**Introduction** A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience. **Your role and responsibilities** This position will work with the existing Virtualization team to manage, maintain, deploy, troubleshoot and support the physical and virtual servers for numerous customer environments. This position will assist with implementing new system hardware and software, and provide input for developing local operating procedures and policies as needed. This position will need to be adept at monitoring the environment and reacting to time critical situations. This Job can be performed from anywhere in the US **Required technical and professional expertise** • A total of 5 to 7 years of hands-on experience as a Senior VMWare Administrator and hands-on experience supporting various vSphere components (vCenter, ESXi, VUM, VUMDS, etc...), and networking concepts (VLANs, routing, etc). • Familiarity with server virtualization technologies and SAN/storage concepts (LUNs, HBAs, logical volumes, NFS, iSCSI, etc….) • In depth experience with server chassis technologies (HP c7000, Cisco UCS) and security hardening experience. • Working knowledge of OS security best practices and configuring/managing/updating large groups of servers. • Desired skills include Scripting, Clustering Concepts, creating/maintaining documentation, and training junior team members. Required Certification: CompTIA SecurityRequired Clearance: SECRET Clearance **Preferred technical and professional experience** • Scripting - powershell, BASH, python, Ansible, etc… • Clustering Concepts - WFC, Oracle RAC • Experience with DoD Security Technical Implementation Guidelines • In depth OS knowledge - Windows X, Windows Server 20XX, RHEL/OEL X IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.