Virtualization Specialist (RHEL)

Ascension Fed; Georgia; On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascension Federal Services, Inc. seeks candidates to support a Scalable GEOINT program. The role sustains virtual infrastructure for GEOINT production and ensures secure, resilient compute and storage services.

Responsibilities include configuring OpenShift and VMware ESXi, sizing resources, and integrating Cisco UCS with hosted systems. A TS/SCI clearance is required; on-site work in Georgia with potential travel is expected.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years in systems administration/engineering; bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Significant virtualization knowledge, specifically Red Hat OpenShift, is required.
• Desirable: Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration.

Responsibilities

• Configure and troubleshoot virtualization platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift and VMware ESXi environments.
• Size virtual resources and coordinate CPU, memory, networking, storage, redundancy, and failover requirements.
• Integrate Cisco UCS compute and SAN/NAS storage with hosted operating systems and applications.
• Apply security configurations, vulnerability remediation, monitoring, and approved change controls.
• Document configurations and support backup, recovery, and modernization activities.

Skills

System administration

Virtualization

OpenShift

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Red Hat OpenShift

VMware ESXi

Cisco UCS

Job description

Ascension Federal Services, Inc. (AFS) is seeking candidates to support a Scalable GEOINT program. Sustain the virtual infrastructure supporting GEOINT production and help deliver secure, resilient compute and storage services.

Responsibilities

• Configure and troubleshoot virtualization platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift and VMware ESXi environments.
• Size virtual resources and coordinate CPU, memory, networking, storage, redundancy, and failover requirements.
• Integrate Cisco UCS compute and SAN/NAS storage with hosted operating systems and applications.
• Apply security configurations, vulnerability remediation, monitoring, and approved change controls.
• Document configurations and support backup, recovery, and modernization activities.

Required qualifications

• 7-10+ years in systems administration/engineering; bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience. Significant systems-analysis experience and expert-level virtualization knowledge, specifically Red Hat OpenShift.
• Desired: Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration certification.

Security and assignment requirements

• Final Top Secret clearance required at start of work. This is a TS/SCI mission; SCI access is subject to customer requirements. Meet applicable cyber workforce certification and computing-environment training requirements before performance/privileged access.
• On-site assignment; shift, weekend, on-call, and travel support may be required. Employment is contingent on contract award and position authorization.