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Our national client is seeking a Senior VMware Engineer to join their new location in Plano TX. This position is 100% remote for now. In the future it may go to a hybrid model with 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.U.S. citizens and permanent residents are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor.
What you will be doingA Senior VMware Engineer you will be directly working in environments supporting automated deployment and management on a VMWare cloud native environment. This role will work directly towards increasing automated recovery and zero touch provisioning using tools like: Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Gitlab, Jenkins, and more.- Act in a technical leadership capacity: Mentor junior engineers and new team members, and apply technical expertise to challenging programming and design problems
- Develop highly available, fault-tolerant VMware infrastructure designs and solutions
- Establishes standards and guidelines for the design & development, tuning, deployment, and maintenance of VMware infrastructure, including backups, upgrade, and automation processes
- Proactively identify and recommend updates to software or architecture as necessary before reaching capacity limitations
- Develop automated responses to incidents so that manual intervention is not necessary
- Champion system metrics (MTBF, MTTR, etc.) and convey them to decision makers on a regular basis
- Manage priority of issues and tickets and participate in rotating an on-call schedule with other members of the team, including weekends
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical degree; six years related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 4 or more years of professional experience in VMware services and tools
- Direct experience in bare-metal deployments of VMware infrastructure
- Direct experience with building and administering multiple VMware products across multiple remote locations and data centers
- 2 or more years’ experience in programming using one or more of the following: Java, C, Perl, Python, Ruby, or advanced Shell scripting
- Hands-on experience Infrastructure-As-Code, automating deployments, cluster management, and systems security within a CI/CD Pipeline
- Experience with VMware on Cloud (VMC) on AWS
- Experience with VMWARE infrastructure in a very large enterprise environment
- Experience in Kubernetes regarding containers / Microservices principles
- Disciplined practice of producing, maintaining, and versioning system documentation