Virtualization Engineer (Entry Level to SME) TS​/SCI with Poly REQUIRED

Virtualization Engineer (Entry Level to SME) TS/SCI with Poly REQUIRED

Category:
Project Management

Main location:
United States, Virginia, Arlington

Position : J

Employment Type:

Full Time

CGI Federal has an exciting opportunity for Virtualization Engineers within our Intel sector advancing the national security mission through cutting edge technology. You must have a passion for keeping pace with rapidly evolving technology advancements and leveraging your knowledge on a highly collaborative team to deliver state-of-the-art capabilities.

The Virtualization Engineer supports the IT team by maintaining, monitoring, and troubleshooting virtual machines and basic server infrastructures. They assist senior engineers by building virtual environments, applying system patches, and performing routine hardware health checks.

CGI Federal is growing its high-performance team whose members share a passion for building high-quality, scalable, advanced IT solutions in a collaborative, fast-paced, outcome-driven mission.

This position is located in our Arlington office; however, a hybrid working model is acceptable.

• VM Management:
  Create, provision, and deploy basic virtual machines (VMs) based on standardized templates.
• System Monitoring:
  Track the performance of virtual servers, ensuring they have enough CPU, memory, and disk space.
• Routine Maintenance:
  Assist with software upgrades, system patching, and regular backups.
• Basic Troubleshooting:
  Identify and resolve routine issues related to virtual networking (e.g., VLANs) and data storage.
• Documentation:
  Create and update technical runbooks, diagrams, and standard operating procedures

• VM Management:
  Create, clone, modify, and delete virtual machines and templates based on standard provisioning requests.
• System Monitoring:
  Monitor virtual infrastructure performance using built-in tools (e.g., CPU, RAM, and storage utilization) to spot minor bottlenecks before they escalatetrate.
• First-Line Support:
  Troubleshoot basic end-user and server connectivity issues related to the virtualized environment.
• Routine Maintenance:
  Assist with periodic patching, updates, and managing snapshots/backups of VMs.
• Documentation:
  Create and maintain up-to-date knowledge base articles, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and asset tracking.

• Infrastructure Management:
  Deploy, configure, and maintain virtualized environments across platforms like VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper‑V, or Nutanix.
• Complex Troubleshooting:
  Resolve escalated technical issues (L1 tickets) regarding virtual machine (VM) performance bottlenecks, host resource exhaustion, and compatibility problems.
• Lifecycle & Patch Management:
  Execute routine patching, upgrades, and firmware updates utilizing management tools like VMware vCenter or SDDC Manager.
• Backup & Disaster Recovery:
  Administer enterprise backup solutions (e.g., Veeam, Cohesity) and assist in validating recovery point/time objectives (RPO/RTO).
• Resource Optimization:
  Monitor and tune CPU, memory, and storage allocations to ensure optimal performance and scalability across data centers.
• Automation & Scripting:
  Write and maintain scripts (Power Shell, Python, or Ansible) to automate VM provisioning and configuration management.
• Security & Compliance:
  Implement security hardening, audit virtual environments, and ensure alignment with corporate governance.

• Architect, design, and deploy hyper-converged and highly available virtualization solutions to support diverse, mission-critical workloads.
• Oversee private and public cloud federation, ensuring seamless cloud-bursting and robust disaster recovery (DR) architectures.
• Develop and enforce lifecycle management, capacity planning, and technical blueprints for data center solutions.

• Serve as the Tier-3 / final-escalation point for the resolution of catastrophic system failures, latency bottlenecks, and vendor-level outages.
• Perform complex Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and execute detailed system…