VMWare Engineer - Cincinnati, ,OH

Hello Professional,

I hope you are doing well.

 

This is Alan Smith representing Pull Skill Technologies, currently looking for a VMWare Engineer for a Long Term Contract Position based in Cincinnati, OH.
Below is the job description, please let me know if you have any candidates on bench suitable to this requirement.

 

Role: VMWare Engineer

Location: Cincinnati, OH

Duration: 12 months

 

Our Compute Engineer will deliver support and product engineering to our customers. You’ll help to develop new products for Hosting Services and business project teams to help improve existing and deliver new functionality into our business.

 

Key Responsibilities:

·         Support and administration of Production, Pre Production (PPE) and Test/Development environments.

·         Creation of standard engineered builds and blueprints for compute platform technologies.

·         Driving storage infrastructure product decisions - which have major and far-reaching impact on the successful use of technology in client.

·         Driving product strategies for compute technologies across a wide spectrum of project and operational stakeholders.

·         Maintenance, communication and lifecycle management of these engineered builds and blueprints.

·         Creation and maintenance of product buy/hold/sell lists as part of Wordplay’s technology lifecycle management.

·         Development and maintenance of point automation and orchestrated workflows.

·         Provide SME escalation for complex support issues, including rapid response of client's incidents.

·         Evaluate system performance and produce reports to recommend and implement platforms improvements as appropriate.

·         Produce and maintain relevant technical and operational documentation.

·         Proactive management of the client's Hosting estate and recommendation of measures to improve service delivery to the client's customer base.

·         Management and implementation of upgrades to services.

·         Fault diagnosis and resolution of service.

·         Escalation of critical issues in accordance with relevant process and procedures.

·         Delivery to agreed Service Level and Operating Level Agreements.

·         Participation in 24x7 on-call rotation and be available for out-of-hours work as required.

·         Manage installations and software upgrades to ensure all services are kept as current as possible and that license audit is performed and all licenses are in place.

·         Manage the configuration and operation of client's platform services.

·         Ensure that client's Information Security policies and guidelines are adhered to for platform services.

·         Interface and maintain relations with other client's IT teams.

·         Provide effective cover for other team members as and when required during absence.

               

Key Relationships:

·         Stakeholders within the Platform Organization

·         Application Support Groups (eComm, Digital, Acquiring, Corporate)

·         Strategic Supplier Management

·         Integrated Infrastructure Solutions                

 

What we look for in our people:

Our Personality

·         Smart

·         Spirited

·         Helpful

               

Experience:

·         4 Years; VMWARE or Hyper-V including supporting services including:

·         VMware vCenter

·         VMware Site Recovery Manager

·         VMware vRealize

·         VMware SRM

·         Experience of engineering standard builds for one or more of the technologies described above.

·         Experience of working with Linux in an enterprise environment.

·         Scripting, packaging skills and familiarity with automation orchestration tooling.

·         Experience of managing large enterprise server environments.

·         Experience of working with hardware platforms such as HP, Nutanix or Dell.

·         Experience of engineering and implementation of infrastructure solutions.

·         Technology product selection, evaluation and testing.

 

Desirable

·         Experience within the financial services industry and exposure of PCI DSS.

·         Experience of ITIL service delivery frameworks.

·         Usage of development tooling such as Git, Jenkins and Jira or Confluence.

·         Recent hands-on experience with the following multiple technologies:

·         RHEL, OEL or Suse Linux

·         VMware Stack

·         Automation technologies (Orchestrators)

·         Server platforms (HP, DELL, Nutanix, Cisco)

 

:: Thanks & Regards ::

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Alan Smith | US IT Recruiter | Pull Skill Technologies Inc.

| Board: 201-497-1010 X 107  | Fax: 201-641-0110

New Jersey | Texas | Hyderabad | alan@pullskill.com | www.pullskill.com

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