Senior Virtualization Engineer

Senior Virtualization Engineer

Huntsville, AL / Redstone Arsenal

IPT's Technology Solutions Team is passionate about providing our customers with technical solutions that satisfy their business needs. Through collaborative interactions with customers, team members, subject matter experts (SMEs), technical leaders, and partners we design practical solutions that solve real problems for major government and business organizations. As a member of our Technology Solutions group, you will work with a team of technologists focused on delivering innovative business solutions using emerging technologies through proven successful methods.

Our Team :

We are looking for talented people who are enthusiastic about applying technology to deliver innovative outcomes with "fierce determination, fearless integrity, and passionate service." Our belief is that our people are the key to success. By encouraging and enabling continued learning, our team members grow to achieve their personal career goals. We are looking for :

Smart people with a passion for technology

Ability to solve challenging business problems

Self-directed professionals

Hunger to continually learn and grow

IPT is looking for great talented people to support the work at the Army Aviation and Missile Center (AvMC). AvMC is the Army's focal point for providing research, development and engineering technology and services for aviation and missile platforms across the life cycle. AvMC's mission is to "deliver collaborative and innovative aviation and missile capabilities for responsive and cost-effective research, development, and lifecycle engineering solutions" to equip the Warfighter with the best technology today and tomorrow.

Responsibilities :

• Perform daily operations tasks across storage, network and computer systems to verify system integrity and availability
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware / hypervisor / infrastructure upgrades and resource optimization
• Implement monitoring for virtual infrastructure and servers, and respond to alarms in a timely manner, preventing client impact and performance degradation
• Install, configure and manage VMware virtualization environment components
• Ensure virtualization systems are compliant within required security standards
• Develop and maintain O&S Standard Operating Procedures for VMware desktop virtualization environment
• Develop and implement testing strategies and document results
• Diagnoses and troubleshoot problems with the virtualization environment including Microsoft and Linux O / S
• Establish and sustain virtual infrastructure; migrate selected mission applications from legacy environments to the latest virtual hardware / software platforms; and establish new mission applications into virtual hardware / software platforms
• Compile and execute ready object code for the software on Government specified computers and operating systems
• Configure Virtual Machine (VM) servers, create virtual desktops, and create VM views
• Optimize VM components, and reduce lag time
• Implement, support and sustain a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
• Support activities including baseline management, zero client and thin client management, virtual application management, server management, user management, hardware management, and scalable deployment

Requirements :

IPT Associates, LLC is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, status as a veteran or disabled veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. We base all employment decisions, including recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotions, transfers, lay-offs, returns from lay-off, terminations, and social and recreational programs on the principles of equal employment opportunity.

Our employees have diverse backgrounds, skills, and ideas that collectively contribute to a rich working environment and greater opportunity for innovation.

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