Senior Virtualization Systems Engineer/Architect
A.C.Coy Company
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Raleigh • North Carolina • United States
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About the role
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert on best practices for server virtualizations solutions and make recommendations
- Responsible for the design, configuration, deployment, integration, and maintenance and support of server virtualization and server infrastructure solutions
- Specialize in building and managing virtual computing platforms
- Play a critical role in data migration, virtual machine lifecycle management, troubleshooting, tuning and performance, and monitoring of the environment
- Provide technical assistance and advice on complex activities
- Formulate and define specifications, develop, modify and maintain complex systems and subsystems, using vendor engineering releases and utilities for overall operational systems
- Apply analytical techniques when gathering information from users, defining work problems, designing technology solutions, and developing procedures to resolve the problems
- Develop complete specifications to enable computer programmers to prepare required programs
- Review task proposal requirements, gather information, analyze data, prepare project synopses, compare alternatives, prepare specifications, resolve processing problems, coordinate work with programmers and engineers, and orient users to new systems
- Work with considerable freedom to make decisions on the techniques and approaches to be used
- Prepare recommendations for system improvement for management and user consideration
- Architect and design server virtualization solutions
- Perform systems administration for Windows Server and UNIX / Linux systems such as RHEL and SLES
- Develop automation through scripting and APIs (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, PowerShell, Python, Bash, Terraform)
- Perform certificate lifecycle management for systems and applications
- Evaluate inefficiencies with server resources and make right-sizing recommendations
- Manage and maintain server virtualization platform on premise as well as cloud e.g. VMware, Nutanix, Harvester, OpenShift, Proxmox, Azure, AWS, GCP
- Play a lead role in meetings relating to specific technical projects or tasks
- Respond promptly to incidents in ServiceNow
- Diagnose and repair system problems working closely with vendor support for all servers, software and other hardware directly or with the team members
- Define, monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot system performance of all server virtualization and other related infrastructure systems
Requirements
- A degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services is required
- 13+ years of professional experience in supporting virtualization technologies
- Basic understanding of data center networking (TCP/IP, switching/routing, ports and protocols, firewall concepts, load-balancing)
- Strong, demonstrable scripting experience in one or more of the following: PowerShell, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, VBScript, C++, Unix Shell, Python, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, etc.
- Basic understanding of storage protocols (e.g. NFS, SMB, S3, FC, iSCSI, NVMe)
- Good knowledge of Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Group Policy
- Knowledge of MS Windows Server operating systems including Server 2016, 2019, and 2022 as well as RHEL and SLES operating systems
- Knowledge of MS database server SQL Server 2008 R2 and later
- Knowledge of container technologies including but not limited to Docker, Kubernetes, and Rancher
- Knowledge of IaaS in cloud using MS Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Experience with hardening and improving the security of Windows operating systems and hardware platforms, local area networks, wide area networks, messaging, and client-server applications
- Ability to develop and maintain IT documentation
- Expertise working with vendors to resolve problems and implement solutions independently
- Excellent communication skills
- Must be eligible to obtain a Position of Public Trust clearance
- All candidates must be a US Citizen or have permanent residence status (Green Card)
- Candidate must have lived in the United States for the past 5 years.
- Cannot have more than 6 months travel outside the United States within the last 5 years. Military Service excluded.
Benefits
- Eligible for a federal government background investigation for clearance
- Hybrid work arrangement in Raleigh, NC
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
server virtualizationdata migrationvirtual machine lifecycle managementscriptingWindows ServerUNIXLinuxcontainer technologiesIaaSnetworking
Soft Skills
communicationanalyticalproblem-solvingdecision-makingtechnical assistanceproject managementcollaborationuser orientationrecommendation preparationvendor management
Certifications
Position of Public Trust clearance