Virtualization Engineer
This is a unique opportunity for an expert in virtualization and storage technologies. The Principal Architect will be a hands-on design engineer, specializing in virtualization technologies for virtual servers and VDI using VMware and Nutanix.
Responsibilities:
* Design enterprise level virtual technologies for the firm
* Manage the day-to-day administration of VMWare and Nutanix clusters
* Performance and capacity management projections
* Create documentation for best practices in deploying Hyper converge solutions
* Provide virtual platform system technical performance and availability recommendations
* Plan and engineer expansion of converged infrastructure
* Deploy and test HA/BCP virtual environments for the firm
* Provide guidance for virtualization best practices
* Participate in the design and support of all backend infrastructure components for the virtual environment for the firm.
Required Skills:
* Minimum of 5 years’ experience with VMWare technologies
* 2 - 3 years of hands-on experience with Nutanix HCI
* Extensive Virtualization Experience such as design, implement, and manage virtual environments, including Datacenter cluster(s) managed by vCenter.
* Experience with VMware vCenter design/Nutanix Prism Central and implementation best practices.
* Experience with building and maintaining high-availability (>99%) VMware environments
* Extensive server hardware knowledge with HPE, Dell or SuperMicro server
* Ability to perform root cause analysis on all VMware products. E.g. ESX hosts, Virtual Centers, and Virtual Machines
* Ability to administrate, maintain, and troubleshoot Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) attached to Virtual environments
* Thorough knowledge of setting up different BCP technologies such as Zerto, SRM, Rubrik, Netbackup etc
* Ability to collaborate with different teams working across different areas in multiple locations in different time zones
Nice to have skills:
* Experience working with GPU at the enterprise level for VDI deployment.
* Working experience with other operating systems such as Linux, Windows
* Basic network knowledge working in an enterprise data center Environment.
* PowerShell or Python scripting experience is a plus
* Familiar with automation tools such as Chef, Jenkin, Pipelines and etc
* Experience with other hypervisors such Citrix XenServer, Hyperv, Openstack is a plus.
* Container experience with Kubernetes or Docker is a plus
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