Virtual Platform Administrator

Virtual Platform Administrator

Security Clearance : IT-I - Critical Sensitive (Tier 5 / SSBI) / High Risk

Clearance : Top SECRET

IA Level : IAT II

Job Location : Remote

Be available to support meetings at DLA Columbus, OH, and / or Fort Belvoir, VA

Overview :

Nationwide IT Services, NIS, is seeking a Virtual Platform Administrator for a potential opportunity to manage and maintain virtualized infrastructure for on-premises data centers, DoD, and commercial cloud-based offerings for private, public, and hybrid clouds. Performs host, hypervisor, and virtual application software implementations and upgrades for on-premises hypervisors and supporting hardware, software, and applications.

Job Location : Remote

Key Responsibilities :

• Performs corresponding cloud-based infrastructure support for virtual machines, virtual appliances, software, programs, applications, and all applicable virtualized infrastructure components.
• Ensures high availability, security, and integrity of hosts and virtual management applications and resources.
• Monitors hypervisor, infrastructure, and virtualization applications, including setting alerts to maintain the stability of the environment and application, monitoring error logs, and automating administration tasks wherever possible.
• Installs host and virtualization infrastructure application patches and releases on development, test, pre-production, and production systems.
• Serves as a key person in troubleshooting system problems on hosts, hypervisors, and virtual infrastructure.
• Creates and maintains accurate system documentation for assigned systems.
• Maintains current descriptions and documentation of virtualized infrastructure application and system configurations, including tracking and documenting any changes to environments.
• Assists in capacity planning, performance monitoring, and tuning on assigned virtualized systems.
• Participates in virtualization disaster recovery planning, including assisting with fault tolerance and disaster recovery plans.
• Analyzes performance trends to optimize virtualized systems and application performance.

Required Qualifications (Must-Haves) :

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.

Five (5) years of hands-on experience working with and supporting Department of Defense (DoD) Commercial Cloud Hosting solutions.

Security / Certification Requirements :

Sensitivity Level : IT-I - Critical Sensitive (Tier 5 / SSBI) / High Risk

Clearance : SECRET

IA Level : IAT II

8570.01-M Baseline Certification :

One of the following Google Cloud Platform : Google Associate Cloud Engineer, Google Professional Cloud Architect

Plus one of the following :

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Security - Specialty

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

Microsoft Certified : Azure Administrator Associate, Microsoft Certified : Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Operations

Red Hat Certified Engineer

Red Hat Certified System Administrator

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification.

Required Experience : Performing the Following tasks / Responsibilities :

About Nationwide IT Services

NIS is an IT and Management consulting company and is a CVE-verified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business. Our mission is to deliver value-added services to our customers, leveraging technology, people, and industry best practices to implement innovative solutions through our trusted employees and team members.

Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, 401(k) plan with employer match, paid holidays, PTO (sick / vacation), commuter benefits, employee assistance program (EAP), and educational reimbursement, along with Pet Insurance.

Nationwide IT Services, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics, disability, or protected veteran status.