's degree is not in the applicable field, then four additional years of related experience is required. • 13+ years of professional experience in supporting virtualization technologies. • Basic understanding of data center networking (TCP/IP, switching/routing, ports and protocols, firewall concepts, load-balancing). • Strong, demonstrable scripting experience in one or more of the following: PowerShell, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, VBScript, C++, Unix Shell, Python, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, etc. • Basic understanding of storage protocols (e.g. NFS, SMB, S3, FC, iSCSI, NVMe). • Good knowledge of Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Group Policy. • Knowledge of MS Windows Server operating systems including Server 2016, 2019, and 2022 as well as RHEL and SLES operating systems. • Knowledge of MS database server SQL Server 2008 R2 and later. • Knowledge of container technologies including but not limited to Docker, Kubernetes, and Rancher. • Knowledge of IaaS in cloud using MS Azure, AWS, or GCP. • Experience with hardening and improving the security of Windows operating systems and hardware platforms, local area networks, wide area networks, messaging, and client-server applications. • Ability to develop and maintain IT documentation. • Expertise working with vendors to resolve problems and implement solutions independently. • Excellent communication skills. • Must be eligible to obtain a Position of Public Trust clearance. • All candidates must be a US Citizen or have permanent residence status (Green Card). • Candidate must have lived in the United States for the past 5 years. • Cannot have more than 6 months travel outside the United States within the last 5 years. Military Service excluded.