Virtualization Administrator

Overview

Beyond New Horizons, LLC (BNH) has an exciting opportunity for a Virtualization Administrator supporting TOS II at Arnold Air Force Base, TN. The role is part of an integrated team responsible for the design, administration, sustainment, and maintenance of enterprise virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure supporting United States Air Force Test Operations and Sustainment efforts. The position is open to internal and external candidates and may require occasional work outside normal business hours for application upgrades.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize VMware virtual infrastructure and the Omnissa virtual desktop infrastructure environment, including vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, clusters, virtual machines, desktop pools, templates, user entitlements, and associated management components.
• Perform routine maintenance, patching, upgrades, capacity management, performance tuning, and lifecycle activities for virtualization, VDI, and supporting infrastructure; support additional virtual desktop or application‑delivery technologies as mission requirements evolve.
• Develop, maintain, test, and deploy golden images for virtual desktop and virtualized workloads; coordinate operating system updates, application updates, security patches, configuration changes, and release validation.
• Administer and support Veeam Backup & Replication (or equivalent) for virtual infrastructure and workloads; perform backup monitoring, restoration, retention management, recovery validation, and disaster‑recovery support activities.
• Coordinate with server, storage, network, cybersecurity, and application teams to configure and resolve issues involving virtualization‑related storage, networking, authentication, certificates, firewall rules, and guest operating systems; provide supporting administration for Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, and DHCP as required.
• Configure and maintain systems in accordance with Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), DoW security policies, approved configuration baselines, and access‑control requirements; support vulnerability remediation, patch compliance, and documentation in coordination with the Information System Security Manager (ISSM) and other stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain PowerShell, PowerCLI, or other approved automation scripts; monitor infrastructure health, availability, performance, and capacity; maintain standard operating procedures, technical documentation, configuration records, recovery procedures, and system diagrams.
• Provide technical support to AEDC customers, contractors, and end users; collaborate with integrated technical teams to implement service improvements; maintain availability outside normal business hours for planned maintenance or critical infrastructure issues; and perform other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an IT‑related field and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience (or 9 years of relevant IT experience in lieu of a degree).
• U.S. Citizenship required; ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense Secret‑level security clearance and access to the AEDC local area network.

U.S. Citizenship is required. BNH will not sponsor any applicants for employment authorization or immigration‑related support.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience administering VMware vSphere environments (vCenter Server, ESXi, vMotion, HA, DRS, Lifecycle Manager, templates, distributed virtual switching).
• Experience administering Omnissa Horizon or comparable production VDI environments (desktop pools, golden images, user entitlements, profile management, application delivery, performance troubleshooting).
• Experience with Veeam Backup & Replication or comparable enterprise backup and recovery tools.
• Experience supporting or administering Red Hat OpenShift environments.
• Experience supporting NetApp enterprise storage, networking, Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, PKI, and monitoring tools in a virtualized environment.
• Experience with STIG implementation, vulnerability remediation, security hardening, configuration compliance, PowerShell/PowerCLI automation, and disaster‑recovery planning or testing.
• Relevant certifications such as VMware Certified Professional—Data Center Virtualization or equivalent.
• Experience supporting high‑availability, mission‑critical, or geographically distributed infrastructure environments.

Pay

Grade L08: $95,000 – $131,200 per year.
Grade L09: $108,000 – $148,000 per year.
Salaries are specific to the Arnold Air Force Base, TN location.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Continuing education assistance
• Multiple healthcare benefits packages
• 401(k) with employer matching
• Paid time off (PTO) along with a federally recognized holiday schedule

About BNH

Beyond New Horizons (BNH) is a joint venture of Astrion and Fluor Federal Services, Inc., providing Test Operations and Sustainment services for the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC). AEDC operates more than 55 aerodynamic and propulsion wind tunnels, rocket and turbine engine test cells, space environmental chambers, arc heaters, ballistic ranges, and other specialized units across six states. BNH leverages the capabilities of its parent companies to deliver testing and evaluation for military and space systems, large‑scale government program management, integration, engineering, and construction services for high‑hazard facilities.