Systems Engineer, Virtualization and Data Protection

Overview

On Site
Contract - W2

Skills

Continuous improvement
VMware Certified Professional
Data security
Financial services
Problem solving
Process improvement
Incident management
Customer service
Performance tuning
Capacity management
Software deployment
Disaster recovery
Virtualization
Leadership
Recruiting
SAP BASIS
Mergers and acquisitions
Administration
VMware
FOCUS
Documentation
Reporting
Backup
Optimization
Servers
Dashboard
Collaboration
Regulatory Compliance
VCP
Windows PowerShell
PowerCLI
VMware vSphere
Storage
CommVault
NetBackup
Veeam
SAP SRM
Amazon Web Services
Sarbanes-Oxley
System on a chip
Finance
Communication

Job Details

Our client, a leading financial services company, is hiring a Systems Engineer, Virtualization and Data Protection on a contract basis
Job ID 79182

Work Location: Boston, MA

Basic Purpose:

The Systems Engineer is primarily responsible for all aspects of administration, enhancement and problem resolution for the Enterprise's VMware and Data Protection environments. The Systems Engineer will focus on maintaining a highly available and secure environment through best practices, documentation, process improvement and continuous learning. Other responsibilities include identifying problems and errors, incident management, reporting and dashboarding, and project based work. The successful candidate must be able to work in unsupervised situations, provide excellent customer service, be extremely detailed and highly motivated while working in a team-based environment.

Primary Responsibilities:
  • Configuration, maintenance and administration of a secure VMware environment.
  • Configuration, maintenance and administration of a secure data protection environment using various backup technologies.
  • Troubleshooting and resolution of issues in the environment
  • Provide guidance on performance tuning, optimization, and capacity planning for servers and applications
  • Provide comprehensive monitoring and alerting configurations with ability to view environment state via operational dashboards.

Additional Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate with application owners on application deployment and configuration
  • Participate in on-call rotation for off-hours incidents
  • Understanding of security and compliance controls
  • Analyze and identify trends in reported issues and devise preventative solutions
  • Participate in Continuous Process Improvement on team processes.
  • Participate in cross team projects

Job Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • VMware Certified Professional (VCP) preferred
  • Proven ability to automate with Powershell/PowerCLI
  • Experience with VMware 7.0 or higher to include vCenter, vSphere and the vRealize Suite
  • Experience with backup and storage technologies, especially Rubrik, CommVault, NetBackup, Veeam
  • Experience with disaster recovery tools such as SRM and Zerto
  • Experience with AWS
  • Familiar with SOX and SOC controls
  • The candidate must demonstrate strong infrastructure technical qualities. Preferably in a global environment, ideally within the Finance or other regulated industry
  • Good Interpersonal Skills; Communication, flexibility, self-driven, team player
  • Strong verbal and written skills and the ability to interact with global teams and customers

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