About the role

  • Virtualization Systems Engineer providing technical leadership for enterprise virtualization infrastructure at GDIT. Overseeing operations and ensuring compliance across classified and unclassified environments.

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership for enterprise virtualization infrastructure
  • Design, implement, and maintain highly available, secure virtualization platforms
  • Develop long-term modernization roadmaps
  • Lead architectural reviews and ensure alignment with DoD reference architectures
  • Oversee capacity planning, performance optimization, and lifecycle refresh strategies
  • Lead administration of enterprise virtualization environments
  • Architect and manage virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions
  • Review and approve configuration changes, patching strategies, and upgrades
  • Lead root cause analysis for critical outages or performance degradation
  • Ensure compliance with DoD cybersecurity policies
  • Support ATO processes and audit readiness activities
  • Implement secure configuration baselines and hardening procedures
  • Oversee day-to-day virtualization operations
  • Implement backup, disaster recovery, and continuity of operations (COOP) capabilities
  • Develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) and technical documentation

Requirements

  • Active Top Secret clearance (SCI eligibility strongly preferred)
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred)
  • 15+ years of progressive experience in systems engineering or virtualization
  • Deep expertise in VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter
  • VDI solutions (Horizon or equivalent)
  • Storage integration (SAN/NAS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel)
  • Virtual networking (vSwitches, distributed switches, NSX preferred)
  • High availability (HA), DRS, clustering, and failover architectures
  • Experience supporting classified DoD environments.
  • Strong understanding of RMF and ATO processes
  • DISA STIGs
  • Zero Trust principles
  • Backup and disaster recovery solutions

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
  • 401K with company match
  • Flexible work weeks where possible
  • Vacation, sick and personal time
  • Holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
  • Short and long-term disability benefits
  • Life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance
  • Personal accident, critical illness and business travel accident insurance

Job title

Virtualization Systems Engineer – SME

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

$147,292 - $199,278 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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