Law: VMware Engineer - Arlington, TX

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I am writing to see if you or anyone you may know of is interested in the below position, please email me resume at your earliest convenience along with the details requested below the job description.

Position : VMware Engineer

Location : Arlington, TX
Duration : 18 month

Roles/ Job Description:

BASIC FUNCTION:
The Virtualization and Storage Engineer II is responsible for providing deep day to day or "business as usual ( "BAU ) work to the Infrastructure group in the following areas: Virtualization, Storage technology, and hardware technology. This individual will work in an environment requiring tasks using mid-tier level experience with virtualization technologies, storage technologies and hardware technologies. This is a production support role, with responsibility for global systems impacting the entire organization. This role is senior technologist who can follow defined processes and procedures but can work with a certain degree of autonomy with the aforementioned technologies. Work load distribution: 80% operations 20% projects/architecture.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Knowledge:

Understanding of enterprise datacenter technologies including networking, security, NAS, Cloud Computing, and physical datacenter practices.
Production (24x7) support, understanding of mission critical systems support and how to "hand-off in a 24x7 model.

Skills:

Excellent verbal and written communication with customers and across all levels of seniority in the business.
Ability to apply sound troubleshooting methodology to isolate and identify the root cause of reported issues as well as facilitate collaborative solutions (work with peers to resolve problems).
Data Network Skills/Strong Knowledge: LAN, IP, Routing and Switching, DNS and DHCP.

Experience:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or 6 year's equivalent work experience in the associated areas.
At least one of the following certifications: VMware Certified Professional (any specialty), EMC Proven Professional (any specialty), or HP Certified Professional (any specialty).
3+ years of experience in virtualization administration (especially VMware).
3+ years of experience in storage area network administration (especially EMC).
3+ years of experience in hardware platforms in a datacenter environment (especially HP blades).
6+ years of general network computing industry experience.

Previous experience working in a remote team, preferably global.

JOB DUTIES:

Work in a global team with team members in the US and Europe.
Participate in mission critical day to day support with US and other global team members.
Serve as an escalation point for Level I Engineers or other internal Infrastructure customers providing a certain degree training to these teams.
Resource planning - is able to effectively monitor and proactively identify issues requiring the scaling resources according to current metrics. Ensure all technologies are delivering predictable performance with available capacity ahead of business needs.
System Administration: Hardware Possess knowledge of server hardware such as the HP C-class blade system. Provides administration and support of highly complex technical infrastructures that require an increased level of security focus. These environments require knowledge of the installation and configuration of various operating systems including Windows and Linux.
System Administration: Virtualization Possess knowledge of virtualization technologies such as VMware. Understands the details of OS hardening and deploying secured environments in a 3-tier logical network stack in a virtualized environment.
System Administration: SAN Posses knowledge of SAN storage technologies and is able to administer and manage the day to day operations of storage systems. Provides zoning, masking, and mapping of storage in a mid-level storage environment.
Works with vendors to resolve hardware and software issues.
Analyze and troubleshoot existing systems.
Maintain a positive "can do attitude and work with other team members to achieve a cooperative and productive environment.
Maintain a Production System "mentality you will work on and support many systems that generate revenue and are utilized 24x365.
Work on any tickets in queue. In most cases, complex troubleshooting or resources and performance issues.
Daily health checks for all technologies.
Participate in on-call rotation.
Bring new ideas and methodologies to improve the department.

Perform additional related responsibilities as requested.

SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGY RESPONSIBLITIES INCLUDE:

Server Hardware - HP C7000 C-Class Blade Systems

Install cabling, initial chassis configuration and discovery.
Configure create LAN and SAN policies, server profiles, etc.
Manage Deploy servers from service profile templates, add VLANs to policies.
Maintain current installation.
Troubleshoot errors in HP SIM .
Related responsibilities as requested.

Virtualization - VMware vSphere (Includes Site Recovery Manager, Operations Manager, vCenter, Horizon View).

Maintain current installation.
Install and configure new servers.
Performance tuning for virtual machines and hosts.
Manage virtual infrastructure performance tiers including resource pools, shares, affinity, etc.
Manage virtualization tools, including snapshots, data replication, clones, etc.
Monitoring (vCenter and vCOPs).
Related responsibilities as requested.

Storage - EMC VNX, HP MSA.

For both platforms, monitor, provision space, balance load, and troubleshoot performance and outages.
Analyze Storage Infrastructure requirements and make recommendations for future solutions.
Work on continued integration and automation between Storage/Virtual Network Infrastructure/Physical Network Infrastructure.
Support and maintain all solutions.
Perform proactive storage infrastructure performance monitoring, analysis, alerting, reporting, and tuning.
Manage storage infrastructure capacity analysis and reporting.
Manage storage performance tiers based on data classification, keeping highest utilized blocks on fastest performing storage.
Manage storage recovery tools, including snapshots, data replication, de-duplication, RecoverPoint, etc.
Related responsibilities as requested.