Job Description
Insight Global is seeking a junior VMware Engineer to join the Compute team for one of the world largest financial institutions to support a VMware stack refresh for one of the firm's customers. This individual will need to be honest, wanting to learn, and a great team player and counterpart to the other members of the Compute team. The team is willing to train up this person. This person will be joining a focused, two-person team, whose goal is to refresh the current VMware stack (ESX) for a small yet critical environment for the firm. The current stack is utilizing vSphere to manage their products and are connected to Block Storage threw Vsan (Dell emc storage). This person will be reporting into a technical lead and supervisor who has the needed experience of working with vendors since this project is operating as a managed service. Environment and process improvement through automation or other means will be the primary focus of this team.
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Required Skills & Experience
* Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, computer programming, or similar
* Design, implement, and maintain VMware vSphere virtualization infrastructure, including ESXi hosts (6.5+), vCenter Server, and vSAN
* Configure and manage virtual networks, storage, and other virtualization components
* Installation, configuration, administration Virtual Center Server, VMware View, Disaster Recovery, Plate Spin, vMotion, P2V, P2P, V2V, VMWare Update Manager
* Monitor and troubleshoot VMware vSphere environment for performance and availability
* Develop and maintain automation scripts for VMware vSphere environment
* vCenter integration with AD, DNS, backup or any other applications
* Experience in managing Red Hat RHEL Operating Systems
* Optimizing network hardware and software to enable VMWare integration
* Experience with storage products (Dell/EMC/Hitachi)
* Experience with SAN, NAS, CIFS, NFS Protocols, fiber channel switches Brocade, Cisco
* Experience in managing and executing on large scale virtualization migration and modernization projects including physical hardware and OS/software tooling upgrades while managing cost saving optimization
* Design disaster recovery planning, testing and execute on failover procedures
* Determining business needs and evaluating existing network infrastructure and systems
* Strong communication and collaboration skills
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
* VMWare Certified Professional (VCP) preferred (VCAP Design, VCAP Deploy, VCDX a plus)
* Experience in other virtualization technologies -- Kernel-based virtual machines (KVM), Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (container-native virtualization)
* Experience in container technologies -- Kubernetes
* In-depth knowledge in Virtualization and Hypervisor security including hardening techniques for the virtualization platform to prevent attack threats
* Experience managing relationships with vendors
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.