Senior Server & Virtualization Lead – DoD Ops

Caelum Research Corporation; Huntsville, Northern (AL, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Life Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Job summary

Caelum Research Corporation in Huntsville, AL is seeking a Server Lead to drive enterprise compute, virtualization, and infrastructure modernization for a DoD contract.

You will oversee Windows/Linux, VMware and OpenShift, manage availability and security baselines, and plan upgrades while coordinating with field teams.

Active DoD clearance is required; on‑site work and after‑hours support are expected.

Qualifications

• 8+ years enterprise server/infrastructure engineering with technical-lead responsibility.
• Advanced Windows Server and Linux/RHEL administration.
• Strong VMware, storage, backup, VDI and high-availability knowledge.
• DoD STIG, patching, vulnerability remediation and secure-baseline experience.
• Ability to support on-site and after-hours escalation.
• Ability to obtain and maintain required clearance/access.

Responsibilities

• Lead Windows/Linux, VMware ESXi/vSphere/vCenter/VCF, VDI and Red Hat OpenShift environments.
• Own availability, capacity, performance, patching, lifecycle planning and configuration baselines.
• Lead backup/recovery, restoration testing, replication, retention and RPO/RTO achievement.
• Integrate DISA STIGs, vulnerability remediation, privileged access, logging and RMF continuous monitoring.
• Plan upgrades and migrations with testing, rollback, change control and validation.
• Automate operations using PowerShell, Ansible or approved orchestration.
• Maintain system plans, diagrams, SOPs, inventories, recovery procedures and RMF evidence.
• Serve as senior escalation authority for mission-impacting infrastructure events.

Skills

Technical leadership

Windows Server administration

Linux/RHEL administration

VMware/VDI

Security baselines (STIG)

On-call support

DoD clearance readiness

Tools

VMware VCP/VCAP

OpenShift

Red Hat

VCF/SDDC Manager

Cohesity/Dell PowerProtect

Job description

Caelum Research Corporation in Huntsville, AL is seeking a Server Lead to drive enterprise compute, virtualization, and infrastructure modernization for a DoD contract.

You will oversee Windows/Linux, VMware and OpenShift, manage availability and security baselines, and plan upgrades while coordinating with field teams.

Active DoD clearance is required; on‑site work and after‑hours support are expected.