Cleared Virtualization & HCI Engineer – Nutanix​/VMware Security Clearance

Position: Cleared Virtualization & HCI Engineer – Nutanix / VMware with Security Clearance
About the Opportunity Critical Tilt is continuously seeking experienced Virtualization and Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Engineers to support federal civilian and Department of Defense (DoD) customers across the United States. We have a strong interest in engineers with Nutanix experience, but Nutanix experience or certification is not required for every opportunity. We also want to hear from accomplished VMware and enterprise virtualization/HCI professionals with strong, transferable skills across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and datacenter infrastructure.

Engineers with strong virtualization and HCI fundamentals can transition those skills to the Nutanix technology stack, and opportunities may include training and certification aligned with customer and engagement requirements. Our engineers support a variety of customer requirements—from short-term professional services and modernization projects to mid- and long-term Resident Engineer assignments embedded with customer teams. This is an evergreen recruiting opportunity intended to develop relationships with cleared infrastructure professionals for current and future Critical Tilt engagements throughout CONUS.

The locations associated with this posting represent key recruiting markets where Critical Tilt anticipates customer demand. Candidates located elsewhere in the United States are also encouraged to apply. What You'll Do Responsibilities will vary by customer and engagement and may include:

- Design, deploy, configure, administer, optimize, and troubleshoot enterprise virtualization and hyperconverged infrastructure
- Support Nutanix AHV and HCI environments, as well as VMware and other enterprise virtualization technologies
- Assist customers with infrastructure modernization, platform migrations, technology refreshes, and virtualization or HCI transformation
- Assess existing environments and develop technical recommendations, implementation approaches, and migration strategies
- Support enterprise compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and associated infrastructure services
- Support container and application-platform technologies such as Red Hat Open Shift, Kubernetes, and Docker
- Perform system configuration, security hardening, patching, vulnerability remediation, and lifecycle management
- Support vulnerability-management and remediation activities within federal security and compliance environments
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, virtualization, storage, compute, networking, and platform issues
- Work collaboratively with customer engineering, operations, cybersecurity, program, and mission teams
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, implementation procedures, configuration information, operational guidance, and knowledge-transfer materials
- Support federal and DoD security requirements, change-control processes, compliance activities, and operational procedures
- Serve as a trusted technical resource during project-based engagements or as an embedded Resident Engineer supporting longer-term customer requirements

Required Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with enterprise virtualization, hyperconverged infrastructure, or related datacenter technologies
- Strong understanding of virtualization concepts and the underlying compute, storage, and networking technologies supporting enterprise virtualized environments

- Experience with one or more enterprise virtualization or HCI platforms, such as Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphere/ESXi, VMware Cloud Foundation, or comparable technologies
- Experience supporting enterprise infrastructure implementation, administration, modernization, migration, or operations
- Ability to troubleshoot complex enterprise infrastructure and virtualization issues
- Experience working in federal civilian and/or DoD environments, including security- and compliance-driven operational requirements

- Experience with or working knowledge of system security hardening, vulnerability management, patching, and remediation
- Ability to work directly and effectively with customer engineering, operations, cybersecurity, and mission stakeholders
- Active U.S. Government SECRET personnel…