Sr. Systems Engineer

Title: Sr. Systems Engineer
Location: Washington DC- Local DMV Only


Position Requirements:
Join our Enterprise Hosting Services team at the forefront of secure, innovative hybrid infrastructure for one of the nation's most critical institutions. We're seeking a talented Platform Engineer to help architect, deploy, and manage our on-premises Virtual Cloud (VMware) platforms, our AWS Cloud platforms while supporting emerging AI capabilities, modern containerized workloads, and enterprise virtualization environments.
What You'll Do
• Design, implement, and maintain hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises data centers and AWS GovCloud, ensuring compliance with federal security standards

• dminister and optimize hyper-visor clusters (VMware vSphere, ESXi) for enterprise workloads
• Manage Kubernetes fleet operations across on-premises VMware vSphere with Kubernetes (VKS) and AWS EKS
• Lead application modernization initiatives, migrating and optimizing workloads across cloud and on-premises environments
• Implement comprehensive audit logging, monitoring, and observability solutions across hybrid environments
• Support security engineering initiatives including vulnerability management, compliance automation, and security hardening
• Support emerging AI/ML capabilities and cloud-native solutions
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and GitLab CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in an agile environment using Jira for project management
• Ensure systems meet NIST 800-53 and FISMA compliance requirements
• utomate operational tasks and improve platform reliability across both cloud and on-premises infrastructure
• Contribute to architectural decisions and hybrid cloud strategy

Preferred Qualifications
• Minimum of 7 years' experience in supporting enterprise-grade ESXi servers and VMware server software.

• Experience designing, planning, testing, implementing, supporting and troubleshooting large VMware installations
• Expert knowledge of ESXi server implementations and operations, VLAN, VMC, primary, secondary data center operations and hybrid cloud implementations
• Experience with Aria Automation, Aria Orchestrator and Aria Operations
• Experience with Powershell/Powercli scripting
• On-premises data center and AWS GovCloud experience
• Kubernetes fleet management experience (VKS, EKS, Mirantis)
• VMware vSphere administration and cluster management
• Knowledge of NIST 800-53 controls and FISMA compliance frameworks
• Experience with security engineering, audit logging, and monitoring tools
• pplication modernization and containerization experience
• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure and services
• GitLab and Jira experience
• VMware or Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD)
• Experience in financial services,
• Federal government environments