System Administrator (VMWare/SAN)

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Minimum Secret clearance (must be TS eligible based on investigation type T5.)

Skills

• Enterprise Storage Administration and/or hyper-converged stack experience (e.g. Dell Compellent, HP 3PAR, NetApp FlexPod, 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 NetBackup, Commvault or similar).
• Enterprise System Administration experience on Microsoft Windows Server