Senior Virtualization & Storage Architect – Onsite DoD

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401(k)

Paid Time Off

Sick Leave

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Senior Virtualization & Storage Engineer to design, optimize, and sustain enterprise virtualization and storage for NIWC Pacific in a 100% onsite San Diego, CA environment.

Active DoD clearance is required; 10+ years of relevant experience in VMware, Dell storage, RMF/DISA STIGs, and automation scripting with PowerShell/PowerCLI or Python. The role emphasizes secure CI/CD integration and mission-critical operations.

Qualifications

• Active Secret Clearance required to work in classified DoD environments.
• 10+ years of enterprise virtualization and storage engineering experience.
• Expertise with VMware vSphere/ESXi and vCenter administration.
• Experience with Xen virtualization platforms.
• Experience administering Dell storage products (PowerStore/Unity/PowerMax).
• Knowledge of RMF, DISA STIGs, and DoD cybersecurity controls.
• Scripting and automation skills (PowerShell/PowerCLI, Python).
• Ability to design high-availability virtualization/storage architectures.
• Experience integrating virtualization with secure CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, administer, and optimize VMware vSphere/ESXi environments.
• Manage clusters, resource pools, DVS, and HA configurations.
• Perform host lifecycle management, patching, upgrades, maintenance.
• Troubleshoot performance across compute, storage, networking layers.
• Design resilient virtualization architectures for classified environments.
• Support VM provisioning automation and DevSecOps integration.
• Administer VMware vCenter and participate in migrations (VMware-to-Xen).
• Engineer and administer Dell storage platforms; manage SAN/NAS.

Skills

VMware vSphere/ESXi

VMware vCenter

Xen virtualization

PowerShell/PowerCLI

Python scripting

DoD cybersecurity

RMF/DISA STIG

Automation & CI/CD

Disaster recovery planning

High availability architecture

Tools

Dell PowerStore/Unity/PowerMax

SAN/NAS

iSCSI/Fibre Channel/NFS

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Senior Virtualization & Storage Engineer to design, optimize, and sustain enterprise virtualization and storage for NIWC Pacific in a 100% onsite San Diego, CA environment.

Active DoD clearance is required; 10+ years of relevant experience in VMware, Dell storage, RMF/DISA STIGs, and automation scripting with PowerShell/PowerCLI or Python. The role emphasizes secure CI/CD integration and mission-critical operations.