Virtualization Administrator

Overview

Job Title: Virtualization Administrator

Location: Arnold AFB, TN

Job Family Code: T- Software & Systems Development

Function/Branch: Engineering / Infrastructure

Directorate: Engineering Tech & Support

Position Type: Regular, Full-Time                                        

Pay Type: Exempt

Grade: L08 (TA0813); L09 (TA0913)

Salary Range: L08: $95,000 - $131,200; L09: $108,000 -$148,000

Overview

Beyond New Horizons, LLC (BNH) has an exciting opportunity for a Virtualization Administrator supporting TOS II at Arnold Air Force Base, TN. As a Virtualization Administrator, you will work as a member of an integrated team responsible for the design, administration, sustainment, and maintenance of enterprise virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure supporting United States Air Force Test Operations and Sustainment efforts

Open to internal and external candidates. The selected candidate for this requisition may be required to occasionally (e.g. application upgrades) work outside normal business hours.

Job Summary

Beyond New Horizons, LLC (BNH) is the team selected by the U.S. Air Force to conduct Test and Operations Sustainment at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) at Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee.  AEDC operates more than 55 aerodynamic and propulsion wind tunnels, rocket and turbine engine test cells, space environmental chambers, arc heaters, ballistic ranges and other specialized units located in six states. Many of the complex's test units have capabilities unmatched elsewhere in the United States; some are unique in the world. AEDC is one of three installations which are part of the Air Force Test Center (AFTC), one of six subordinate commands of the Air Force Materiel Command organization, and an important national resource.

AEDC’s mission is to conduct developmental test and evaluation for the Nation through modeling, simulation, and ground and flight test.  Execution of the mission requires a large team of highly qualified and dedicated professionals from multiple technical disciplines to effectively accomplish the objectives of our test customers.

BNH currently has an exciting career opportunity available for Virtualization Administrator to join our team at Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee.

Job Duties:

• Virtualization and VDI Administration: Administer, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize VMware virtual infrastructure and the Omnissa virtual desktop infrastructure environment, including vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, clusters, virtual machines, desktop pools, templates, user entitlements, and associated management components.
• Platform Sustainment and Lifecycle Management: Perform routine maintenance, patching, upgrades, capacity management, performance tuning, and lifecycle activities for virtualization, VDI, and supporting infrastructure. Support additional virtual desktop or application-delivery technologies, as mission requirements evolve.
• Desktop Image and Application Management: Develop, maintain, test, and deploy golden images for virtual desktop and virtualized workloads. Coordinate operating system updates, application updates, security patches, configuration changes, and release validation.
• Backup, Recovery, and Continuity: Administer and support Veeam Backup & Replication or equivalent approved backup tools for virtual infrastructure and workloads. Perform backup monitoring, restoration, retention management, recovery validation, and disaster-recovery support activities.
• Infrastructure Integration and Troubleshooting: Coordinate with server, storage, network, cybersecurity, and application teams to configure and resolve issues involving virtualization-related storage, networking, authentication, certificates, firewall rules, and guest operating systems. Provide supporting administration for Windows Server, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, and DHCP as required to sustain virtual infrastructure and VDI services.
• Security and Compliance: Configure and maintain systems in accordance with applicable Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), DoW security policies, approved configuration baselines, and access-control requirements. Support vulnerability remediation, patch compliance, and documentation in coordination with the Information System Security Manager (ISSM) and other stakeholders.
• Automation, Monitoring, and Documentation: Develop and maintain PowerShell, PowerCLI, or other approved automation scripts; monitor infrastructure health, availability, performance, and capacity; and maintain standard operating procedures (SOP), technical documentation, configuration records, recovery procedures, and system diagrams.
• Customer and Operational Support: Provide technical support to AEDC customers, contractors, and end users; collaborate with integrated technical teams to implement service improvements; maintain availability outside normal business hours for planned maintenance or critical infrastructure issues as required; and perform other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related field and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
• In lieu of bachelor’s degree, 9 years of relevant IT experience may be substituted.
• Due to Air Force Security requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required for employment at AEDC.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense Secret level security clearance and access to the AEDC local area network.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience administering VMware vSphere environments, including vCenter Server, ESXi, vMotion, High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler, Lifecycle Manager, templates, and distributed virtual switching.
• Experience administering Omnissa Horizon or comparable production virtual desktop infrastructure environments, including desktop pools, golden images, user entitlements, profile management, application delivery, and performance troubleshooting.
• Experience administering Veeam Backup & Replication or comparable enterprise backup and recovery tools, including backup configuration, restores, replication, retention, recovery validation, and troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting or administering Red Hat OpenShift environments, including virtual infrastructure integration, cluster resource considerations, networking, storage, and platform troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting NetApp enterprise storage, networking, Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and monitoring tools in a virtualized environment.
• Experience with STIG implementation, vulnerability remediation, security hardening, configuration compliance, PowerShell/PowerCLI automation, and disaster-recovery planning or testing.
• Relevant VMware, Omnissa, Citrix, Microsoft, Veeam, or infrastructure certifications, such as VMware Certified Professional—Data Center Virtualization or equivalent.
• Experience supporting high-availability, mission-critical, or geographically distributed infrastructure environments.

What We Offer

• Competitive salaries
• Continuing education assistance
• Multiple healthcare benefits packages
• 401K with employer matching
• Paid time off (PTO) along with a federally recognized holiday schedule

Who We Are

Beyond New Horizons (BNH) is a fully populated joint venture of Astrion and Fluor Federal Services, Inc. formed to provide unmatched Test Operations and Sustainment services for the Arnold Engineering and Development Complex.

We chose our name to serve as an enduring reminder of our commitment to AEDC’s rich aerospace research and development legacy anchored in AEDC’s Towards New Horizons founding study and the unprecedented opportunities to greatly expand AEDC’s capabilities and capacity Beyond those existing today. Leveraging the capabilities of our parent companies, BNH specializes in testing and evaluation for military and space systems combined with proven capability in large-scale Government program management, integration, engineering, and construction services for specialized and technically advanced high-hazard facilities.

Join our Team!

U.S. Citizenship is required. At this time BNH will not sponsor any applicants for employment authorization or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1b, F1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, E-2, E-3, L-1, or other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer). 

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations and refers to the amount BNH is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time jobs will be adjusted based upon the number of hours agreed to work at location Tennessee: Arnold Air Force, TN. 

$95,000 - $131,200; L09: $108,000 -$148,000 / year at Arnold Air Force Base, TN. 

BNH is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.