Systems Engineer (MUST HAVE DoD TS)

Sandtechsolutions; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandoval Technology Solutions LLC operates at the National Military Command Center (NMCC), Pentagon, and requires a U.S. citizen with TS/SCI clearance. The role centers on senior systems administration for enterprise VMware environments, Windows Server, Active Directory, and STIG-compliant security.

The candidate will perform Hyper-V to VMware migrations, manage Dell PowerVault SAN storage, and oversee Veeam backup/recovery within a large-scale data center environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years overall experience with at least 3 years specialized in systems administration.
• Experience administering multi-server LANs and enterprise systems.
• Strong background in VMware environments, Windows Server, Active Directory, and security baselines.

Responsibilities

• Experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting enterprise VMware deployments.
• Migrate workloads between virtualization platforms (e.g., Hyper-V to VMware).
• Plan and execute server data migrations and DR processes.

Skills

Systems administration

VMware environments

Windows Server Administration

Active Directory

Network cabling

SAN storage management

Education

Computer Science / Computer Systems

Information Systems / Information Technology

Software Engineering / Programming

Management

Natural Sciences

Mathematics

Business / Finance

Related discipline

Tools

VMware ESXi

VMware vSphere

VMware vCenter

VMware clusters

Dell PowerVault ME5 Series SAN

iSCSI

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Location: National Military Command Center (NMCC), Pentagon

Work Location: 100% onsite

Hours: Monday–Friday, core hours between 6:00 AM–4:00 PM

Citizenship: Must be a U.S. Citizen

Required Security Clearance: TS/SCI

Experience

• Minimum of 4 years of overall experience.
• At least 3 years of specialized experience administering computer systems.
• Experience operating or supporting:
• Multi-server local area networks
• Experience with:
• Systems administration
• Systems architecture
• Systems integration
• Hardware/software configuration management
• System optimization
• Capacity analysis and planning
• Server/data migrations
• Troubleshooting
• Requirements management

Education

• Computer Science / Computer Systems
• Information Systems / Information Technology
• Software Engineering / Programming
• Management
• Natural Sciences
• Social Sciences
• Mathematics
• Business / Finance
• Related discipline

Education / Experience Substitution

• Master’s degree in a related discipline plus:
• 3 years general experience
• At least 2 years specialized experience
• OR
• 8 years general experience
• At least 6 years specialized experience

Required Certification

• Must possess at least one DoD IAT Level II certification, including:
• Security+ CE
• CCNA Security
• CySA+
• GICSP
• GSEC
• CND
• SSCP
• Extensive hands-on experience building and managing VMware environments.
• Extensive experience with:
• VMware ESXi
• VMware vSphere 7.x / 8.x
• VMware vCenter
• VMware clusters
• Experience building VMware environments from the ground up.
• Experience configuring:
• VMware High Availability (HA)
• Host networking
• Virtual switches
• Distributed switches
• Experience implementing and managing enterprise VMware deployments.
• Experience supporting VMware clusters across multi-server enterprise networks.

Dell Server Infrastructure

• Experience with:
• Server racking
• Power cabling
• Network cabling
• ESXi hypervisor installation and configuration
• Experience integrating servers with Dell PowerVault ME5 Series SAN storage arrays or comparable enterprise SAN infrastructure.
• Experience with:
• Fiber-optic storage connectivity
• Direct-Attach Copper (DAC)
• Isolated backend storage fabrics
• Block‑level shared storage
• iSCSI
• Dedicated storage VLANs
• Storage multipathing
• MTU 9000
• Shared storage architectures
• Ability to design and maintain resilient host-to-array connectivity.
• Experience isolating storage traffic from production network traffic.

Hyper-V to VMware Migration

• Proven experience performing physical and/or virtual server migrations.
• Experience performing migrations between virtualization platforms.
• Experience migrating Microsoft Hyper-V workloads to VMware vSphere.
• Experience planning and executing migrations while minimizing:
• Downtime
• Experience validating systems following migration.
• Experience migrating workloads into VMware clustered SAN environments.

Windows Server / Active Directory

• Senior-level experience administering:
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022
• Active Directory
• Group Policy Objects
• Experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting:
• Organizational Units
• Group Policy
• Security policies
• Security baselines
• Experience administering:
• CentOS Linux

Cybersecurity / DISA STIG

• Direct experience hardening systems in accordance with DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).
• Windows Server
• CentOS Linux
• Understanding of:
• DoD cybersecurity requirements
• Cybersecurity risk management
• System security baselines
• Security compliance
• Ability to work closely with cybersecurity teams to identify and minimize risk.

Veeam Backup & Replication

• Extensive hands-on experience with Veeam Backup & Replication.
• Experience designing and managing enterprise backup environments.
• Experience configuring:
• Backup Jobs
• Backup Copy Jobs
• Backup repositories
• Secondary/offsite repositories
• Disaster recovery processes
• Experience protecting:
• Virtual machines
• File servers
• Databases
• Large file shares
• Experience supporting VMware-hosted systems protected by Veeam.

Systems Design & Integration

• Experience integrating mission-critical systems.
• Ability to work directly with third-party vendors to:
• Evaluate solutions
• Develop integration plans
• Implement IT solutions
• Experience establishing baseline hardware/software configurations.
• Experience developing solutions based on system and mission requirements.

Engineering & Technical Documentation

• Experience drafting and reviewing Engineering Installation Plans (EIPs).
• Experience creating and maintaining:
• Standard Operating Procedures
• Technical documentation
• System documentation
• Reports
• Experience documenting technical work in Remedy or comparable ticketing systems.

Troubleshooting

• Strong experience