Hypervisor Lead Engineer

  • West Hartford, CT
  • Posted 53 days ago | Updated 9 hours ago

Overview

On Site
USD 150,000.00 per year
Full Time

Skills

Recruiting
Performance tuning
Quality assurance
Vulnerability management
Knowledge transfer
Application development
Production support
Capacity management
Vendor relationships
Problem solving
Hypervisor
Leadership
Apex
Management
Computer hardware
Automation
Network
Storage
OpenStack
Specification
Regulatory Compliance
Policies
Dashboard
IT service management
Communication
Analytical skill
Teamwork
Migration
Linux
Kubernetes

Job Details

Job#: 2014702

Job Description:
Apex Systems combines with parent company On Assignment to make it the 2nd largest IT staffing agency in the country.
Apex has an opportunity for aLead Engineerrole. This is a direct hire position, and the pay rate is negotiable depending on experience.

For applicants who are interested in the Lead Engineer opportunity; please send a Word resume to Alexa Whalen, Professional Recruiter, at
Position: Lead Engineer
Location: Remote - occasional travel to CT a few times a year
Rate: 150k salary
Duration: Perm, direct hrie
Summary
The hardware and hypervisor team provides enterprise-wide compute and virtualized environments for general and special purpose workloads, include critical applications. The hypervisor lead engineer should have extensive experience designing, building, maintaining, and troubleshooting large, virtualized environments. A strong emphasis on leveraging automation tools to build and maintain environments should be demonstrated. The lead engineer should also have direct experience in configuring network and storage for an enterprise scaled environment. In addition, the lead engineer should have direct experience partnering with product vendors, value added resellers, delivery, and support teams to resolve issues and achieve organizational goals.

Responsibilities and Essential Functions
  • Partner with hardware vendors and value-added resellers to architect OpenStack environments to best practices
  • Build new and reconfigure existing OpenStack environments to latest specifications
  • Develop hardware and hypervisor Life Cycle Management processes
  • Partner with application teams to provide performance optimization suggestions based on application testing
  • Evaluate and deploy compute and hypervisor monitoring tools
  • Partner with security stakeholders to define vulnerability management and compliance policies
  • Identify OpenStack environment workload profiles and tune environment by workload types
  • Utilize automation to administer compute and hypervisor environment
  • Develop dashboards / reports to monitor the health of environment and communicate when changes are needed
  • Leverage ITSM processes to identify and mitigate incident reoccurrence
  • Lead Proof of Concepts (POCs) including working with application teams, consultant firms, and product vendors
  • Provide knowledge transfer to team members
  • Partner with application development and production support leaders as need
  • Engage in capacity planning discussions, forecasts, solutions

Position Qualifications
  • 10+ years of experience working in an environment supporting enterprise applications
  • Experience with product / vendor relationships
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong interpersonal and relationship skills
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills
  • Demonstrated Teamwork behaviors
  • Experience utilizing automation technologies
  • Experience managing large and complex enterprise environments
  • Experience migrating between major versions of OpenStack or from an alternative hypervisor
  • At least 5 years of experience as a Linux Engineering in an enterprise environment
  • Kubernetes / OpenShift experience - nice to have .. can teach OpenShift/Stack
  • Public Cloud experience - nice to have


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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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