Senior Cloud & Infra Engineer | VMware & Hybrid Cloud

Acuity, Inc.; Washington, Baltimore (District of Columbia, MD); On-site; USD 145,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Acuity, Inc. is seeking a Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer (IaaS) to support the U.S. Department of State.

The role focuses on enterprise VMware environments, Windows Server, Linux, and hyperconverged infrastructure across data centers, on-premises, and cloud. You will design, deploy, and maintain HA, DR, backup, and resiliency solutions, automate tasks with scripting tools, and collaborate with cybersecurity, network, and cloud teams to meet NIST/RMF/safeguards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of enterprise infrastructure experience.
• Extensive VMware experience including ESXi and vCenter administration.
• Strong Windows Server and Linux administration in enterprise environments.
• Experience with compute and HCI platforms in highly available production environments.
• Experience administering SAN/NAS storage and storage integrations.
• Tier 3 infrastructure troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Experience with high availability, disaster recovery, backup, resiliency, and business continuity.
• Experience with lifecycle management including EOL/EOS remediation.
• Experience with AWS or Azure and cloud/hybrid-cloud integration.
• Familiarity with ITSM processes and NIST RMF/FISMA/STIGs; strong documentation and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, administer, and maintain enterprise data center, compute, virtualization, storage, HCI, operating system, and hybrid-cloud infrastructure supporting mission-critical operations.
• Provide significant hands-on administration and engineering support for enterprise VMware environments, including ESXi, vCenter, clusters, virtual networking, resource management, upgrades, patching, and lifecycle activities.
• Deploy, configure, administer, patch, harden, and troubleshoot Windows Server and Linux operating systems supporting enterprise applications and infrastructure services.
• Engineer and support enterprise compute and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), including integration with virtualization, networking, storage, backup, and disaster recovery services.
• Administer and troubleshoot enterprise SAN/NAS storage platforms and virtualization-storage integrations, including capacity, performance, availability, connectivity, and lifecycle considerations.
• Provide Tier 3 infrastructure troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex issues spanning servers, virtualization, storage, operating systems, cloud services, and dependent infrastructure components.
• Design, implement, test, and maintain high-availability, disaster recovery, backup, resiliency, and business-continuity capabilities for mission-critical infrastructure.
• Plan and execute infrastructure lifecycle activities, including technology refresh, patching, upgrades, migrations, and remediation of end-of-life (EOL) and end-of-support (EOS) hardware and software.
• Monitor infrastructure health, availability, capacity, and performance using enterprise monitoring and observability platforms; identify trends, constraints, and opportunities for proactive remediation and optimization.
• Use PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform, or similar technologies to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, administration, compliance, and repetitive operational tasks.
• Support Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and hybrid-cloud environments using at least one major cloud service provider such as AWS or Microsoft Azure, including integration between cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
• Support overseas and globally distributed infrastructure deployments and coordinate with geographically dispersed or remote teams to maintain consistent, reliable infrastructure services across locations and time zones.
• Operate within established ITSM disciplines, including change, incident, problem, configuration, and release management; participate in root cause analysis and continuous service improvement.
• Partner with Cybersecurity teams to implement federal security and configuration requirements, including system hardening, vulnerability remediation, secure baselines, STIG-aligned controls, NIST/RMF compliance, and continuous monitoring.
• Collaborate with Cloud and Automation Engineers to implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, standardized deployment patterns, and infrastructure modernization while maintaining operational stability.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, infrastructure diagrams, configuration standards, runbooks, operational procedures, and lifecycle roadmaps.
• Perform additional duties as assigned in support of customer mission objectives.

Skills

VMware ESXi

vCenter

Windows Server

Linux

HCI

SAN/NAS

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Ansible

Terraform

AWS

Azure

ITSM

NIST RMF

Cloud Hybrid

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

VMware vSphere

OpenStack

Job description

Acuity, Inc. is seeking a Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Engineer (IaaS) to support the U.S. Department of State.

The role focuses on enterprise VMware environments, Windows Server, Linux, and hyperconverged infrastructure across data centers, on-premises, and cloud. You will design, deploy, and maintain HA, DR, backup, and resiliency solutions, automate tasks with scripting tools, and collaborate with cybersecurity, network, and cloud teams to meet NIST/RMF/safeguards.