Provide day-to-day support and administration of the VMware & Hyper-V environment.
Client is currently using vSphere 7 and always wants to be prepared for future upgrades. In order to prepare for a future upgrade, there needs to be a thorough analysis of the current environment including the configuration and overall health.
Expected duties to include, but not be limited to, the following:
Manage VMware Infrastructure/vSphere & Hyper-V clusters on Production and Test/Development environments
Build, test, and maintain new VMs
Familiarity with VMware Horizon and able to assist when needed
Work with system owners and fine tune VM configurations to get the best performance/resource utilization
Detection of VMware issues, monitoring and ownership of standards and requirements
Participate in capacity planning for the infrastructure
Provide tools and procedures for resources provisioning
Document processes and procedures
Propose VM provisioning solutions to be analyzed and/or implemented
Evaluate and apply version updates to ESX hosts and vulnerability patches as needed
Develop and implement test plans to verify installation, upgrades or repairs, including back-out plans
Outstanding communication skills
Excellent troubleshooting skills
Ability to provide after-hours support occasionally as needed
Excellent organizational and time management skills
Ability to work both independently and as a member of a team
Initiative to research and resolve problems
Minimum skillsets required must include:
- 5+ years experience with VMware & Hyper-V systems administration and support
- Working experience with vSphere systems administration and support, including storage migrations, vMotion and P2V migrations
- Basic understanding of Unix/Linux
- Strong focus on vSphere capacity planning and performance tools