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Virtual Platform Administrator

Nationwide IT Services
vision insurance, paid holidays, 401(k)
United States, Virginia, Fairfax
4025 Fair Ridge Drive (Show on map)
Nov 07, 2025
Virtual Platform Administrator Security Clearance: IT-I - Critical Sensitive (Tier 5/SSBI)/ High Risk Clearance: SECRET IA Level: IAT II Job Location: Remote Be available to support meetings at DLA Columbus, OH, and Fort Belvoir, VA Overview: Nationwide IT Services, NIS, is seeking a Virtual Platform Administrator for a potential opportunity to manage and maintain virtualized infrastructure for on-premises data centers, DoD, and commercial cloud-based offerings for private, public, and hybrid clouds. Performs host, hypervisor, and virtual application software implementations and upgrades for on-premises hypervisors and supporting hardware, software, and applications. Job Location: Remote Key Responsibilities: Performs corresponding cloud-based infrastructure support for virtual machines, virtual appliances, software, programs, applications, and all applicable virtualized infrastructure components. Ensures high availability, security, and integrity of hosts and virtual management applications and resources. Monitors hypervisor, infrastructure, and virtualization applications, including setting alerts to maintain the stability of the environment and application, monitoring error logs, and automating administration tasks wherever possible. Installs host and virtualization infrastructure application patches and releases on development, test, pre-production, and production systems. Serves as a key person in troubleshooting system problems on hosts, hypervisors, and virtual infrastructure. Creates and maintains accurate system documentation for assigned systems. Maintains current descriptions and documentation of virtualized infrastructure application and system configurations, including tracking and documenting any changes to environments. Assists in capacity planning, performance monitoring, and tuning on assigned virtualized systems. Participates in virtualization disaster recovery planning, including assisting with fault tolerance and disaster recovery plans. Analyzes performance trends to optimize virtualized systems and application performance. Required Qualifications (Must-Haves): Seven (7) years of progressive experience in the management and maintenance of virtualized server environments and hosted applications. At least two years of qualifying experience must include managing successful large-scale, multi-disciplinary (network, virtualization, systems administration) projects involving virtual servers. Five (5) years of hands-on experience working with and supporting Department of Defense (DoD) Commercial Cloud Hosting solutions. Security/Certification Requirements: Sensitivity Level: IT-I - Critical Sensitive (Tier 5/SSBI)/ High Risk Clearance: SECRET IA Level: IAT II 8570.01-M Baseline Certification: One of the following Google Cloud Platform: Google Associate Cloud Engineer, Google Professional Cloud Architect Plus one of the following: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner AWS Certified Security - Specialty AWS Certified Solutions Architect AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified Azure Security Engineer Associate, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Operations Red Hat Certified Engineer Red Hat Certified System Administrator Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification. Required Experience: Performing the Following tasks/Responsibilities: Well-versed in implementing and sustaining complex multicloud solutions Experience supporting and administering commercial cloud provider hosting solutions in addition to Google (i.e., Microsoft Azure, AWS, OCI) and associated relevant industry certifications. Highly knowledgeable and skilled in architecting, implementing, and sustaining various cloud deployment solutions and offerings (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) Strong understanding of network architecture, security, and routing, including virtual private clouds (VPC), load balancers, and firewalls. Experience authoring custom scripts to automate administrative tasks and increase system efficiency. About Nationwide IT Services NIS is an IT and Management consulting company and is a CVE-verified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business. Our mission is to deliver value-added services to our customers, leveraging technology, people, and industry best practices to implement innovative solutions through our trusted employees and team members. Our benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, 401(k) plan with employer match, paid holidays, PTO (sick/vacation), commuter benefits, employee assistance program (EAP), and educational reimbursement, along with Pet Insurance. Nationwide IT Services, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics, disability, or protected veteran status.