Virtualization System Architect

Job Qualifications

Cloud Architectures, Nutanix Architecture, Service Now Platform, VMware Virtualization.

Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None

Clearance Level Must Be Able To Obtain:
None

Public Trust/Other

Required:

NACI (T1)

Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Cloud Architectures, Nutanix Architecture, Service Now Platform, VMware Virtualization

Certifications:

None

Experience:

15+ years of related experience

US Citizenship

Required:

No

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Virtualization System Architect (VSA) supporting the USPS. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

As a Virtualization System Architect (VSA), you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing virtualized IT environments involving virtualization platforms such as VMware, Hyper‑V or other cloud-based infrastructure solutions like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. Additionally, Virtual System Architects play a critical role in ensuring that virtual systems are efficient, scalable and meet business needs.

• Responsible for the design, configuration, deployment, integration, and maintenance and support of server virtualization and server infrastructure solutions.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) and consult the USPS on best practices for server virtualizations solutions and make recommendations.
• Specialize in building and managing virtual computing platforms.
• Play a critical role in data migration, virtual machine lifecycle management, troubleshooting, tuning and performance, and monitoring of the environment.
• Independently analyze and develop innovative resolutions for complex problems involving availability and/or performance at the component level; work with vendors to resolve problems and implement solutions independently.
• Define, monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot system performance of all server virtualization and other related infrastructure systems.

• Architect and design virtualization server solutions and systems
• Perform systems administration for Windows Server and UNIX/Linux systems such as RHEL and SLES
• Develop automation through scripting and APIs (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Power Shell, Python, Bash, Terraform)
• Perform certificate lifecycle management for systems and applications
• Evaluate inefficiencies with server resources and make right‑sizing recommendations
• Manage and maintain server virtualization platform on premise as well as cloud (e.g. VMware, Nutanix, Harvester, Open Shift, Proxmox, Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Respond promptly to incidents in Service Now
• Will be assigned responsibility for advanced technical issues in the environment for problem resolution
• Diagnose and repair system problems working closely with vendor support for all servers, software and other hardware directly or with the team members
• Define, monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot system performance of all server virtualization and other related infrastructure systems
• Experience with hardening and improving the security of Windows operating systems and hardware platforms, LAN, WAN, messaging, and client‑server applications.
• Ability to develop and maintain IT documentation
• Independently analyze and develop innovative resolutions for complex problems involving availability and/or performance at the component level
• Work with vendors to resolve problems and implement solutions independently
• Participate in efforts to design and deploy AI solutions.

• A degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services is preferred.
  
  NOTE:
  
  Four (4) years’ additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree

• 13+ years of hands‑on experience

• Virtualization experience in one or more of the following: VMware (Specifically VCF), Nutanix, Morpheus, Harvester, Open Stack, Open Shift
• Strong knowledge with container technologies:
  Kubernetes, Rancher, Tanzu, Docker, Podman, etc.
• Automation
  
  Skills:
  
  Ansible / AWX, VMware Power
  
  CLI, Power Shell, Packer, Chocolatey, Terraform
• Cloud Knowledge: AWS, GCP,…