Virtual Platform Administrator

Responsibilities & Qualifications

We are seeking a Virtual Platform Administrator to join our team supporting Cloud and Infrastructure Services at Defense Logistics Agency (DLA).
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience

- 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).

Certifications

- 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 SysOps 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)

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

Desired Experience and Skills

- 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.

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