Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities

• In depth knowledge in VMware hypervisor management experience.

• Server hardware support and deployment experience.

• Extensive experience working in a virtualization enterprise environment.

• Heavy experience with automation and digitizing workflows.

• Automate any and all operational works related to virtualized environments.

• Build and maintain customization specifications along with associated automation, tooling and quality control.

• Recommend and execute modifications to server environment in order to improve efficiency, reliability, and performance

• Build detailed capacity plans for different virtualized environments in world wide.

• Measure, monitor and optimize hardware utilization.

• Performance analysis and tuning of virtualized environments.

• Build high availability & reliable architecture designs of virtualized platforms as per business requirements

• Document workflows, processes, procedures, configurations and use cases of infrastructure.

• Configure, run and measure load profiles via test automation and scripting.

• Manage and provide 3rd Line Support, process, and procedures for the company VMware infrastructure components in accordance with agreed service levels, standards and processes.

• Identify and drive initiatives to proactively improve the quality and effectiveness of the infrastructure services to minimize business disruption.

Challenges

• Willing to travel to USA at various times for collaboration activities.

• Willing to work in 24x5 shift roster

• The position may require to be part of an on-call rotation

• Working with counterparts in other global team

• Working with global team

• Maintaining 99.9% network uptime

• Ability to learn and absorb new technologies and skills faster

Technical Competency

• 8 Years working experience related to Infrastructure/Virtualization operations

• VMware ESX infrastructure platform experience in ESXi 4, ESXi 5.x

• Demonstrated expertise in the design, implementation and support of VMware server infrastructures.

• Good understanding of related storage technologies e.g. SAN, NAS and NFS storages.

• Strong understanding of automation/scripting techniques.(vSphere power CLI, Power Shell)

• Strong understanding VMware Templates and Customization Specifications

• Understanding of data communication protocols focusing on TCP/IP.

• Understanding of SAN/NAS technologies.

• In depth experience with hardware and software based server monitoring tools.

• Demonstrated competency in the use of project management tools and methodologies.

• Working experience with Distributed Switches and Virtual Switches

• Working experience with Data store configurations and storage networking

• Experience with Host profile configurations

• Strong understanding of Permissions/Roles and security groups

• Sound knowledge in  VMotion, HA, DRS, VDS, Affinity rules and EVC configurations

• Working Experience with P2V conversions.

• In depth experience with ESX and vcenter host configurations and optimization

• Experience with Update Manger and patch updates

• Experience in designing cloud-based infrastructure

Non-Technical Competency

• Should be able to work independently with minimum supervision from onsite locations.

• Should be willing to work on extended and irregular hours when required.

• Strong self-starter, motivated to help TEAM in their deliverables

• Ability to present to internal audiences and excellent communication skill

• Should be comfortable in working under pressure

• Ability to handle multiple concurrent tasks

• Should have very good verbal & written communication skills.

Educational & Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, IS or equal qualifications.

• VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV)

• VMware Certified Professional - Cloud (VCP-Cloud)

• VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 - Data Center Administration (VCAP5-DCA)

• VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Cloud Infrastructure Design (VCAP-CID)

• VMware Certified Design Expert 5 - Data Center Virtualization (VCDX5-DCV)

• ITIL - Foundation

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