Network Engineer; Virtualization Specialist

Position Title: Network Engineer (Virtualization Specialist)

Location: Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado Springs, CO

Remote/Telework: No – Not available for this position

Clearance Required: Must be a US Citizen with an active DoD Secret clearance

Work Schedule: Day shift

The Network Engineer (Virtualization Specialist) supports the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions (IRES) contract.

• Serve as a Network Engineer – Virtualization Specialist supporting network build‐out and deployments to the C2
  
  BMC Test Facility as required by the MDA.
• Work on complex assignments and perform a wide range of VMware system administration activities with little to no direct supervision.
• Provide root‑cause analysis for recurring or critical problems.
• Work closely with a team of system administrators, network engineers, and cybersecurity administrators to maintain a high‑quality test environment for the government customer.
• Perform vulnerability remediation and mitigations to reduce cybersecurity risks and ensure DoD compliance.
• Conduct daily system monitoring, system backup and restoration, and application upgrades to ensure optimal and continuous system operations.
• Document necessary system changes and actions in appropriate systems of record to ensure historical data is captured per customer and mission requirements.
• Advise government customer on system status, optimization and improvement efforts in accordance with program objectives and design baselines as needed.
• Use REMEDY ticketing system to report, track and document problem and resolution life‑cycle actions on faulty systems.

• Have a strong understanding of troubleshooting and configuration of VMware, including protocols, switching, best‑practice configurations, connectivity, and networking concepts.
• Be able to work collaboratively in a team environment with other network engineers as well as independently on large field projects.
• Have good written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated experience briefing customers and management.

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must have an active DoD Secret Security Clearance (Candidates with exceptional qualifications may be considered without a clearance on a case‑by‑case basis).
• Must have 10 or more years of general full‑time work experience (may be reduced with completion of advanced education).
• Must have 7 or more years of directly related experience.
• Must have 1 or more years of experience working in a management or leadership role.
• Must have experience in Internet Protocols (e.g., DNS, HTTP, SMTP, SSL), firewall configuration and troubleshooting.
• Must be an effective communicator with excellent writing and presentation skills using Microsoft PowerPoint and Visio drawing tools.
• Must have a deep understanding of Foundational VCF Infrastructure including virtualization (vSphere), networking (NSX) and storage (vSAN).
• Must be able to use SDDC Manager to patch, upgrade and provide overall system maintenance.
• Must have a fundamental understanding of how traffic flows through logical routers with the ability to implement these concepts in an NSX environment.
• Must be able to configure distributed stateful firewalling, NAT, load balancing and micro‑segmentation using NSX.
• Must have experience creating and configuring virtual distributed switches.
• Must have experience with the design, installation, upgrading and migration of storage using VMware vSAN.
• Must be able to migrate virtual machines and workloads from deprecated versions of vSphere to VMware Cloud Foundation.
• Must have a current DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification (Security+, CySA, etc.) or higher.

• Experience with PIM, L2 and L3 multicast and type I encryption devices.
• Experience with VXLAN, Juniper Apstra, VMware Aria and RHEL Ansible.
• VMware Certified Technical Associate – Data Center Virtualization (VCTA), VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCP‑DCV), VCAP Design, VCAP Deploy or VCDX‑DCV Certification.
• Knowledge of missile defense, DoD communications systems and MDIOC operations.
• Cisco Certified Network Associate…