Senior VMware VxRail Engineer

***We are unable to sponsor for this permanent full-time role**

***Position is bonus eligible***

Prestigious Financial Company is currently seeking a Senior VMware VxRail Engineer. Candidate will provide operational support for the existing and future Virtualization and computing and VDI architectures.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities also include designing solutions to support existing and future services and enhance security posture.

Provide advanced support to UCS – VMWare environment

Support VXRail VDI environment

Develop baselines, evaluate, and remediate Vulnerabilities and security findings

Meet with Business, IT and Security Leaders to develop requirements and communicate changes to the environment

Challenge the status quo with new ideas and drive innovation in the Virtualization environment

Apply comprehensive knowledge of concepts, processes, practices, and procedures on technical assignments

Automate processes in the VMWare environment

Troubleshoot production problems like performance, and runtime issues within the virtualization environment

Address problems of systems integration, compatibility, and multiple platforms

Evaluate and recommends application integration and testing tools

Provide Disaster Recovery testing support

Provide on-call support according to assigned schedule

Document changes, policies and procedures and drawings

Contribute to projects of various sizes and schedules

Qualifications:

[Required] Advanced technical knowledge of VMware virtualization technologies like Horizon, vROPS, SDDC Manager, VSAN, SRM, vRA, vRO etc.

[Required] Expertise in architecting, configuring, and supporting Cisco UCS systems

[Required] Experience working in Hyper Converged (VxRail) based technologies and develop solutions accordingly

[Required] Expertise or establish optimized virtual environments for giant database cluster builds such as DB2 and Microsoft SQL on VMware platform

[Required] Strong technical ability to manage orchestration aspects through API scripts and tools, enabling a consistent methodology across UCS platform

[Required] Develop automation solutions including Infrastructure as Code approach to establish and maintain automated, integrated and continuous deployments

[Required] Ensure Infrastructure operations are effective and optimally established and supported across all layers including server, storage, backup, monitoring, patching services and monitoring

[Required] Knowledge and Experience in Cloud computing, VCF and VMWare in Cloud

[Required] Familiar with using PowerCLI/Powershell to manage a VMware Environment

[Required] Capacity planning/tracking

[Required] Familiar with storage concepts (replication, Fiber Channel, NFS, VMFS)

[Required] Experience with developing Disaster Recovery strategies and work with other teams within the organization and external teams to execute scheduled DR tests

[Required] Review and recommend alternative technologies and improvements to enhance information systems to support organizational goals and present to senior management

[Required] Create documentation (like run books) for the developed procedures and best practices

[Required] Lead troubleshooting and recovery efforts during outages or complex issues including but not limited to performance, functionality issues etc.

Education & Training:

[Required] Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related degree or equivalent experience

[Required] 7+ years VMWare and Cisco UCS experience

[Required] Minimum 1 year of hyperconverged VXRail experience

[Preferred] Cloud computing and Converged environment experience