Senior VIrtualization Engineer

Senior VIrtualization Engineer

Description

Pearson is a global education company that helps people around the world to make progress in their lives through learning. With a rich heritage that combines 150 years of experience in publishing with the latest learning technology and digital services, we help people to learn whatever, wherever and however they choose. We are now transforming Pearson to accelerate our activity in digital learning, education services and emerging markets. This will enable us to make a lasting impact in helping to solve some of the most important challenges in global education

Responsibility

● 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, configuration 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.

● 24x7 Availability in case of emergencies

● Working with counterparts in other global teams

● Working with global team.

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

● Maintaining 99.9% network uptime

● Ability to learn and absorb new technologies and skills faster

Technical Competency

● VMWare ESX infrastructure platform experience in ESXi 4, ESXi 5

● 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

● Sound knowledge of Open-stack

● Working knowledge of containerization and micro services

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.

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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