NO SPONSORSHIP - NO OPT
Lead Associate Principal, Server Engineering - VMWare
SALARY: $150k - $165k flex plus 15% bonus
LOCATION: CHICAGO, IL
HYBRID 3 days onsite
You will design support and automate support for UCS VMware. Support Vxrail, VDI environment horizon, vROPS.
Responsible for the Virtualization environment design, support, and automation. The role will provide operational support for the existing and future Virtualization and computing and VDI architectures.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Provide advanced support to UCS - VMWare environment
Support 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
Automate processes in the VMWare environment
Provide on-call support according to assigned schedule
Qualifications & Experience
Advanced technical knowledge of VMware virtualization technologies like Horizon, vROPS, SDDC Manager, VSAN, SRM, vRA, vROP etc.
Expertise in architecting, configuring, and supporting Cisco UCS systems
Experience working in Hyper Converged (VxRail) based technologies and develop solutions accordingly
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
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)
Experience with developing Disaster Recovery strategies
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related degree or equivalent experience
7+ years VMWare and Cisco UCS experience
Minimum 1 year of hyperconverged VXRail experience
