Linux VmWare Operations Engineer

Information International Associates, Inc.; Alexandria (VA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 118,000; Full time

Job summary

Information International Associates, Inc. is looking for a Senior Linux VMWare Operations Engineer in Alexandria, VA. The role supports infrastructure services and includes responsibilities such as server administration and mentorship of junior staff.

With a hybrid work arrangement, the qualified candidate will manage over 8000 servers, ensuring optimal operations and compliance with security protocols. Ideal candidates will possess extensive experience in Red Hat Linux and VMware technologies.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS.
• 7+ years with VMware vCenter/ESXi.
• 5+ years supporting Tomcat, Apache, JBoss, Oracle, MySQL.
• Knowledge of Cisco UCS and shell scripting.

Responsibilities

• Provide escalation support from subordinates.
• Mentor and direct junior staff in daily assignments.
• Troubleshoot hardware and software problems.
• Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.

Skills

Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

VMware vCenter and ESXi

Shell Scripting

Tomcat

Apache

JBoss

Oracle

MySQL

Cisco UCS

Education

RHCE Certification

VCP Certification

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

Senior Linux VMWare Operations Engineer

KeyLogic is recruiting for a Senior Linux VMWare Operations Engineer and Deputy Team Lead to support our Federal Client in Alexandria, VA with a hybrid telework arrangement.

The Senior Linux VMWare Operations Engineer will support the client’s Infrastructure Services Division’s (ISD) Operating Systems Operations Section (OSOS) by performing administration and maintenance activities on over 8000 RHEL/HPUX/AIX servers in use. Additionally, the candidate will have a secondary role as the Deputy Team Lead regarding the day-to-day tasks and operations of the team. The selected candidate will work the daytime shift Monday through Friday.

The servers supported are located in both production and lab data centers at the client’s campus in Alexandria, VA. Additional remote support is provided for systems located at the Federal Client’s Alternate Processing Site (APS) in Manassas, VA.

Responsibilities

• Provide escalation support from subordinates and junior resources, including on-call rotation support.
• Ensure proper planning and execution of major projects and O&M activities.
• Mentor and direct junior staff in the course of daily assignments and projects to promote a collaborative learning environment.
• Troubleshoot hardware, Operating System, and software problems with Linux and VMWare servers.
• Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures for server builds, configurations, and scheduled maintenance activities.
• Provide suggestions and best practices for various activities and communicate them to stakeholders at various technical levels.
• Install and configure ESXi hypervisors, vCenter servers, create data centers, clusters, add hosts, and configure their firewall, services and advanced settings.
• Setup and configure virtual switches, port groups, and VLANs in VMWare.
• Configure HA, DRS and setup affinity rules on each VMWare cluster as needed.
• Perform storage expansion, migration, and reclamations on block storage from SAN; familiarity with boot-from-SAN on RHEL is preferred.
• Perform cyber-security remediation and server hardening as needed.
• Write custom shell scripts to poll server inventory for health and configuration data within the environment.
• Work on assigned change requests/incident tickets.
• Investigate and respond to alerts generated by the various monitoring systems in use at USPTO.
• Evaluate and implement potential new tools and technologies.
• Provide vCenter permissions to users as well as create folders, place VMs under folders to provide access rights to certain users/groups to manage their VMs.
• Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot all issues that might arise in the VMware virtual environment.
• Install and troubleshoot physical and virtual server’s performance and connectivity issues.
• Patch and update hypervisor’s baseline using Update Manager.
• Perform Cisco UCS service profile migration.
• Maintain documentation for processes and procedures as required.
• Perform detailed analysis of incidents – utilize log management tools and performance data to author and submit RCA reports following service outages.
• Perform hardware repair procedures and activities.

Qualifications

Experience:

• 7+ years of experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS.
• 7+ years of experience with VMware vCenter and ESXi hypervisors.
• 5+ years of experience supporting Tomcat, Apache, JBoss, Oracle, and MySQL.
• Knowledge of Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) or oVirt.
• Knowledge of Cisco UCS and managing systems via UCSCentral.
• Ability to write shell scripts in bash.
• Ability to write custom Ansible playbooks and run them across the environment.
• RHCE Certification is highly recommended.
• VCP Certification is highly recommended.
• Experience in supervision of teams and personnel.

Preferred Skills:

• Rocky Linux (or other Open Source Enterprise Linux).
• Red Hat Satellite 6 or Katello.
• Red Hat Identity Management (IDM) or FreeIPA.
• A Bachelor’s Degree is strongly preferred.

Clearance Requirements

Must be a U.S. Citizen and able to hold a security clearance. A current/active clearance is not required to apply, but must be able to pass a government Public Trust (SF-85) background investigation.

EEO Statement

We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug‑free workplace and perform pre‑employment substance abuse testing.