VMWare Systems Administration

NO OPT

Associate Principal, Server Administration

SALARY: $160k - $165k flex plus 15% bonus

LOCATION: CHICAGO, IL

HYBRID 3 days onsite and 2 days remote

Summary

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. Responsibilities also include designing solutions to support existing and future services and enhance security posture.

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

Qualifications & Experience

• [Required] Advanced technical knowledge of VMware virtualization technologies like Horizon, vROPS, SDDC Manager, VSAN, SRM, vRA, vRO etc.
• [Required] Expertise in architecting, configuring, and supporting Cisco UCS systems
• [Required] Experience working in Hyper Converged (VxRail) based technologies and develop solutions accordingly
• [Required] Expertise or establish optimized virtual environments for giant database cluster builds such as DB2 and Microsoft SQL on VMware platform
• [Required] Strong technical ability to manage orchestration aspects through API scripts and tools, enabling a consistent methodology across UCS platform
• [Required] Develop automation solutions including Infrastructure as Code approach to establish and maintain automated, integrated and continuous deployments
• [Required] Ensure Infrastructure operations are effective and optimally established and supported across all layers including server, storage, backup, monitoring, patching services and monitoring
• [Required] Knowledge and Experience in Cloud computing, VCF and VMWare in Cloud
• [Required] Familiar with using PowerCLI/Powershell to manage a VMware Environment
• [Required] Capacity planning/tracking
• [Required] Familiar with storage concepts (replication, Fiber Channel, NFS, VMFS)
• [Required] Experience with developing Disaster Recovery strategies and work with other teams within the organization and external teams to execute scheduled DR tests

Education & Training

• [Required] Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related degree or equivalent experience
• [Required] 5+ years VMWare and Cisco UCS experience
• [Required] Minimum 1 year of hyperconverged VXRail experience