{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"3238ce9ba6c7bec2c1246256","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/3238ce9ba6c7bec2c1246256","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/3238ce9ba6c7bec2c1246256","title":"Virtualization Engineer","description":"Type of Requisition:\r\nPipeline\r\nClearance Level Must Currently Possess:\r\nTop Secret\r\nClearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:\r\nTop Secret\r\nPublic Trust/Other Required:\r\nNone\r\nJob Family:\r\nIT Infrastructure and Operations\r\nJob Qualifications:\r\nSkills:\r\nData Center Virtualization, Hybrid Cloud Solutions, Linux Virtualization, Microsoft and VMWare Virtualization Certifications:\r\nNone Experience:\r\n8 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required:\r\nYes\r\nJob Description:Virtualization Engineer\r\nGDIT is seeking a Virtualization Architect for the Federal Civilian Division to join our outstanding team! You will support a large-scale, global Data Center and Cloud Services contract supporting the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Diplomatic Technology (DT). You will architect, design, and optimize virtual infrastructure platforms across enterprise hybrid environments, ensuring mission uptime, scalability, performance, and security. Responsibilities include advanced architecture development, engineering governance, modernization planning, lifecycle management, automation, monitoring, and integration activities across domestic and international DT managed sites.\r\nHOW A VIRTUALIZATION ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACTArchitecture & Engineering Leadership:Architect and validate enterprise virtualization solutions across VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter/vSAN, Microsoft Hyper‑V/SCVMM, Windows Failover Clustering, Azure Stack HCI, and Linux/KVM-based platforms.\r\nDevelop virtualization roadmaps and modernization strategies that incorporate cross-platform migrations, interoperability, and workload placement optimization.\r\nCreate HLD/LLD designs spanning compute, storage, network, and cloud integrations for multi‑hypervisor environments.\r\nProvide architectural oversight for enterprise environments supporting more than 1,500 virtual machines across VMware, Hyper‑V, and KVM clusters.\r\nEvaluate and implement virtualization technology enhancements including Azure HCI, VMware Cloud on AWS, and container‑native virtualization (KubeVirt/OpenShift Virtualization) when appropriate.\r\nOperations Architecture & Service Delivery:Support 24x7x365 operations across virtualization platforms, ensuring consistency in configuration baselines, patching, lifecycle management, and performance tuning.\r\nGuide engineering teams in troubleshooting and operationalizing complex virtualization environments involving VMware, Hyper‑V, and Linux/KVM systems.\r\nLead hypervisor migration initiatives, cluster consolidations, and cross‑platform workload transitions.\r\nMonitoring, Observability & Reporting:Integrate platform monitoring tools (vROps, SCVMM, Prometheus, hyperscaler monitoring tools) into DT observability frameworks.\r\nProvide capacity planning and forecasting across all virtualization stacks, including hybrid cloud compute footprints.\r\nSecurity, Compliance & Risk Management:Ensure virtualization architectures align with DT security policy, FedRAMP, NIST RMF, STIGs, Zero Trust principles, and platform‑specific security models.\r\nImplement RBAC, segmentation, encryption, secure boot, and compliance controls across VMware, Hyper‑V, and KVM systems.\r\nFinancial, Capacity & Resource Stewardship:Support capacity planning, utilization modeling, and forecasting for DT's multi‑site virtualization footprint.\r\nProvide architectural recommendations for modernization investments, hardware refresh cycles, and licensing requirements.\r\nContribute to resource optimization, VM rightsizing, and engineering decisions aligned with sustainability goals.\r\nStakeholder Engagement & Collaboration:Collaborate with DT service providers, engineering teams, cyber stakeholders, and operations staff to standardize virtualization practices.\r\nProduce engineering documentation, diagrams, SOPs, runbooks, and knowledge‑transfer materials.\r\nLead engineering pilots, platform evaluations, and introduction of new virtualization technologies.\r\nWHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEEDBring your initiative and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Virtualization Engineer must have:\r\nEducation: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline required (master's preferred).\r\nExperience: 8+ years supporting enterprise virtualization or data center engineering environments. At least 3 years supporting environments with more than 1,500 virtual machines in production.\r\nCertifications: VMware Certified Implementation Expert 6 - Data Center Virtualization (VCIX‑DCV), or Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate, or Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Red Hat Certified Specialist in Virtualization (EX318), or AWS Solutions Architect - Associate/Professional.\r\nTechnical skills: VMware stack: vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, PowerCLI; Microsoft stack: Hyper‑V, SCVMM, Failover Clustering, Azure Stack HCI; Linux virtualization: KVM/qemu, oVirt, RHV; Hybrid cloud virtualization: AWS, Azure, GCP compute virtualization; Container‑adjacent virtua#J-18808-Ljbffr","company":"General Dynamics It","rawCompany":"general dynamics it","city":"Washington","state":"DC","isRemote":false,"isActive":true,"createdAt":"2026-11-13T01:37:32.404Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1244.00","title":"Network and Computer Systems Administrators","slug":"network-and-computer-systems-administrators"},{"code":"15-1241.00","title":"Computer Network Architects","slug":"computer-network-architects"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"518210","title":"Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services","slug":"computing-infrastructure-providers-data-processing-web-hosting-and-related-services"},{"code":"541330","title":"Engineering Services","slug":"engineering-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Virtualization Engineer","description":"Type of Requisition:\r\nPipeline\r\nClearance Level Must Currently Possess:\r\nTop Secret\r\nClearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:\r\nTop Secret\r\nPublic Trust/Other Required:\r\nNone\r\nJob Family:\r\nIT Infrastructure and Operations\r\nJob Qualifications:\r\nSkills:\r\nData Center Virtualization, Hybrid Cloud Solutions, Linux Virtualization, Microsoft and VMWare Virtualization Certifications:\r\nNone Experience:\r\n8 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required:\r\nYes\r\nJob Description:Virtualization Engineer\r\nGDIT is seeking a Virtualization Architect for the Federal Civilian Division to join our outstanding team! You will support a large-scale, global Data Center and Cloud Services contract supporting the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Diplomatic Technology (DT). You will architect, design, and optimize virtual infrastructure platforms across enterprise hybrid environments, ensuring mission uptime, scalability, performance, and security. 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The Virtualization Engineer must have:\r\nEducation: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline required (master's preferred).\r\nExperience: 8+ years supporting enterprise virtualization or data center engineering environments. 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