Senior Virtualization & Storage Architect

MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates Inc.; Richmond; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care plans

Dental and vision benefits

Disability income protection

Life insurance

Group retirement savings plans

Employee assistance program

Job summary

MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates Inc. is seeking a Senior Virtualization and Storage Administrator to own and support enterprise virtualization and storage platforms across the organization.

You will design, operate, secure, monitor, and optimize SAN, NAS, Hyper‑V, Proxmox, and related infrastructure services to ensure high availability and disaster recovery. The role requires deep hands‑on capability, automation skills, and collaboration with Backup, Network, Security, Linux, Windows, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive systems administration or infrastructure engineering experience, with significant hands‑on focus on virtualization and enterprise storage.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of relevant experience and certifications.
• Strong hands‑on experience administering at least two of VMware vSphere/ESXi, Microsoft Hyper‑V, Proxmox VE.
• Strong hands‑on experience with enterprise storage platforms such as Dell EMC PowerStore, Unity XT, NetApp, or equivalent with knowledge of block and file storage protocols such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB.
• Experience supporting enterprise environments consisting of hundreds of virtual machines, multiple virtualization clusters, and critical production workloads across multiple data centers.
• Experience supporting high availability virtualization clusters and shared storage environments.
• Scripting or automation experience using PowerShell plus at least one of Bash, Python, Ansible, PowerCLI, or REST APIs.
• Understanding of infrastructure security practices including patching, hardening, privileged access, least privilege, and audit readiness.
• Experience administering both Windows Server and Linux systems in physical and virtual environments.
• Extensive experience in designing High Availability systems across the enterprise to meet the disaster recovery and business continuity objectives.
• Ability to create and maintain operational documentation, diagrams, standards, and runbooks.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with infrastructure, security, application, and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, administer, monitor, and optimize enterprise virtualization platforms including Microsoft Hyper‑V, Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere/ESXi and related management tooling.
• Support virtualization platform lifecycle activities including upgrades, patching, cluster configuration, host firmware coordination, compatibility validation, and retirement of legacy platforms.
• Plan and execute workload migrations between virtualization platforms, including VMware to Hyper‑V or Proxmox, with appropriate rollback, testing, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
• Design, implement, and administer enterprise storage platforms including SAN, NAS, DAS, block, file, and cloud‑integrated storage.
• Manage storage presentation and connectivity including LUN provisioning, zoning coordination, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NFS, SMB, MPIO/multipathing, snapshots, replication, deduplication, and capacity allocation.
• Monitor and tune virtualization and storage performance, including host CPU/memory contention, VM latency, datastore latency, IOPS, throughput, storage queue depth, network paths, and capacity trends.
• Work closely with Backup, Network, Security, Windows, Linux, and application teams to maintain resilient infrastructure aligned to business RTO and RPO requirements.
• Develop, maintain, and test disaster recovery and business continuity runbooks for virtual workloads and storage services.
• Ensure high availability configurations are documented, tested, and aligned with business resiliency objectives.
• Perform regular system updates, patches, and security configurations.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation of the virtualization and storage infrastructure.
• Support security and compliance requirements through hardening, access control, privileged account management, patch compliance, vulnerability remediation, and audit evidence.
• Develop and implement automation scripts to improve system efficiency and reduce manual tasks.
• Conduct capacity planning and prepare recommendations for hardware refresh, platform consolidation, storage growth, lifecycle risk, and cost optimization.
• Participate in change management, project planning, vendor coordination, and after‑hours support as required.
• Serve as the senior escalation point and technical lead for virtualization and storage‑related incidents and projects.
• Mentor junior administrators and provide technical guidance for complex virtualization and storage issues.
• Other duties as required

Skills

VMware vSphere/ESXi

Hyper‑V

Proxmox VE

Storage management

Scripting/Automation

Linux admin

Windows admin

Troubleshooting

Backup/DR

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Dell EMC PowerStore

Dell EMC Unity XT

NetApp

iSCSI

Fibre Channel

NFS

SMB

Job description

MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates Inc. is seeking a Senior Virtualization and Storage Administrator to own and support enterprise virtualization and storage platforms across the organization.

You will design, operate, secure, monitor, and optimize SAN, NAS, Hyper‑V, Proxmox, and related infrastructure services to ensure high availability and disaster recovery. The role requires deep hands‑on capability, automation skills, and collaboration with Backup, Network, Security, Linux, Windows, and