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- Hybrid role, mostly remote but onsite as needed.
- Provide technical support responsibilities for various hypervisors (VMWare ESX & Microsoft Hyper-V), cloud virtualization technologies (focused on AWS and Azure), and hardware platforms such as Converged, Hyper-converged systems.
- To date, the supported environment consists of over 5,000+ virtual servers.
- Candidate will be working closely with the Virtualization Architect to provide leading-edge virtualization solutions to the organization.
- Role functions also include but are not limited to Systems design architecture, design/architecture validation, and direct or indirect oversight of systems installation, performance monitoring, optimization, troubleshooting, and maintenance of a variety of systems and hardware platforms.
- Participate in the weekly rotational after-hours on-call support. Available for after-hours on-call 24x7 support.
- Maintain and support virtualization solutions (VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V) considering sizing, infrastructure, data protection, disaster recovery, and application requirements.
- Perform planned maintenance activities on an established cycle. Maintain accurate and up-to-date inventory & documentation.
- Build, maintain and optimize virtualization platforms such as converged and hyper-converged.
- Provide support for various hardware for hosted infrastructure build and maintenance.
- Provide advanced troubleshooting and problem resolution of the entire Virtualization Infrastructure.
- Research root cause of problems and escalate to lead engineer and vendor support, as necessary.
- Develop, automate, and implement operations best practices and appropriately size/re-size the VM guests to maintain systems stability and optimized.
- Provision virtual guests, maintain storage, computing resources, and support.
- Perform capacity management functions to ensure available compute resources for upcoming projects on the roadmap.
- Perform needs analysis, information gathering on client expectations, and technical baselines for writing or reviewing Statements of Work (SOWs).
- Demonstrate a clear understanding and expertise for the deployment of networking technologies in a virtualized environment and be able to present these concepts in conjunction with the ISS Networking Engineering team.
- Responsible for systems design, build, and implementation in the PM Lifecycle.
- Validate production readiness of environment architectures and designs.
- Ensure review and validation of architecture, design, and build the documentation as part of the Formal Design Review and Technical Standards.
- Provide analysis of business requirements to provide sound technical solutions.
- Conduct hardware and software evaluations providing detailed analysis and recommendations based on the study’s outcome.
- Research and recommend tools, scripts, and utilities to improve technical processes.
- Be a champion for ISS and serve as a role model to encourage others to embrace operational changes associated with ISS initiatives.
- Be a robust technical advocate and resource to the project team.
- Present designs and explain complex technical topics to different audiences.
- The successful candidate will have an in-depth understanding of industry-leading virtualization technologies from both a design and engineering perspective.
- Experienced with VMWare ESX / Hyper-V or a combination of both. Strong understanding of Virtual environments.
- Experienced with Microsoft Server Operating Systems and Windows Administration.
- Experience with HP, Cisco UCS, converge and Hyper-converged platforms, hardware installation, and maintenance.
- Preferred Microsoft or VMware Certification.
- Good understanding of the organization's goals and objectives.
- Good interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
- Technical documentation skills.
- Ability to present ideas in user-friendly language.
- Self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail.
- Able to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
- ID: #49284629
- State: California Los angeles 90024 Los angeles USA
- City: Los angeles
- Salary: Depends on Experience
- Job type: Contract
- Showed: 2023-02-18
- Deadline: 2023-04-18
- Category: Et cetera