Virtual Platform Administrator

Esmcorp; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Esmcorp is seeking an experienced virtualization engineer to manage and optimize virtualized infrastructure across on‑premises data centers and cloud environments. The role covers installation, upgrades, patching, troubleshooting, and performance tuning to ensure reliability and security in development through production stages.

The candidate will monitor health, capacity, and availability, automate routine tasks, and maintain accurate system configurations and documentation.

Qualifications

• Seven years of progressive experience in management and maintenance of virtualized server environments including large scale, multi-disciplinary projects.
• DOD 8570 baseline certification - IAT Level II.
• Top Secret clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Manages and maintains virtualized infrastructure across on‑premises data centers and cloud environments.
• Implements, upgrades, patches, and troubleshoots hosts, hypervisors, VMs, apps, and supporting infra across environments.
• Monitors health, performance, capacity, and availability; automates tasks and optimizes virtualization for stability and security.
• Maintains configurations and documentation; supports capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Contributes to virtualization disaster recovery and fault tolerance planning.

Skills

Virtualization

Hypervisors

Virtual machines

Cloud environments

Capacity planning

Performance tuning

Disaster recovery

Documentation

Communication

Education

Seven years of progressive experience in virtualized server environments

DOD 8570 baseline certification - IAT Level II

Job description

Job Description and Responsibilities

Manages and maintains virtualized infrastructure across on-premises data centers and private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. Implements, upgrades, patches, and troubleshoots hosts, hypervisors, virtual machines, applications, and supporting infrastructure across development, test, pre-production, and production environments. Monitors system health, performance, capacity, and availability; automates administrative tasks and optimizes virtualized environments to ensure stability, security, and performance. Maintains accurate system configurations and documentation, supports capacity planning and performance tuning, and contributes to virtualization disaster recovery and fault-tolerance planning.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA)

• Knowledge of virtualization technologies, hypervisors, virtual machines, and supporting infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments.


• Ability to implement, upgrade, patch, and maintain virtualized systems across development, test, and production environments.


• Ability to monitor and troubleshoot virtualization infrastructure to maintain system availability, stability, security, and performance.


• Knowledge of cloud computing and private, public, and hybrid cloud environments.


• Ability to perform capacity planning, performance analysis, tuning, and optimization of virtualized systems.


• Knowledge of virtualization disaster recovery, fault tolerance, configuration management, and system documentation practices.

Desired KSA

• Be a positive, self-motivated, and proactive person with the ability to adapt to change and tolerate stressful situations


• Candidate must communicate effectively with team members, team lead, management, and government customers


• Must have the ability and desire to research and develop creative solutions to unique problems with minimal supervision

Minimum Training, Education, and Certifications

• Seven (7) years of progressive experience in the management and maintenance of virtualized server environments and hosted applications. At least two years of qualifying experience must include managing successful large scale, multi-disciplinary (network, virtualization, systems administration) projects involving virtual servers

• DOD 8570 baseline certification - IAT Level II

Minimum Clearance

• Top Secret