System Administrator; VMWare

Job Brief

The Alaka`ina Foundation Family of Companies (FOCs) is looking for a System Administrator (VMWare) to support our government customer at Fort Shafter, Hawai'i.

Sign-on and relocation expenses are offered on a case-by-case basis.

• Provide enterprise storage and data protection/recovery services. Centrally operate, maintain, secure, and administer related equipment/solutions/tools on multiple enclaves located in remote datacenters across the DoDIN-A Pacific Theater.
• Manage capacity and performance in accordance with required service levels, leveraging clustered, high availability configurations.
• Manage user access controls to VM and SAN storage resources, such as user credentials, SAN fabric and system/switch access control list (ACL) configurations.
• Perform periodic system operations checks and required status reporting.
• Implement, expand, upgrade, harden and provision approved resources following required change and configuration management policies and procedures.
• Manage and monitor trouble tickets and change tasks daily.
• Coordinate and deconflict efforts with other technical teams as needed, such as Networks, Virtualization, Active Directory, and Cyber Security/Compliance.
• Execute authorized service interruption (ASI) maintenance actions with minimal impact to users and services, as needed (sometimes after-hours).
• Participate in cyber security inspections and exercises as directed.
• Comply with all related contract Performance Work Statement (PWS) and related Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements.
• Other duties as assigned by Supervisor.

HOURS:

10x5 Core hours for team coverage (8x5 on-site shifts per employee).

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field, preferred.
• Must meet at least one baseline IA certification under the IAT IIl position category per DoD 8570.01-M upon date of hire.
• Must meet designated Computing Environment (CE) certification (VMware vSphere 8 or storage vendor‑approved certification) within 6 months of hire.

• Enterprise Storage Administration and/or hyper‑converged stack experience (e.g. Dell Compellent, HP 3
  
  PAR, Net App Flex Pod, Dell VxRail, data protection platforms, etc.). Experience installing, cabling, configuring, and provisioning with vendor engineering assistance. Prefer experience with Continuity of Operations (COOP) / Disaster Recovery (DR) principles, tools, and related Business Continuity Planning (BCP). Prefer experience with backup and recovery (BUR) tool administration (such as Net Backup, Commvault or similar).
• Enterprise System Administration experience on Microsoft Windows Server platforms (Win
  2016 or Win
  2019). Understand a wide array of server grade applications to include Windows/Azure Active Directory services, Group Policy Objects, server hardening, security patch and PKI certificate management, and access controls. Enterprise Application and/or Database Administration experience is preferred (such as IIS, SharePoint, MS MECM/SCCM/SCOM, or NAS Fileshare administration). Familiar with running Power Shell / other script command line (CLI) commands.
• Enterprise Network Administration experience. Knowledge and understanding of TCP/IP network architecture and implementation; understand the fundamentals of switch and SAN protocols, architectures, and management. Prefer Cisco switch experience for ethernet and fiber channel fabric configurations.
• Enterprise Server Virtualization experience with VMware vSphere or MS Hyper‑V management GUI’s. Familiar with hypervisor hosts, virtual servers, and related capabilities/services/benefits.
• Knowledge and understanding of DoD information assurance / cyber security principles and DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF) requirements. Prefer experience with cybersecurity inspections and artifact creation. Prefer experience with DoD DISA STIG’s and related tools/products (DoD Enterprise Security Services tools) as well as cybersecurity service provider (CSSP) requirements.
• Prefer knowledge/experience with datacenter operations, to include house power, power distribution units (PDU’s), HVAC, rack elevations and equipment cable management.…