Onsite Senior Virtualization Engineer: VMware & VDI Modernization

GCyber; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GCyber in Fort Meade is seeking a Senior Virtualization Engineer to lead the design, administration, and optimization of the enterprise virtualization platform for a mission-critical federal customer. This role focuses on VMware, VDI, and lifecycle management, with security and modernization initiatives.

You will mentor junior engineers, collaborate with systems, storage, networking, and cybersecurity teams, and ensure highly available infrastructure across locations.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI Security Clearance is required.
• DoD 8140/8570 IAT Level II certification required.
• 7+ years of experience in enterprise IT infrastructure including virtualization, servers, storage, and networking.

Responsibilities

• Own the health, performance, security, and lifecycle management of the enterprise virtualization environment.
• Design, implement, administer, and optimize VMware virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments
• Build and maintain highly available virtualization clusters supporting mission-critical workloads.
• Lead infrastructure modernization, hardware refreshes, platform upgrades, and migration efforts with minimal operational impact.
• Install, configure, integrate, and support enterprise server hardware and virtualization infrastructure.
• Develop testing strategies, validate infrastructure changes, and document implementation results.
• Troubleshoot complex virtualization, storage, networking, and VDI issues across enterprise environments.
• Support enterprise operations spanning multiple geographic locations and networks.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, networking, storage, and cybersecurity teams to deliver integrated enterprise solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and establish virtualization engineering best practices.
• Support or lead special projects and strategic initiatives that improve reliability, scalability, automation, and operational efficiency.

Skills

VMware vSphere

VMware Horizon

PowerShell/PowerCLI

VDI

Networking concepts

Troubleshooting

Security/compliance

Documentation

Education

Active TS/SCI Security Clearance

DoD 8140/8570 IAT Level II certification

Tools

VMware vSAN

Job description

GCyber in Fort Meade is seeking a Senior Virtualization Engineer to lead the design, administration, and optimization of the enterprise virtualization platform for a mission-critical federal customer. This role focuses on VMware, VDI, and lifecycle management, with security and modernization initiatives.

You will mentor junior engineers, collaborate with systems, storage, networking, and cybersecurity teams, and ensure highly available infrastructure across locations.