Vmware Architect

Job Title: Vmware Architect 

Location: Remote 100%

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Architecting , designing and supporting virtualization environment (VMware vSphere vCenter vRealize environment including SRM, vCenter, ESXi)
• Proactively monitor virtual environment for capacity, stress, risk and workload and take necessary remediation steps.
• Continuously monitor the security posture of the environment
• Interface with vendors and internal global teams to ensure the environment conforms to the current standards.
• Manage Business Continuance in relation to Disaster Recovery.
• Maintain high system reliability, availability and resiliency levels.
• Provide 1st, 2nd and 3rd level support for the production environments
• Perform system upgrades and mandatory security/OS patching.
• Liaise with application support teams to gather requirements, design, and deploy standard systems
• Provide 24*7 On call support based on rotation within the team
• Perform thorough morning checks on all critical applications using existing tools or scripts
• Strictly abide and follow the company policy and procedures pertaining to change and incident management
• Responsible for ensuring that all systems are deployed consistent with group standards and best practices
• Incident and Problem management: take ownership and work with team to resolve production related issues
• Follow groups standard security practices within the environment
• Maintain an accurate and current hardware and infrastructure software inventory

Minimum Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field
• 5-10 years managing VMWare Engineering and Support teams
• Expert knowledge of VMWare components and technologies such as vCenter, ESXI, SRM, …
• Good working knowledge of VMware APIs and knowledge of at least one scripting technology
• Good knowledge of the SAN / EMC storage including the different SRDF types
• Good knowledge of iSCSI protocol
• Good knowledge of networking technology (i.e. function of TCP/IP, SNMP) subnetting and routing.
• Good knowledge of implementation of SSL Certificates
• Good knowledge
• Working knowledge of Active Directory
• Working knowledge of various database technologies (Oracle, MS SQL, etc.) as they pertain to Virtualized environments.
• Good working knowledge of industry and hyper-converged hardware (e.g. Client/IBM/Dell/Nutanix)
• Knowledge of relational databases such as Sybase, Oracle, and SQL along with MQ Series.
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Service oriented, positive, committed and enthusiastic team player.
• VMware VCAP-DCV Deploy or VCAP-DCV Design Certifications would be a plus