Virtualization Systems Engineer – SME
General Dynamics Information Technology
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Honolulu • Hawaii • United States
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Salary
💰 $147,292 - $199,278 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Provide technical leadership for enterprise virtualization infrastructure
- Design, implement, and maintain highly available, secure virtualization platforms
- Develop long-term modernization roadmaps
- Lead architectural reviews and ensure alignment with DoD reference architectures
- Oversee capacity planning, performance optimization, and lifecycle refresh strategies
- Lead administration of enterprise virtualization environments
- Architect and manage virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions
- Review and approve configuration changes, patching strategies, and upgrades
- Lead root cause analysis for critical outages or performance degradation
- Ensure compliance with DoD cybersecurity policies
- Support ATO processes and audit readiness activities
- Implement secure configuration baselines and hardening procedures
- Oversee day-to-day virtualization operations
- Implement backup, disaster recovery, and continuity of operations (COOP) capabilities
- Develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) and technical documentation
Requirements
- Active Top Secret clearance (SCI eligibility strongly preferred)
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred)
- 15+ years of progressive experience in systems engineering or virtualization
- Deep expertise in VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter
- VDI solutions (Horizon or equivalent)
- Storage integration (SAN/NAS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel)
- Virtual networking (vSwitches, distributed switches, NSX preferred)
- High availability (HA), DRS, clustering, and failover architectures
- Experience supporting classified DoD environments.
- Strong understanding of RMF and ATO processes
- DISA STIGs
- Zero Trust principles
- Backup and disaster recovery solutions
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401K with company match
- Flexible work weeks where possible
- Vacation, sick and personal time
- Holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- Short and long-term disability benefits
- Life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Personal accident, critical illness and business travel accident insurance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
VMware vSphereESXivCenterVDI solutionsSANNASiSCSIFibre ChannelvSwitchesNSX
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcapacity planningperformance optimizationroot cause analysiscompliancedocumentation
Certifications
Top Secret clearanceBachelor’s degreeMaster’s degree