Virtualization Engineer

Blackwatch International Corporation (Blackwatch), a small business founded in 2010, is dedicated to supporting Federal business and national security objectives. Based in McLean, VA, with offices in Sacramento, CA, Blackwatch invests in innovation and quality for our customers and staff, holding corporate-level ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 27001:2013, and ISO/IEC 20000-1:2018 and CMMI Level 3 certifications. We are a leading provider of information technology (IT) infrastructure, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, data exploitation, and engineering services, specializing in large and complex projects. Blackwatch is dedicated to growth and offers a dynamic working environment with multiple opportunities for advancement.

Position Title: Virtualization Engineer

Position Location: Remote

Position Type: Full time

Years of experience: 3-5 years of hands-on experience

Security Clearance: Must be able to obtain a Public Trust

US Citizenship Required: Yes, and must possess a Real ID or Passport

Summary/Objective

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). In order to successfully migrate workloads to Azure via AVS, the Virtualization Engineer will work with a team to assess the current physical and virtual server infrastructure (in terms of interdependencies and service provision) and right sized (in terms of memory, CPU, and storage), and plan, schedule, and execute the migration to Azure to minimize impact to workloads and the application services provided by those workloads.

Responsibilities :

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. This team will be a part of an integrated project team (IPT) that includes federal staff, colleagues, and other contract teams that specialize in networking, security, and Cloud Service Provider (CSP) management. The Virtualization Engineer will implement network extensions and service meshes using AVS and VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX) and migrate workloads to Azure via vMotion. Concurrently, the Virtualization Engineer will plan and execute quality control and quality assurances processes to validate that fundamental infrastructure capabilities such as identity management, service communications, and server management (patching, monitoring, etc.) are fully functional during and after migrations. The Virtualization Engineer will participate in the IPT to identify constraints, recommendations, and required activities across all support teams to ensure risks are mitigated and issues are avoided. The Virtualization Engineer must have experience planning and executing Physical to Virtual (P2V) server migrations (in preparation for migration via AVS) as well as VM rightsizing assessments and execution.