Senior VMware Administrator

Elluminates Software; Springfield, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental & Vision

Job summary

Elluminates Software is seeking a full-time Senior VMware Administrator to support the Vanguard 2025 program for the Department of State in Springfield, VA, with eventual relocation to Washington, DC. The role focuses on developing virtualization solutions using VMware and storage technologies and providing secure, cost-effective IT services.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Networking and Datacenter operations, to design and deploy scalable virtualization solutions

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on VMware and vSphere experience.
• Bachelor's degree with related experience; Masters considered.
• Experience documenting requirements for customers.

Responsibilities

• Execute duties as a member of the Infrastructure team.
• Integrate and deploy VMware IT solutions.
• Rack and stack new data center equipment.
• Work with Networking to configure virtual switching.
• Provide operational engineering for enterprise-level virtualization and storage.
• Provision virtual machines and patch software/hardware.
• Update system docs and SOPs.

Skills

VMware

vSphere

Storage technologies

Dell storage

Requirements gathering

Education

BS degree in a related field

Tools

VMware NSX

Job description

Elluminates Software — We Make Your Infrastructure Intelligent

Build your next generation organization with advanced automation and AI tools — purpose-built for enterprise scale. We engineer intelligence into the core of infrastructure for Federal and commercial customers.

Openvista® Suite

• Hyperscaler® — AI for the operators who keep everything running. Design automations, deploy them with confidence, and manage your environment from a single platform → https://www.hyperscaler.ai/

Forward Deployed Engineering Support

• Infrastructure Automation Engineers — Embed directly with your team to design and build automations purpose-built for your environment, eliminating manual toil and delivering operational efficiency at scale.
• Cloud and Data Center Engineers — We can take full ownership of designing, running, and managing your infrastructure across public cloud, private data center, or hybrid environments as a true operational partner.

Job Description

Elluminates Software Corporation is looking for a full-time Senior VMware Administrator. This position is in support of the Department of State (DOS) as a part of the Vanguard 2025 contract. The Vanguard 2025 program provides transparent, interconnected systems and security support for the Department of State (DOS) DT program. The DT program enables the Department of State to successfully carry out its foreign policy mission by providing enterprise architecture design, engineering, operations and maintenance support services for data center services, desktop computers, servers, networks, firewalls, voice and data communications and other unique enterprise applications.

The candidate will be responsible for the development of Virtualization solutions utilizing VMWare and Storage technologies. The candidate will research, analyze, evaluate and integrate as necessary new and emerging technologies in order to find ways to deliver a superior IT environment to the bureaus in a cost effective and secure manner. The candidate will support the continuing goal of incorporating these innovative technologies into the Department’s equipment modernization program.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Execute duties and responsibilities as a member of the Infrastructure team
• Integrate, and deploy VMWare IT solutions
• Rack and Stack new data center equipment
• Work with Networking team and configure virtual switching
• Provide operational engineering support to enterprise-level solutions using virtual server hosting, and Dell storage technologies.
• Provision Virtual Machines and patches to the software and hardware hosting infrastructure.
• Update system and process documentation, user guides, diagrams and SOPs

Required Qualifications

• Senior-level knowledge of VMWare and vSphere integration, and deployment.
• Knowledge or training on VMware and ESX 7.0+ deployment, configuration, and maintenance.
• Experience working with customers to capture/document requirements.

Desired Qualifications

• Red Hat Linux and RHEL Satellite Server
• VMware 8 Experience
• Experience configuring VMware NSX
• LAN/WAN networking experience
• Windows engineer or administrator experience (Active Directory, GPOs, and PowerShell scripting)
• Experience leading system integration projects as the technical lead.
• DOS processes

Years of Experience and Education Requirements

• BS and 5+ years of related experience; Masters and 3+ years; Additional experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.

Type : Full-Time

Clearance : Top Secret

Location : Springfield, VA . Note: This position is expected to transition to Washington, DC in the future; candidates must be willing to support this relocation.

Shift: Normal Business Hours. 5 days on-site.

Type of Travel: Local

Target Salary Range: The anticipated salary range for this position is $130,000.00 to $200,000.00 This range is not a guarantee of compensation. Final salary will be determined based on factors including experience, geographic location, and any applicable contractual requirements, and may fall above or below the stated range.

Benefits: We offer an excellent comprehensive benefits plan that includes Medical, Dental & Vision options and more.