Senior Server/Cloud Engineer (Remote - Washington DC)
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VIATEQ is looking for a Senior Server/Cloud Engineer to support our Prime contractor and government customer in Washington, DC. The position is remote and requires the candidate to be able to obtain a Public Trust.
We are seeking a Senior Server / Cloud Engineer with a minimum of 8 years of experience to design, deploy, and support enterprise server and cloud infrastructure for a federal civilian customer undergoing active data center consolidation and cloud modernization. The ideal candidate has hands-on expertise in administering Windows Server and Linux environments at enterprise scale and leading migration of on-premises workloads to AWS, including GovCloud. Experience with VMware-based virtualization and infrastructure-as-code is strongly preferred.
The Senior Server / Cloud Engineer will be responsible for designing, deploying, and administering enterprise server and cloud infrastructure, leading migration of legacy on-premises workloads to AWS GovCloud, and supporting the customer's active data center consolidation initiative.
Responsibilities:
- Design, deploy, and administer Windows Server and Linux (RHEL/CentOS) systems supporting enterprise applications and services.
- Lead migration of legacy, on-premises data center workloads to AWS GovCloud as part of the customer's data center exit initiative, including four planned data center consolidations.
- Administer VMware vSphere/vCenter environments, including capacity planning, patching, and lifecycle management of virtual infrastructure.
- Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) and configuration management (e.g., Ansible) for repeatable, auditable deployments.
- Support Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, and identity/access management across hybrid environments.
- Partner with security engineering to remediate vulnerabilities, apply STIG/hardening baselines, and support continuous monitoring (ConMon) activities.
- Participate in the design and testing of business disaster continuity and recovery (BDCR) solutions for critical financial and mission systems.
- Produce and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and runbooks for supported systems.
- Provide Tier 3 escalation support and participate in an on-call rotation for production incidents.
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🇬🇧 English