Lead Virtualization Engineer - UCS, VMWare, VDI

Overview

Hybrid
$160,000 - $165,000
Full Time

Skills

Virtualization
VMware
NFS
Scripting
Cisco UCS

Job Details

NO SPONSORSHIP - NO OPT

Lead Associate Principal, Server Engineering - VMWare

SALARY: $150k - $165k flex plus 15% bonus

LOCATION: CHICAGO, IL

HYBRID 3 days onsite

You will design support and automate support for UCS VMware. Support Vxrail, VDI environment horizon, vROPS.

Responsible for the Virtualization environment design, support, and automation. The role will provide operational support for the existing and future Virtualization and computing and VDI architectures.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

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

Automate processes in the VMWare environment

Provide on-call support according to assigned schedule

Qualifications & Experience

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

Expertise in architecting, configuring, and supporting Cisco UCS systems

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

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

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

Develop automation solutions including Infrastructure as Code

Knowledge and Experience in Cloud computing, VCF and VMWare in Cloud

Familiar with using PowerCLI/Powershell to manage a VMware Environment

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

Experience with developing Disaster Recovery strategies

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related degree or equivalent experience

7+ years VMWare and Cisco UCS experience

Minimum 1 year of hyperconverged VXRail experience

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