Remote Virtualization & Automation Engineer - SDDC

Computer World Services Corp.; North Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 115,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Computer World Services, Corp. seeks a Virtualization / Automation Engineer to operate, maintain, automate, and improve the virtualization and Software-Defined Data Center platforms supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program, including VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, and SRM.

The role focuses on hypervisor and SDDC layers across production, development, COOP, disaster recovery, and hybrid-hosting environments; travel may be required. Remote position; Chicago, IL–area candidates preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum of six (6) years of relevant virtualization and infrastructure automation experience.
• Hands‑on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, and vSAN/NSX/SRM.
• Experience developing or maintaining infrastructure‑automation solutions across compute, storage, network, and virtualization layers.
• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, backup/restoration, capacity management, and lifecycle practices.
• Strong written, verbal, analytical, and technical problem‑solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Configure, administer, and maintain virtualization clusters (vSphere HA/DRS, resource pools, hosts, datastores, distributed switches).
• Monitor capacity, availability, performance, and compliance; recommend scaling or remediation actions.
• Configure and support vSAN clusters, storage policies, and fault domains; troubleshoot issues.
• Configure and support NSX segments, transport zones, gateways, routing, and distributed security controls.
• Administer SRM protection groups and recovery plans; perform failover/failback tests; support COOP exercises.
• Develop infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI, or APIs with version control and testing.

Skills

Analytical skills

Technical problem-solving

Written and verbal communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

VMware vSphere

ESXi

vCenter

vSAN

NSX

SRM

Terraform

Ansible

PowerCLI

PowerShell

Python

REST APIs

Job description

Computer World Services, Corp. seeks a Virtualization / Automation Engineer to operate, maintain, automate, and improve the virtualization and Software-Defined Data Center platforms supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program, including VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, and SRM.

The role focuses on hypervisor and SDDC layers across production, development, COOP, disaster recovery, and hybrid-hosting environments; travel may be required. Remote position; Chicago, IL–area candidates preferred.