Senior VMware & Storage Engineer — Onsite DoD Role

Zachary Piper Solutions

San Diego, Northern (CA, KY)

Hybrid

USD 160,000 - 170,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Senior Virtualization & Storage Engineer to support NIWC Pacific in a San Diego, CA classified environment. The role is 100% onsite as a full-time position focusing on enterprise virtualization and storage infrastructure for DoD workloads.

Responsibilities include VMware ESXi/vSphere and vCenter administration, Dell storage platforms, SAN/NAS, and securing CI/CD pipelines per RMF/DISA STIGs, with Xen migration experience and strong scripting skills in

Qualifications

Active Secret Clearance required for DoD work.
10+ years of engineering experience in virtualization and storage.
Extensive VMware vSphere/ESXi and vCenter administration.
Experience with Dell storage platforms (PowerStore/Unity/PowerMax).
Experience with Xen virtualization and DoD environments.

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, memory, storage, and network virtualization layers.
Design resilient virtualization architectures for classified environments.
Support VM provisioning automation and DevSecOps workflows.
Administer VMware vCenter environments.
Support migrations including VMware-to-Xen.