AECC Virtualization Engineer - Systems Engineer - Senior

Company

JTSi (Johnson Technology Systems, Inc.)

AECC Virtualization Engineer – Systems Engineer – Senior

Radford, VA

US

This position is for a Virtualization Engineer supporting the Army Edge Computing Capability (AECC) project that ALTESS is fielding for the U.S. Army. The AECC solution is a hyperconverged, multitenant private cloud hosting environment for hosting Army enterprise and tactical applications. AECC is currently utilizing VMware products (ESXi, vSAN, NSX, vCloud Foundations, ARIA Automation) to implement a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) across multiple global sites.

ALTESS provides value‑added common and managed services that hosted Army applications will require. ALTESS is a managed service provider (MSP) and hosting services provider for Army applications, and it is a Product Director office under the Program Executive Office Enterprise (PEO Enterprise).

• Work with Government engineers to develop and maintain the AECC architecture.
• Develop, deploy, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for deployment and sustainment of the VMware suite of products in the AECC.
• Utilize IaC for the provisioning of customer enclaves as applications are hosted on the AECC solution.
• Provide daily administration of the VMware products, including patching and upgrading all VMware components.
• Monitor utilization of all virtualization resources and notify the AECC lead when additional resources will be required.
• Harden the VMware products per commercial best practices and required government cybersecurity controls.
• Troubleshoot and conduct root‑cause analysis of any hosting platform issues.
• Develop and maintain system, infrastructure, and process documentation (system diagrams, network topology, software configurations, device configurations, standard operating procedures).
• Provide on‑call support for triage and resolution of after‑hours production incidents.
• Make recommendations for improvements to security, scalability, manageability, and performance across diverse network, storage, and compute services and technologies.

• Senior‑level experience with the VMware suite of products (ESXi, vSAN, NSX, vCloud Foundations, ARIA Automation).
• Strong automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across the entire technology stack — network, storage, server, and applications.

• Working knowledge of DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) and the Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM) process.
• Hands‑on experience with container platforms and container orchestration.
• Understanding of Kubernetes networking (CNI) and storage (CSI) principles.
• Experience managing Kubernetes applications using Helm charts and maintaining container images in a registry.
• Experience with Git Ops principles and tools (e.g., Argo CD, Flux).

Bachelor's degree or higher in an IT‑related field.

• Security+ or equivalent DoD 8570.01‑M IA Tech Level II certification.

Senior

Full‑time

IT Services and IT Consulting

$90,000.00 – $