Sr. Systems Engineer TO-706

Job Summary/Company: Our client is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to join their team in Washington DC. Their Enterprise Hosting Services team is at the forefront of secure, innovative hybrid infrastructure for one of the nation's most critical institutions. We're seeking a talented Platform Engineer to help architect, deploy, and manage our on-premises Virtual Cloud (VMware) platforms, our AWS Cloud platforms while supporting emerging AI capabilities, modern containerized workloads, and enterprise virtualization environments. This work requires 5 days a week onsite, and due to client requirements, only US Citizens can be considered for this role.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises data centers and AWS GovCloud, ensuring compliance with federal security standards
• Administer and optimize hyper-visor clusters (VMware vSphere, ESXi) for enterprise workloads
• Manage Kubernetes fleet operations across on-premises VMware vSphere with Kubernetes (VKS) and AWS EKS
• Lead application modernization initiatives, migrating and optimizing workloads across cloud and on-premises environments
• Implement comprehensive audit logging, monitoring, and observability solutions across hybrid environments

Qualifications/Background Profile:

• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in supporting enterprise-grade ESXi servers and VMware server software.
• Experience designing, planning, testing, implementing, supporting and troubleshooting large VMware installations
• Expert knowledge of ESXi server implementations and operations, VLAN, VMC, primary, secondary data center operations and hybrid cloud implementations
• Experience with Aria Automation, Aria Orchestrator and Aria Operations
• On-premises data center and AWS GovCloud experience

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This job is In-Person.

Pay Range: Hourly $70.00 to $82.00

We offer several comprehensive benefits package including health and life insurance, paid and unpaid time off, and retirement and savings plans to qualifying employees.

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Sparks Group is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, pregnancy, citizenship, family status, genetic information, disability, or protect veteran status.