Job Description
An employer is looking for a VMWare Infrastructure Engineer for a direct-hire opportunity in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. The client is a large insurance, annuity and investment company, and the VMWare Infrastructure Engineer will be responsible for the design, installation, maintenance, and support of the client's virtualization infrastructure. Works with minimal supervision and is responsible to make an established range of decisions, escalates to manager when necessary and updates manager on a regular basis.
Designs, installs, maintains, and supports a large enterprise data center infrastructure.
Implements VMware solutions, troubleshoots VM environment problems, and provides technical support.
Architects and engineers next generation virtualization solutions.
Analyzes server performance data and statistics, prepares reports and recommends changes and improvements to ensure performance and availability objectives.
Installing VMware security patches and bug fixes.
Stays current with virtualization trends to support new applications, incorporating industry standards and best practices.
Interfaces with vendor support service groups for contract renewals and to ensure proper escalation during outages or periods of degraded system performance.
Participates in the implementation of disaster recovery solutions and the execution of periodic disaster recovery tests.
Provides training and mentoring to other staff on technical topics and data center infrastructure design.
Performs Tier 3 support for the data center infrastructure when problems or issues cannot be resolved by Help Desk or Tier 2 support staff.
Perform other duties as assigned by management.
The role could be broken down as 50% support (troubleshooting and resolving VMWare environment issues; storage & backup) and 50% project work (installing and configuring server hosts; maintain and upgrade VMWare environment)
Required Skills & Experience
2+ years of experience installing, configuring, and troubleshooting VMWare ESXi 5.
2+ years of experience Vmware's vCenter
Experience supporting large (multiple hosts)enterprise servers, storage, and/or backup infrastructure
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
ESXi 7. experience (this is what they work with now)
Vrealize Operations (VROps)/Aria Operations
VDI/Horizon experience
Experience with VMware NSX-T (Software Defined Networking)
Experience with Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS)
Experience with supporting storage arrays or backup platforms
Strong understanding of and/or supporting Cloud environments
VCP certification
Any Cisco network certifications
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.