Lead Associate Principal, Server Engineering

What You'll Do:

Responsible for the Virtualization environment design, support, and automation. The role will provide operational support for the existing and future Virtualization and computing and VDI architectures.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Responsibilities also include designing solutions to support existing and future services and enhance security posture.

• Provide advanced support to UCS – VMWare environment

• Support VXRail VDI environment

• Develop baselines, evaluate, and remediate Vulnerabilities and security findings

• Meet with Business, IT and Security Leaders to develop requirements and communicate changes to the environment

• Challenge the status quo with new ideas and drive innovation in the Virtualization environment

• Apply comprehensive knowledge of concepts, processes, practices, and procedures on technical assignments

• Automate processes in the VMWare environment

• Troubleshoot production problems like performance, and runtime issues within the virtualization environment

• Address problems of systems integration, compatibility, and multiple platforms

• Evaluate and recommends application integration and testing tools

• Provide Disaster Recovery testing support

• Provide on-call support according to assigned schedule

• Document changes, policies and procedures and drawings

• Contribute to projects of various sizes and schedules

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

Qualifications & Experience

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• [Required] Excellent presentation skills including planning, material preparation and public speaking

• [Required] Clear, concise and precise written and verbal communication skills to effectively communicate with people of various backgrounds

• [Required] Negotiation skills including listening and persuasion

• [Required] Strong interpersonal, leadership, project management and mentoring skills

• [Required] Strong ability to use solution-oriented approach towards problem resolution

• [Required] Ability to work independently and with a team, be a team player

Technical Skills & Background

• [Required] Advanced technical knowledge of VMware virtualization technologies like Horizon, vROPS, SDDC Manager, VSAN, SRM, vRA, vRO etc.

• [Required] Expertise in architecting, configuring, and supporting Cisco UCS systems

• [Required] Experience working in Hyper Converged (VxRail) based technologies and develop solutions accordingly

• [Required] Expertise or establish optimized virtual environments for giant database cluster builds such as DB2 and Microsoft SQL on VMware platform

• [Required] Strong technical ability to manage orchestration aspects through API scripts and tools, enabling a consistent methodology across UCS platform

• [Required] Develop automation solutions including Infrastructure as Code approach to establish and maintain automated, integrated and continuous deployments

• [Required] Ensure Infrastructure operations are effective and optimally established and supported across all layers including server, storage, backup, monitoring, patching services and monitoring

• [Required] Knowledge and Experience in Cloud computing, VCF and VMWare in Cloud

• [Required] Familiar with using PowerCLI/Powershell to manage a VMware Environment

• [Required] Capacity planning/tracking

• [Required] Familiar with storage concepts (replication, Fiber Channel, NFS, VMFS)

• [Required] Experience with developing Disaster Recovery strategies and work with other teams within the organization and external teams to execute scheduled DR tests

• [Required] Review and recommend alternative technologies and improvements to enhance information systems to support organizational goals and present to senior management

• [Required] Create documentation (like run books) for the developed procedures and best practices

• [Required] Lead troubleshooting and recovery efforts during outages or complex issues including but not limited to performance, functionality issues etc.

Certifications

• None Required

Education & Training

• [Required] Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or related degree or equivalent experience

• [Required]