Virtualization​/Automation Engineer; Journeyman

Computer World Services, Corp. (CWS) seeks a Virtualization / Automation Engineer to operate, maintain, automate, and improve the virtualization and Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) platforms supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program, including VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager (SRM), and associated Infrastructure as Code capabilities.

The role focuses on the hypervisor and SDDC platform layers across production, development, test, COOP, disaster-recovery, and hybrid-hosting environments; guest operating systems, applications, databases, and cloud workloads remain with their respective teams. The engineer also supports the transition of applicable services to centralized DISA-hosting platforms through discovery, migration support, validation, and stabilization.

• Configure, administer, and maintain virtualization clusters, including vSphere HA, DRS, resource pools, hosts, data stores, and distributed switches, and manage ESXi and vCenter patching, upgrades, and certificates.
• Monitor platform capacity, availability, performance, and compliance, and recommend scaling, balancing, or remediation actions.
• Configure and support vSAN clusters, storage policies, and fault domains, and troubleshoot vSAN performance, resynchronization, and policy-compliance issues.
• Configure and support NSX segments, transport zones, gateways, routing, and distributed security controls, coordinating changes with network and cybersecurity teams.
• Administer SRM protection groups and recovery plans, execute and document failover and failback tests, and support quarterly COOP exercises and continuity events.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI, or APIs, with version control, peer review, testing, rollback, secrets protection, and drift detection.
• Coordinate with workload owners on resource requirements, placement, templates, and snapshots, preserving the division between platform and workload ownership.
• Provide advanced engineering support for cross-platform incidents, isolate platform faults during outages, and collect evidence for root-cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
• Maintain platform configuration backups, apply DISA STIGs and security baselines, and support RMF evidence, vulnerability remediation, and vendor‑advisory reviews.
• Support technology refreshes and modernization; contribute to capacity, lifecycle, and modernization assessments.
• Support DISA‑hosting transitions through discovery, dependency documentation, readiness assessment, test and rollback plans, cutover, and post‑migration stabilization.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, as‑built documentation, SOPs, and recovery procedures, and provide platform metrics and modernization status for program reporting.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience where permitted by the labor category.
• Minimum of six (6) years of relevant experience in virtualization, systems engineering, data‑center infrastructure, platform engineering, or infrastructure automation.
• Hands‑on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter and with vSAN, NSX, SRM, or comparable software‑defined storage, network‑virtualization, and disaster‑recovery technologies.
• Experience developing or maintaining infrastructure‑automation solutions and troubleshooting issues across compute, storage, network, virtualization, and automation layers.
• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, backup and restoration, capacity management, and lifecycle practices.
• Strong written, verbal, analytical, and technical problem‑solving skills.

• Formal Terraform and Ansible…