Senior Systems Engineer, VMWare

Description

We are looking for a results-driven VMware focused senior systems engineer to optimize our company's VMware environment. You will be deploying and supporting VMware based Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) systems and applications, as well as providing VMware and Cisco UCS support.

To ensure success as a senior systems engineer, you should exhibit sound knowledge of VMware ESX and related technologies, and experience in a similar role. An accomplished VMware engineer will be someone whose expertise results in the successful integration of VMware products across multiple data centers.
Responsibilities

• Provide technical support to team and customers, responding promptly to issues reported by team and customers, conducting root cause analysis, and going through various testing scenarios for thorough resolution.
• Develop and maintain operational documentation and specifications on system builds, disaster recovery, and standard operating procedures.
• Good Understanding of shared storage technologies including SAN, NAS, Fiber channel, iSCSI, and NFS.
• Manage and administration of multiple Cisco UCS Domains.
• Plan, test and deploy patches through VUM and AutoDeploy to manage version compliance.
• Drive root cause analysis and provide feedback to improve architecture changes.
• Drive customer escalated issues to closure by providing workarounds and fixes in a timely manner.
• Enhance customer satisfaction by responding to all customer issues and providing relief either through self or by driving visibility of the issues upstream to ensure they get fixed.
• Improve product supportability and serviceability by actively participating in new design development to provide feedback to drive increased stability of VMware platforms for enhanced customer satisfaction.
• Participate in an on-call rotation.
• An ability to learn new technologies quickly, good time management skills, along with strong documentation skills.
• Good communication skills both written and verbal.

Qualifications

7+ years of core VMware experience with strong proficiency in the installation, configuration, and management of below technologies:

Required:

• 7+ years of hands on experience with VMware ESXi 6.5 and above
• 7+ years of hands on experience with vCenter HA/DRS Clusters
• 4+ years of hands on experience with Cisco UCS Administration
• 4+ years good understanding of Shares Storage Technologies
• 2+ years good understanding of VMware Skyline
• 2+ years of OS Troubleshooting experience

Desired:

• 2+ years of hands on VMware experience on AWS
• 2+ years of hands on Linux administration
• 2+ years of hands on Windows administration
• 2+ years good understanding of VMware NSX
• 2+ years good understanding of vCloud Director
• 2+ years good understanding of VMware Tanzu
• 2+ years of good understanding of Network Administration