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Role Description

Blackwatch International is seeking a Virtualization Engineer to support a federal agency with several data centers containing physical and virtual servers with its journey to the cloud. This customer will migrate applications which have been refactored to leverage cloud-native services to AWS, while those legacy applications which have not been rearchitected will migrate to Azure using the Azure VMware Solution (AVS).

• Assess the current physical and virtual server infrastructure (in terms of interdependencies and service provision)
• Right size (in terms of memory, CPU, and storage)
• Plan, schedule, and execute the migration to Azure to minimize impact to workloads and application services

The Virtualization Engineer will work as a valued member of a small technical team to plan, migrate, and validate the workloads migrated to Azure via AVS.

• Implement network extensions and service meshes using AVS and VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX)
• Migrate workloads to Azure via vMotion
• Plan and execute quality control and quality assurance processes to validate fundamental infrastructure capabilities
• Participate in the IPT to identify constraints, recommendations, and required activities across all support teams
• Ensure risks are mitigated and issues are avoided

The Virtualization Engineer must have experience planning and executing Physical to Virtual (P2V) server migrations as well as VM rightsizing assessments and execution.

It is expected that the successful candidate is able to quickly integrate and assimilate into this IPT, coming up to speed rapidly, proactively building productive relationships, and prioritizing work to meet objectives in a fast-paced, fluid environment.

• Self-initiative should complement teamwork
• Ability to succinctly report accomplishments, specify and estimate critical next steps, and identify impediments/risks within deadlines

Qualifications

• Must have a degree in Information Technology-related discipline
• Must have one or more active VMware certifications in data center virtualization, network virtualization, and/or Cloud Management and Automation
• Must have 3 to 5 years of hands-on VMware engineering and administration experience
• Must have experience performing P2V server migrations, as well as resource utilization assessments and right sizing
• Must have exceptional written and verbal communication skills

Requirements

• One or more MS Azure certifications (Azure Administrator, Solutions Architect, Network Engineer) - desired but not required
• Experience with Microsoft Azure and fundamental understanding of Azure cloud native services - desired but not required
• Experience and comfort with Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS - current on-prem hardware platform) - desired but not required
• Ability to assimilate into an existing team - desired but not required
• Self-initiating and self-organizing - desired but not required