Description:
Prestigious Fortune 500 Firm is seeking a VMware System Engineer. This individual will be working on VMware across Windows, Linux and Unix. The scope of this job is an experienced Senior Systems Engineer: Lead, design, engineer, build, test, and upgrade platform infrastructure; implement and maintain/support Enterprise virtualization platform; provide consulting services to clients across the Enterprise, with the ability to understand and assimilate complex cross-discipline, and cross-technology concepts and processes. This posting relates to a role that will be responsible for the design, engineering and management of processes that are the backbone for the enterprise server hosting infrastructure. Furthermore, this position plays an active role in providing technical leadership around the platform overall strategic roadmap, inclusive of capacity and architecture planning as well as performance assessment and analyses.
Skillsets:
1. Each member of the team must have the experience and significant knowledge working with the industry technology standards and processes, as enumerated below. Their level of knowledge must be sufficient for them to be able to establish and maintain the technology infrastructure and in particular, advocating industry best practices. The member must also have the ability to assimilate industry trends and technology developments, and provide technical leadership within IS in keeping the companys VMware Infrastructure not only current but leading in the industry.
" Infrastructure Provisioning
" SDLC Methodologies
" Reusable Frameworks
" Security Standards (SOX, PCI, etc&)
" Capacity and Performance Analysis
" Operational Tenets of VMware Infrastructure, e.g. vMotion, Physical to Virtual Migrations, etc.
2. Each member must have advanced skills, knowledge and experience, in the technologies enumerated below that would allow them to perform installation, configuration, administration, management, performance tuning, advanced customization and advanced troubleshooting. The member must have the ability to lead and provide direction to enterprise-wide implementations of these technologies.
" VMware vSphere 4.1 and higher (ESX and ESXi)
" VMware vCenter 4.1 and higher
" VMware CapacityIQ
" vCloud Director
" VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
" Storage Technologies (SAN, NAS, Replication and Backup)
" Networking Technologies - F5, GSLB, Load Balancers
3. Each member must have significant knowledge of the following infrastructure technologies; they must possess direct experience working on these platforms. This experience should be sufficient to allow them to perform administration, and development with these technologies. Additionally, each member must have the ability to dive deeper into each of these technologies as it relates to the VMware infrastructure in support of advanced installation, configuration, and troubleshooting activities.
" Windows 2003, 2008, Cluster
" Linux - Red Hat Enterprise Linux
" Unix - Solaris 9 and 10, Solaris Cluster, Solaris Containers/Zones
" Oracle DBMS and Microsoft SQL Server
" SQL, SQLPlus, TOAD
" Microsoft Active Directory (LDAP technologies)
" .NET Framework
" Microsoft IIS
4. Additionally, each member must have knowledge of the technologies specified below that would allow them to suitably manage the industry technology standards (specified in 1 above), and specific technologies (specified in 2 and 3 above).
" Security/Cryptography Technologies - SSH, SSL, PGP, etc..
" Scripting Power Shell, PowerCLI, Perl, ANT scripting, windows batch scripting, etc.
" Microsoft Office Tool Suite: Word, Excel, Access, Visio, PowerPoint, Infopath, etc.
" Windows Sharepoint Services
5. Each member must have a solid understanding of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) principles, practices and processes in providing and managing the delivery of a large scale, Enterprise-wide service. This includes incident management, problem management, change management, configuration management, and availability/continuity management. The member must have sufficient knowledge and experience to design and establish these processes and practices within a service organization.
6. Each member of the team must be comfortable in addressing Priority 1 level incidents that can arise 24X7 necessitating participation in rapid response calls as well as SWAT Team activities. Advanced troubleshooting and problem management skills are required.
7. Each member of the team should have familiarity and experience with the design of various technology automation architectures and patterns, high availability configurations, and disaster recovery strategies and processes. Each member must have experience in capacity planning and management as well as exposure in performance testing and trending analyses.
8. As part of their day to day responsibilities, each individual must also posses the following skills:
" Ability to identify opportunities for automating and orchestrating the manual / time consuming redundant processes with the view to scale it for the enterprise needs.
" Ability to refine the architecture and workflows to tune to scale based on the enterprise needs.
" Ability to lead the implementation of programs, projects or technology implementation, providing technical leadership to a team, partnering with architecture services and other subject matter experts, engaging other technology teams (infrastructure partners), and working with key stakeholders and users.
" Ability to communicate to and manage a wide user base in providing information, providing education and managing expectations in the process of the overall management of the service.
" Ability and inclination of working with different users, teams or areas in providing customer service in the delivery of a large scale service.
" Ability to present and advocate enterprise standards, technology standards, environment policies, procedures, strategies and best practices in working with different users, teams and application areas.
" Ability to document and present standards, processes and guides.
" Ability to take part in a team that is responsible for 24X7 Support of the VMware Infrastructure that is achieved through a tiered structure of support as well as the incorporation of sourcing partners, both onshore and offshore.
