Senior Virtualization & Storage Engineer - DoD Classified

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 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.