NASIC Principal VMWare Systems Engineer (AHT)

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal VMWare Systems Engineer to maintain and enhance Linux Systems and Infrastructure in support of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, OH. NASIC is responsible for creating all-source intelligence defining the present and future air, air defense, cyber, space and ballistic missile threats to enable military operations, force modernization, and policy making. Successful candidates will clearly demonstrate strong technical skills with the use of VMWare tools. They should have a track record as an effective communicator and problem solver who is able to develop and maintain good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Summary of Responsibility

Job duties consist of managing NASIC’s VMWare environment, including storage and network management, installing new VMware software, monitoring performance, developing more effective techniques, and troubleshooting problems. You will be an active part of a team of System, Network, and Storage Administrators who collaborate to support a large development infrastructure that replicates a wide variety of customer environments to include Linux and Windows. The team manages the hardware, software, network, security, and end user support for a wide range of tools and infrastructure.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Math discipline with 5 years' related experience OR master’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Math discipline with 3 years' related experience
• U.S. citizenship with active TS/SCI security clearance
• Minimum of 2 years of administration experience with VMWare ESXi 7.x or higher.
• Active CompTIA Security+, CASP, or CISSP certification

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience administrating Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8, and/or 9 (or equivalent)
• Current Operating System Environment Certification i.e., (Linux+, RHCSA, Net+, CCNA, VMware Certified, etc.) preferably VMware Certified
• Experience with hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) technologies such as Dell VxRail
• Experience with VMware vRealize infrastructure (vRA/vRO)
• Experience with software defined storage (NSX-V/T)
• Experience with VMware vCenter
• Scripting experience with Bash, PowerShell and/or Python
• Experience with Ansible and Terraform
• Broad knowledge of systems administrations to include multiple technologies i.e., (Windows, Linux, Cisco, VMware, storage area network (SAN), and network attached storage

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