Type of Requisition:
Pipeline
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret
Public Trust/Other Required:
None
Job Family:
IT Infrastructure and Operations
Job Qualifications:
Skills:
Data Center Virtualization, Hybrid Cloud Solutions, Linux Virtualization, Microsoft and VMWare VirtualizationCertifications:
NoneExperience:
8 + years of related experienceUS Citizenship Required:
Yes
Job Description:
Virtualization Engineer GDIT is seeking a Virtualization Architect for the Federal Civilian Division to join our outstanding team! You will support a large-scale, global Data Center and Cloud Services contract supporting the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Technology (DT). You will architect, design, and optimize virtual infrastructure platforms across enterprise hybrid environments, ensuring mission uptime, scalability, performance, and security. Responsibilities include advanced architecture development, engineering governance, modernization planning, lifecycle management, automation, monitoring, and integration activities across domestic and international DT managed sites.
HOW A VIRTUALIZATION ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
Architecture & Engineering Leadership:
- Architect and validate enterprise virtualization solutions across VMware vSphere/ESXi/vCenter/vSAN, Microsoft Hyper‑V/SCVMM, Windows Failover Clustering, Azure Stack HCI, and Linux/KVM-based platforms.
- Develop virtualization roadmaps and modernization strategies that incorporate cross-platform migrations, interoperability, and workload placement optimization.
- Create HLD/LLD designs spanning compute, storage, network, and cloud integrations for multi‑hypervisor environments.
- Provide architectural oversight for enterprise environments supporting more than 1,500 virtual machines across VMware, Hyper‑V, and KVM clusters.
- Evaluate and implement virtualization technology enhancements including Azure HCI, VMware Cloud on AWS, and container‑native virtualization (KubeVirt/OpenShift Virtualization) when appropriate.
Operations Architecture & Service Delivery:
- Support 24x7x365 operations across virtualization platforms, ensuring consistency in configuration baselines, patching, lifecycle management, and performance tuning.
- Guide engineering teams in troubleshooting and operationalizing complex virtualization environments involving VMware, Hyper‑V, and Linux/KVM systems.
- Lead hypervisor migration initiatives, cluster consolidations, and cross‑platform workload transitions.
Monitoring, Observability & Reporting:
- Integrate platform monitoring tools (vROps, SCVMM, Prometheus, hyperscaler monitoring tools) into DT observability frameworks.
- Provide capacity planning and forecasting across all virtualization stacks, including hybrid cloud compute footprints.
Security, Compliance & Risk Management:
- Ensure virtualization architectures align with DT security policy, FedRAMP, NIST RMF, STIGs, Zero Trust principles, and platform-specific security models.
- Implement RBAC, segmentation, encryption, secure boot, and compliance controls across VMware, Hyper‑V, and KVM systems.
Financial, Capacity & Resource Stewardship:
- Support capacity planning, utilization modeling, and forecasting for DT’s multi-site virtualization footprint.
- Provide architectural recommendations for modernization investments, hardware refresh cycles, and licensing requirements.
- Contribute to resource optimization, VM rightsizing, and engineering decisions aligned with sustainability goals.
Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration:
- Collaborate with DT service providers, engineering teams, cyber stakeholders, and operations staff to standardize virtualization practices.
- Produce engineering documentation, diagrams, SOPs, runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials.
- Lead engineering pilots, platform evaluations, and introduction of new virtualization technologies.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your initiative and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Virtualization Engineer must have:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline required (master’s preferred).
- Experience: 8+ years supporting enterprise virtualization or data center engineering environments. At least 3 years supporting environments with more than 1,500 virtual machines in production.
- Certifications: VMware Certified Implementation Expert 6 – Data Center Virtualization (VCIX‑DCV), or Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate, or Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Red Hat Certified Specialist in Virtualization (EX318), or AWS Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional.
- Technical skills: VMware stack: vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, PowerCLI; Microsoft stack: Hyper‑V, SCVMM, Failover Clustering, Azure Stack HCI; Linux virtualization: KVM/qemu, oVirt, RHV; Hybrid cloud virtualization: AWS, Azure, GCP compute virtualization; Container-adjacent virtualization: Tanzu, OpenShift Virtualization, KubeVirt (optional).
- Security clearance level: Active Top Secret level clearance
- Location: Hybrid within the National Capital Region with periodic travel to customer and data center sites.
- Timeline: This is a contingent position, expected to start in Spring of 2027.
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE
At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
- Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
- Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
- Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
- Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
- Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY
Explore a career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your sense of ownership and pride in the meaningful work we do.
The likely salary range for this position is $162,037 - $219,227. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Travel Required:
Less than 10%
Telecommuting Options:
Hybrid
Work Location:
USA DC Washington
Additional Work Locations:
USA VA Newington, USA VA Springfield
Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
About Our Work:
We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
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