Senior Platform Engineer: VMware & Private Cloud

Electrosoft; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Electrosoft Services, LLC is seeking an experienced IT infrastructure professional to design, deploy, and optimize VMware vSphere environments across a multi-site private cloud. You will manage the full VM lifecycle, storage, servers, and automation, while ensuring security controls and 24x7 on-call support.

Required: 8+ years in enterprise IT, strong VMware expertise, NetApp storage, and familiarity with DISA STIGs and NIST 800-53. Certifications like VCP-DCV or RHCE are valued.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of IT infrastructure experience, including hands-on enterprise VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter administration beyond VM provisioning.

Responsibilities

• VMware / Private Cloud Platform: Design, deploy, administer, and optimize VMware vSphere 8/9 environments (ESXi, vCenter), including clusters, resource pools, HA, DRS, vMotion/Storage vMotion, and vSphere Distributed Switches across a geographically dispersed, multi-site private cloud.
• Manage the full VM lifecycle—provisioning, patching, capacity planning, performance tuning, and decommissioning—and perform vSphere platform upgrades and migrations.
• Storage & Hardware: Administer NetApp ONTAP and E-Series storage (volumes, LUNs, aggregates, snapshots, replication) and Brocade Fibre Channel switches (zoning, LUN masking); monitor storage performance and capacity.
• Manage Dell server hardware using OpenManage and iDRAC, including firmware/BIOS lifecycle, health monitoring, and hardware fault resolution.
• Server Infrastructure: Administer Windows Server (2016–2022) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (8/9) platforms, including Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, and Certificate Services.
• Automation: Develop and maintain automation using PowerShell, PowerCLI, Bash, and/or Python, and configuration management tools such as Ansible, for provisioning, patching, compliance, and routine operations.
• Backup & DR: Administer and validate enterprise backup and disaster recovery (Commvault/Metallic hybrid cloud), including recovery testing and alignment to RPO/RTO requirements.
• Security & Compliance: Harden virtualization and server platforms to DISA STIGs, CIS Benchmarks, and NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5; support vulnerability remediation, audits, and patch management per NIST SP 800-40r4 and CSO SOPs.
• Operations & Support: Provide Tier 3/4 troubleshooting and root cause analysis across compute, storage, and network layers; support F5 LTM load balancing and VMware Horizon VDI/UAG as needed.
• Submit scheduled outages to the CSO ERB/CCB; meet STIM outage notification requirements (within 30 minutes) and keep configuration backups current within 2 business days of changes.
• Documentation & Collaboration: Maintain SOPs, system diagrams, configuration records, and runbooks; mentor junior administrators; collaborate with Network, Security, Firewall, and Database teams; participate in a 24/7/365 on-call rotation.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field (or equivalent combination of education and experience).

Skills

VMware vSphere

Windows Server

RHEL Linux

Automation

NetApp storage

Brocade switches

PowerShell/PowerCLI

Ansible

DISA STIGs

24x7 on-call

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field

Tools

NetApp ONTAP

Brocade Fibre Channel

PowerShell

PowerCLI

Bash

Python

Ansible

Commvault

Job description

Electrosoft Services, LLC is seeking an experienced IT infrastructure professional to design, deploy, and optimize VMware vSphere environments across a multi-site private cloud. You will manage the full VM lifecycle, storage, servers, and automation, while ensuring security controls and 24x7 on-call support.

Required: 8+ years in enterprise IT, strong VMware expertise, NetApp storage, and familiarity with DISA STIGs and NIST 800-53. Certifications like VCP-DCV or RHCE are valued.