Senior DoD Virtualization & Storage Engineer (Onsite)

Zachary Piper Solutions; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k)

PTO/Sick Leave

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions in San Diego, CA is seeking a Senior Virtualization & Storage Engineer to support NIWC Pacific in a classified environment. This full-time, onsite role focuses on designing, optimizing, and sustaining enterprise virtualization and storage infrastructure for mission-critical DoD systems and workloads.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in virtualization and storage, active DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification, and strong VMware and Dell storage expertise.

Qualifications

• Active DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification required (e.g., Security+, CySA+, SSCP, GSEC, GICSP or CCNA Security).
• 10+ years of enterprise virtualization and storage engineering experience.
• Extensive VMware vSphere/ESXi and vCenter administration experience.
• Experience with Xen virtualization platforms and Dell storage solutions.
• DoD/regulatory environment experience with RMF and DISA STIGs.
• Strong scripting and infrastructure automation capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, administer, and optimize VMware vSphere/ESXi environments and vCenter.
• Manage clusters, resource pools, DVS, high-availability, lifecycle upgrades.
• Design, implement, and sustain Dell PowerStore/Unity/PowerMax storage stacks.
• Support DR, capacity planning, SAN/NAS, iSCSI, FC, NFS across environments.
• Integrate virtualization with secure CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps workflows.
• Ensure security compliance with DISA STIGs and RMF controls.
• Develop automation using PowerShell/PowerCLI/Python; maintain runbooks.

Skills

VMware vSphere

ESXi

VMware vCenter

Xen virtualization

Dell storage

RMF

DISA STIG

DoD cybersecurity

Scripting

PowerShell

PowerCLI

Python

Automation tools

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions in San Diego, CA is seeking a Senior Virtualization & Storage Engineer to support NIWC Pacific in a classified environment. This full-time, onsite role focuses on designing, optimizing, and sustaining enterprise virtualization and storage infrastructure for mission-critical DoD systems and workloads.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in virtualization and storage, active DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification, and strong VMware and Dell storage expertise.