VMware Engineer

Additional Job Information:

Title : Data Center Virtualization Administrator

Contact : Norfolk Southern Inc.,
Location : Atlanta, GA United States

Job Description

• Provide all aspects of data center virtualization (VMWare/Nutanix) server and system administration (installation, provisioning, configuration, user account setup, support, and maintenance etc.)
• Ensure continued resiliency, security, and scalability of current environment.
• Identify hardware needs and partner with NS vendors for related procurement.
• Collaborate with internal data center team in racking, stacking, cabling procured hardware.
• Partner with SCCM and security groups to timely upgrade, patch and mitigate vulnerability risks to guarantee business continuity of installed server base.
• Maintain continued documentation of process flows, system diagrams, and knowledge base.
• Troubleshoot, triage, and provide advanced support on supported systems.
• Participate and ensure success in disaster recovery and business continuity exercises.
• Continue maturing and enhancing portfolio of supported systems while establishing best practices and stellar stewardship including governance.
• Endorse Sox compliance of system processes & user access by partnering with the audit group.

• Design, develop, test, implement and support effective enterprise infrastructure platforms that meet business specific requirements.
• Provide rotating weekly on-call 24x7 support.
• Work closely with Enterprise Architecture, Audit and Security teams to understand, establish, and uphold NS IT standards and architectural integration patterns.

Required Skills:

• Hands on experience in implementing converged infrastructure and Nutanix/VMWare hyperconverged infrastructures in data centers.
• Demonstrated working experience with Nutanix administration (including Prism Element, Prism Central) and VMWare administration (including vSphere, vCenter, vROPS, Aria Automation)
• Hands on experience in AHV, ESXi, Metro Availability & Hyper-V hypervisors on Dell, HP, Lenovo, Cisco and other comparable hardware
• Solid template management skills for optimal virtual machine provisioning
• Monitor overall/hardware health of compute platform consisting of Hyperconverged infrastructure (Nutanix, vBlock, VMWare, Skyline etc.)
• Good understanding of software defined networking and software defined networking
• Significant prior experience performing design, deploy, and manage Nutanix and VMWare clusters

• Firm grasp of creating virtual machine snapshots and taking recurring backups

• Install, update, and patch AOS and ESXi on a recurring basis.
• Drive regular operations and maintenance of IT infrastructure.
• Coordinate with vendor(s) for upgrade or refresh where the actual upgrade/refresh work will be performed by respective vendor(s).
• Working experience with AFS Management and monitoring.
• Optimize and troubleshoot virtual infrastructure.

• Working knowledge of:
• Networks (LAN, WAN etc.)
• Storage (local, virtual, hyperconverged and shared network)
• Security (firewall variances, tokens/proxy/port management etc.)
• Load balancing
• Optimizing server performance
• Good knowledge of logging, reporting, and monitoring tools (Splunk, Datadog, OpsView etc.)

• Demonstrated excellent documentation skills, team player, organizational, self-starter and communication skills coupled with quick ability to learn new technologies and systems.

Preferred

• Nutanix or VMWare certifications
• Familiarity with physical-to-virtual (P2V) migrations
• Familiarity with VMWare VCF and vSAN technology stacks and inner workings
• Familiarity with 3^rd party integrations (e.g. ServiceNOW, IPAM, AD, CyberArk etc.)
• Familiarity with virtual desktops and workspaces (Citrix XenApp, Xendesktop)

Education:

• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related field

Best Regards,

Sethu Mathan, MBA

Senior Manager, IT Strategic Solution

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