Senior Virtualization Systems Engineer

Complete Professional Services (CPS) is a forward thinking women owned small business with extensive capabilities in systems development, integration, maintenance and support in the Federal Health Care and National Security Information Technology (IT) domains.

Complete Professional Services (CPS) is searching for a Virtualization Senior Systems Engineer – Senior you will provide engineering support the design, employment of VM Ware infrastructure in support of the NETCOM G35. You will analyze troubleshoot VMware Server deployment and virtualization issues and identify important potential technologies and approaches to address current and future needs within the enterprise, evaluate their applicability and fit, and make recommendations to the Government based on the evaluation. You will also assist the Government in defining standards for virtualization technologies and best practices for their use.

Highlights of Responsibilities:

• Provide Army Enterprise virtualization capability to install, configure and manage a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure.
• Provide planning, installing, configuring, and upgrading support for vCenter Server and VMware ESXi. Plan and configure vSphere networking and storage solutions.
• Develop plans for deploying and administering virtual machines and vApps. Establish and maintaining service levels; perform basic troubleshooting; monitor vSphere implementations; and manage vCenter server alarms.
• Provide Army Enterprise virtualization capability to install, configure and manage a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure.
• Prepare ETPs for configuring and managing virtual networks, configuring and managing virtual storage, and virtual machine management.
• Prepare ETPs and provide input on data protection, access, authentication control, resource management, monitoring, high availability, fault tolerance and scalable virtualized infrastructure. 
• Participate in Enterprise testing for integration of proposed new technologies to be included in the Enterprise design and develop test-related documentation. 
• Research and analyze DoD and DA policies to mitigate integration problems that may impact the Enterprise projects.  
• Develop initial system baseline documentation, control system changes for the project configuration management database and maintain system baselines throughout system lifecycle.
• Draft, coordinate, and finalize documentation to ensure the integration of virtualization within the Enterprise.
• Provide Army Enterprise procedures, such as an implementation guide, to ensure technical solutions and schedules are identified within suspense timelines and adhere to Government operational/technical requirements and standards.

Requirements: 
• Provide Army Enterprise virtualization capability to install, configure and manage a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure.
• Provide planning, installing, configuring, and upgrading support for vCenter Server and VMware ESXi. Plan and configure vSphere networking and storage solutions.
• Develop plans for deploying and administering virtual machines and vApps. Establish and maintaining service levels; perform basic troubleshooting; monitor vSphere implementations; and manage vCenter server alarms.
• Provide Army Enterprise virtualization capability to install, configure and manage a highly available and scalable virtual infrastructure.
• Prepare ETPs for configuring and managing virtual networks, configuring and managing virtual storage, and virtual machine management.
• Prepare ETPs and provide input on data protection, access, authentication control, resource management, monitoring, high availability, fault tolerance and scalable virtualized infrastructure. 
• Participate in Enterprise testing for integration of proposed new technologies to be included in the Enterprise design and develop test-related documentation. 
• Research and analyze DoD and DA policies to mitigate integration problems that may impact the Enterprise projects.  
• Develop initial system baseline documentation, control system changes for the project configuration management database and maintain system baselines throughout system lifecycle.
• Draft, coordinate, and finalize documentation to ensure the integration of virtualization within the Enterprise.
• Provide Army Enterprise procedures, such as an implementation guide, to ensure technical solutions and schedules are identified within suspense timelines and adhere to Government operational/technical requirements and standards.

Preferred Education and Experience: 

• Experience in the following areas: vCloud and Managed hosting services in a distributed environment; Virtualization of Storage and Network; Design of bear metal hardware to full virtualization of hosted application; capacity planning and reporting; Design and Implementation of security domains within virtualize environment; designing complex Networks, VLANS, PVPLANS, and Cross Security Zoning design and implementation.  
• Knowledge and experience in technologies such as: Virtual platform, Virtual OS, Virtual application, VMWare, Hypervisor, Virtual storage