VMWare System Administrator SME - (Clearance Required) - Triaplex, Inc.

Triaplex, Inc. is looking for a VMWare Systems Administrator with a strong background in vSphere Administration, Linux and Windows Systems Administration  to join our team. This position will support a mission-focused customer in a fast paced environment. The ideal candidate will be able to hit the ground running installing, maintaining, and patching VMs running in multiple disparate environments and with both Linux and Windows Operating Systems.

Key Responsibilities

• VMware vSphere (vCenter and ESXi) experience support multi-site environments
• VMware Horizon VDI experience supporting a geographically disperse enterprise with a mix of persistent and instant clone desktops
• Creating Microsoft Windows golden images
• HP thin clients and HP Device Manager (HPDM)
• VMware App Volume experience to include application capturing and trouble shooting
• VMware Unified Access Gateway
• Capacity planning for geographically distributed enterprise level systems
• Converting customer requirements into a technical plan
• Full life cycle of system development
• Working with PKI certificates and keys
• Understanding features and administrative responsibilities for maintaining the health, scalability, manageability, and security for the Atlassian applications and plugins using Data Center
• Gather and translate business requirements into Jira projects and dashboards
• Agile software development processes
• Use Linux for application upgrades and troubleshoot service disruptions
• Use JavaScript to enhance automation of Jira projects
• General troubleshooting skills in Linux, and Puppet

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university
• Proven SME level expertise with VMs, vSphere, and hypervisors
• TS/SCI with polygraph

Desired Skillsets

• Basic understanding of network communications
• Basic understanding of enterprise storage technology, specifically Network Attached Storage (NAS) via Network File System (NFS)
• Maintaining a VMware or Hyper-V infrastructure
• Basic understanding of Linux commands
• Basic understanding of Microsoft Active Directory and Group Policy Objects (GPO)
• VMware PowerCLI using Microsoft PowerShell
• Understanding basics of project management to include understanding resource planning for technical projects
• Creating end user, admin, and system documentation
• One or more of the following Certifications:
  • Atlassian Certification
  • Microsoft Certifications
  • Cisco Network Certifications
  • Linux Certifications
  • VMware Certifications
  • ITIL certifications
  • Cloudera Certified Administrator
  • Jira Administration for Data Center & Server (SCP-100)
  • Jira Essentials with Agile Mindset
  • Confluence Administration Data Center