Senior Virtualization Engineer - Fort Gordon, GA - TS/SCI clearance
Senior Virtualization Engineer, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF 9.1)
Location: Fort Gordon, GA (onsite)
Clearance: Active TS/SCI
145-170K
The job
Customer is moving its vSphere 8 estate to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1. We need a mid-level engineer to help design the target environment, build it in a lab, and run the upgrade across classified enclaves.
You'll report to a lead architect and own specific design artifacts and deployment workstreams. A lot of the job is spent with the network, storage, and cybersecurity teams, and in front of government stakeholders explaining your choices. The environment is RMF-accredited, so design decisions turn into control statements someone has to defend.
Scope
Current state is vCenter, ESXi, vSAN, NSX, and Aria-era tooling on vSphere 8.x.
VCF 9.x can import existing vCenter instances at 8.0 Update 3 or later as workload domains. That makes in-place conversion the preferred path over a greenfield build with workload migration. It only works for clusters already at U3, though. Determining how much of the estate sits below that line is early work and it drives the schedule.
From there the work covers:
- Assessing conversion eligibility: build levels, hardware compatibility, vSAN OSA versus ESA, NSX version alignment, certificate and identity dependencies
- Producing the target-state design: management doma
