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Systems Administrator - Future Operations

Agile Defense· Digital Transformation – Service Operations
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Fort Huachuca, AZ$70k - $74kRegularPosted 2w ago

About the role

Systems Administrator responsible for operation, maintenance, and modernization of virtualization and related infrastructure in a LAB/FUOPs environment, with emphasis on VMware virtualization, FlexPod, and integrated compute/storage/networking.

Responsibilities

  • Deploy, configure, administer, and maintain VMware ESXi 7 and 8 hosts, vSphere/vCenter 8, clusters, and virtual machines.
  • Manage virtual infrastructure components (templates, resource pools, datastores, standard and distributed virtual switches, content libraries).
  • Support VMware capabilities (vMotion, Storage vMotion, High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler, host profiles, RBAC).
  • Perform system patching, upgrades, certificate maintenance, lifecycle management for ESXi/vCenter and related components.
  • Monitor and optimize virtual infrastructure performance, capacity, resource utilization, availability, and stability.
  • Troubleshoot complex issues involving VMs, hypervisors, virtual networking, storage connectivity, physical servers, and supporting infrastructure.
  • Plan and support workload migrations, technology refreshes, and transitions between test, lab, and operational environments.
  • Apply platform-independent virtualization concepts to support evaluation/adoption of alternate hypervisors, private-cloud, or container-based solutions.
  • Support FlexPod infrastructure (Cisco UCS compute, networking, NetApp ONTAP, VMware) and perform UCS administration.
  • Assist with physical server provisioning, firmware updates, health monitoring, fault isolation.
  • Troubleshoot NetApp ONTAP, storage concepts (VMs, aggregates, volumes, LUNs, NFS datastores, snapshots, multipathing, capacity monitoring).
  • Coordinate infrastructure changes with compute, storage, network, security, and application teams.
  • Provide foundational-to-intermediate Layer 2/3 network support, configure Cisco Nexus 9000-series switches, VLANs, ports, Spanning Tree, MTU, NIC teaming, and virtual-switch uplinks.
  • Diagnose connectivity, packet loss, latency, VLAN, routing, DNS, MTU, and physical-link issues in virtualized systems.
  • Collaborate with network engineering teams for complex changes or incidents.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s in computer science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or Software Engineering
  • 0 years of experience with BS/BA; 2 years with AA/AS; 4 years with no degree
  • DoW 8140 Compliance – CompTIA Security+ or Cloud+, GICSP, GSEC, Systems Security Certified Practitioner
  • Active Secret US security clearance

Skills

Required:VMware ESXivSphere/vCenterVMware featuresFlexPod/NetApp ONTAPNetworkingLinux
Nice to have:Cisco UCSNetApp ONTAP

Benefits

  • Not specified in the job description
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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