Senior VMware Administrator supporting The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). NCIS is an organization of over 2,200 personnel of which 700 serve at HQ and the remaining staff serve at offices worldwide. NCIS is the Department of Navy (DON) component with primary responsibility for criminal investigation, law enforcement (LE), counterterrorism (CT), counterintelligence (CI), and cyber matters. NCIS not only has primary responsibility for all criminal investigative, CI, CT, and cyber matters within the DON, but it also has exclusive investigative jurisdiction in non-combat matters involving actual, potential, or suspected criminal, terrorism, sabotage, espionage, and subversive activities. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. How a Senior VMware Administrator will Make an Impact:
• Administration for customers’ virtualization requirements
• Daily support, maintenance, and design services for VMware virtualization across four separate enterprise domains
• Daily interaction with network and storage administrators to ensure full operability of virtualization services
• Plans and implements system security patches as well as upgrades as required
• Windows Domain enterprise support as it relates to VMware operations as well as supporting the customer with vulnerability management, outage, and troubleshooting
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
Education:
• BS degree; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• Security
Required Experience:
• 5 years of in-depth knowledge/experience of VMware virtualization with a minimum level of ESXi 5.5 up to 7.x in both stand alone and VCenter environments to include:
o VCenter operations
o vMotion
o Host and Datastore Clustering
o Cisco UCS/Hyperflex familiarity a huge plus
o VCenter HA and DRS
o Guest VM resource utilization and management
Required Technical Skills:
• Operations and maintenance of AD and Group Policies
• DNS, DHCP
• Understanding of monitoring best practices
Security Clearance Level:
• Top Secret; must be able to obtain TS/SCI
Required Skills and Abilities:
• Infrastructure and server theories, principles and concepts; application infrastructure and standards, to include networking fundamentals, Windows, Physical Server architecture, and LAN/WAN/Firewall/VPN network technologies
• Development, documentation, and enforcement of standards, security procedures, and controls for access to ensure integrity of Windows systems, AD, and related systems
• Implementation and maintenance services and communications with AD recovery locations
Preferred Skills:
• VMWare Virtual Certified Professional VCP Location: • Hybrid Citizenship Required:
• US Citizenship
Frequently Asked Vendor Questions:
• What is the mission of the program/ contract? NCIS not only has primary responsibility for all criminal investigative, CI, CT, and cyber matters within the DON, but it also has exclusive investigative jurisdiction in non-combat matters involving actual, potential, or suspected criminal, terrorism, sabotage, espionage, and subversive activities
• What will a typical workday look like for the Contractor? 8-hour shift
• Is this a team setting? Team setting
• What are the top three skillsets the candidate should have? Cisco HyperFlex Architecture, VMware ESXi, VMware vCenter
• What is the interview process? Schedule via teams or provide conference line phone #
• How many interviews until decision is made? One. Audio only or audio/video or in-person? Audio.
• What government agency/customer does the contract support? DOD/ NCIS NAVY
• What is the length of the contract? 5 Years. What Option Year is it currently in? OY2. When is re-compete? Late 2025.
• What is the Hybrid schedule? 3 days onsite/2 days remote