Senior Virtualization & Storage Engineer

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

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior Virtualization & Storage Engineer to support a DoD-focused mission in San Diego, CA. The role designs, administers, and optimizes enterprise virtualization and storage platforms to sustain classified operations and high-availability workloads.

You will lead as a senior technical resource, ensuring reliability, security, and scalability of infrastructure while complying with RMF and STIGs. On-site collaboration with a national defense team is expected.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise virtualization and storage.
• Hands-on with VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter and Dell storage platforms.
• Active Secret Security Clearance and RMF/STIG compliance experience.
• Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering (or equivalent).
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification.
• Experience in DoD/classified environments with RMF/STIG compliance.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, administer, and optimize VMware vSphere/ESXi environments, including clusters, resource pools, distributed switches, and high availability configurations.
• Design, implement, and maintain Dell enterprise storage platforms, SAN/NAS environments, replication strategies, snapshots, and capacity planning initiatives.
• Perform troubleshooting and performance optimization across virtualization, storage, networking, and compute infrastructure layers.
• Support infrastructure automation, DevSecOps integrations, and containerized or traditional virtual machine workloads through scripting and orchestration tools.
• Ensure compliance with RMF, DISA STIGs, and DoD cybersecurity requirements while maintaining documentation and operational runbooks.

Skills

10+ years exp

Active Security Clearance

RMF/STIG familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification

Tools

VMware vSphere

Dell PowerStore

Dell Unity

Dell PowerMax

Xen Hypervisor

PowerShell

PowerCLI

Python

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior Virtualization & Storage Engineer to support a company focused on delivering secure, mission-critical infrastructure solutions within Department of Defense classified environments. This position is on-site in San Diego, CA. The Senior Virtualization & Storage Engineer will design, administer, and optimize enterprise virtualization and storage platforms that support classified operations and high-availability workloads. This individual will serve as a senior technical resource responsible for maintaining resilient infrastructure, improving performance, and supporting modernization initiatives across compute and storage environments. Join a team supporting critical national defense missions by ensuring the reliability, security, and scalability of enterprise infrastructure systems.

Responsibilities for the Senior Virtualization & Storage Engineer include:

• Engineer, administer, and optimize VMware vSphere/ESXi environments, including clusters, resource pools, distributed switches, and high availability configurations.
• Design, implement, and maintain Dell enterprise storage platforms, SAN/NAS environments, replication strategies, snapshots, and capacity planning initiatives.
• Perform troubleshooting and performance optimization across virtualization, storage, networking, and compute infrastructure layers.
• Support infrastructure automation, DevSecOps integrations, and containerized or traditional virtual machine workloads through scripting and orchestration tools.
• Ensure compliance with RMF, DISA STIGs, and DoD cybersecurity requirements while maintaining documentation and operational runbooks.

Required Qualifications for the Senior Virtualization & Storage Engineer include:

• 10+ years of experience supporting enterprise virtualization, storage, and infrastructure environments.
• Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, Xen, and Dell enterprise storage platforms (PowerStore, Unity, PowerMax, or similar technologies).
• Strong troubleshooting experience across compute, storage, networking, and virtualization technologies within secure environments.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Active Secret Security Clearance.
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification (Security+, CySA+, GSEC, SSCP, GICSP, or CCNA Security).
• Experience supporting DoD or classified environments and working within RMF and STIG compliance frameworks.

Compensation for the Senior Virtualization & Storage Engineer include:

Salary Range:

$160,000 - $170,000 depending on experience

Full Benefits Package:

PTO, Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Tuition Reimbursement, Sick Leave as required by law

Keywords:

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