Job Application

*Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote*

*We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent Full time role*

A prestigious company is looking for an Associate Principal, Virtualization. This person will focus on the design, support, and automation of virtualization environment. This role will work with Vmware, VCS, VXRail VDI, AWS, Kubernetes, Scripting, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Supports UCS - VMWare environment
• Supports 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
• Challenge the status quo with new ideas and drive innovation in the Virtualization environment
• Applies comprehensive knowledge of concepts, processes, practices, and procedures on technical assignments
• Automate processes in the VMWare environment
• Troubleshoots production problems like performance, and runtime issues within the virtualization environment

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 7 years VMWare and Cisco UCS experience
• Minimum 1 year of hyperconverged VXRail experience
• Cloud computing and Converged environment experience is a plus
• Advanced technical knowledge of VMware virtualization technologies like Horizon, vROPS, SDDC Manager, VSAN, SRM, vRA, vRO etc.
• Expertise in architecting, configuring, and supporting Cisco UCS systems
• Experience working in Hyper Converged (VxRail) based technologies and develop solutions accordingly.
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters utilizing Tanzu, Rancher, or similar management platform
• Experience working with replications tools (Zerto, vSphere Replication, etc.) to create highly available systems across multiple datacenters.
• Expertise or establish optimized virtual environments for giant database cluster builds such as DB2 and Microsoft SQL on VMware platform
• Strong technical ability to manage orchestration aspects through API scripts and tools, enabling a consistent methodology across UCS platform
• Develop automation solutions including Infrastructure as Code approach to establish and maintain automated, integrated and continuous deployments
• Ensure Infrastructure operations are effective and optimally established and supported across all layers including server, storage, backup, monitoring, patching services and monitoring
• Knowledge and Experience in Cloud computing, VCF and VMWare in Cloud
• Familiar with using PowerCLI/Powershell to manage a VMware Environment
• Familiar with storage concepts (replication, Fiber Channel, NFS, VMFS)