Virtual Platform Administrator

Responsibilities & Qualifications RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage and maintain virtualized infrastructure for on-premises data centers, DoD, and commercial cloud-based offerings, including private, public, and hybrid clouds.

• Perform host, hypervisor, and virtual application software implementations and upgrades for on-premises hypervisors, supporting hardware, software, and applications.

• Provide cloud-based infrastructure support for virtual machines, virtual appliances, software, programs, applications, and all applicable virtualized infrastructure components.

• Ensure high availability, security, and integrity of hosts, virtual management applications, and associated resources.

• Monitor hypervisors, infrastructure, and virtualization applications, including alert configuration, error log monitoring, and automation of administrative tasks.

• Install host and virtualization infrastructure application patches and releases across development, test, pre-production, and production environments.

• Serve as a key resource for troubleshooting system problems on hosts, hypervisors, and virtual infrastructure.

• Create and maintain accurate system documentation for assigned systems, including tracking changes to virtualized infrastructure configurations.

• Assist in capacity planning, performance monitoring, and tuning for assigned virtualized systems.

• Participate in virtualization disaster recovery planning, supporting fault tolerance and recovery strategies.

• Analyze performance trends to optimize system and application performance across virtualized environments.

• Support the design, implementation, and sustainment of complex multi-cloud solutions, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS deployments.

• Develop custom scripts to automate administrative tasks and improve system efficiency.

• Apply expertise in network architecture, security, and routing, including virtual private clouds (VPCs), load balancers, and firewalls.

• Secret – IT-I (Tier 5/SSBI) Critical Sensitive Clearance

• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification

• DoD 8570 IAT Level II Baseline Certification:

  • COMPTIA Security+ CE
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
  • COMPTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+)
  • Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) Global Industriel Cyber Security Professional (GICSP)
• One of the Following Google Cloud Platform certifications:
  • Google Associate Cloud Engineer
  • Google Professional Cloud Architect
• One of the following AWS certifications:
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • AWS Certified Security – Specialty
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
  • AWS Certified Sys Ops Administrator
  • Microsoft Certified:
    Azure Administrator Associate
  • Microsoft Certified:
    Azure Solutions Architect Expert
  • Microsoft Certified:
    Azure Security Engineer Associate
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Operations
  • Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
  • Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)

• Minimum of seven (7) years of progressive experience managing and maintaining virtualized server environments and hosted applications.
• At least two (2) years of experience managing large-scale, multi-disciplinary projects involving virtualization, systems administration, and networking.
• Five (5) years hands‑on experience supporting Department of Defense (DoD) commercial cloud hosting solutions (desired).

• Expertise in implementing and sustaining complex multi‑cloud solutions (Google, AWS, Microsoft Azure, OCI).
• Strong knowledge of cloud deployment models, network architecture, security, and virtualized infrastructure.
• Proficient in authoring custom scripts to automate administrative tasks and improve system efficiency.

We are seeking a Virtual Platform Administrator to join our team.

Tek Synap is a fast growing high‑tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. “Technology moving at the speed of thought” embodies these principles – the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers.

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