Education Required
Engineering Graduate in computer Science /IT or Post graduate in computer science/application.Preferred:Master's Degree
Additional Qualification/certification Preferred
- VMware DCV certification
- Red Hat OSV certification
- Red Hat CSA certification
- CKA – Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Primary Skills Required:
Ansible, Python, Linux, VMware ESX Servers, Red Hat, Storage Capacity Management, GitHub, Yaml, Communications, Windows Servers, API, Kubernetes, Docker, MSSQL, IBM Websphere Application Server, OSV, CI/CD, Storage Management, git, Network Protocols & Standards, Tekton, Microsoft Windows & OpenShift.
Responsibilities
Experience Required: Technical Qualifications:
- Overall 10+ years in IT development/operations/support/migrations
- 5+ years of experience with OpenShift Virtualization/automation - Knowledge about containers/pods - Deep insight about K8s - Virtual Machine management - Knowledge about PVCs and Operators
- 3+ Years of experience with Tekton Pipelines for Automation
- 5+ years of experience with Git repo mgmt. and usage.
- 3+ years of experience with Argo CD knowledge
- 3+ years of creating/managing Ansible playbooks
- 3+ years of PowerShell, Ansible & Yaml scripting
- 3+ years of managing Dockers
- 3+ Years of experience with VMWare vSphere ESXi, vCenter, vROPS
- 3+Years of experience working with VMware & Red Hat Server Infrastructure server hardware and related network components.
- 3+ Years of experience working in a Global/Large VMware environment.
- Infrastructure Experience with servers, network, storage, database, and backups.
- Experience in SQL Server, WebSphere, Windows OS, Linux OS.
- Familiar with PowerCLI and API calls via code.
Additional Experience Preferred:Experience Required
- Basic Qualifications:
- Virtual server computing infrastructure knowledge.
- Scripting experience with PowerShell, Ansible & Yaml
- Enterprise Datacenter server hosting server experience or Hosting Infrastructure.
- Windows server or Linux operating system.
- Ability to work with a variety of cross functional teams to support deployment to remote locations.
- Proven track record of organizing and leading projects involving VMware/Red Hat or related infrastructure technologies for a large enterprise.
- Exceptional technical writing skills (run books, DR plans, platform architecture, etc.)
- Familiar with Ford Agile delivery concepts.
- Strong communication skills.
- Willingness to learn new technologies
- Good team player working with Global team
Qualifications
Primary Skills Required Responsibilities:
- Architect/design and support the installation, and administration of virtualization VMware & Red Hat OSV suite of products.
- Responsible for the entire lifecycle of the technologies globally including infrastructure security vulnerability patching, planning, designing, implementation, maintenance, upgrades and decommissioning of hardware and software.
- Engineer, test and document procedures, monitoring, logging, disaster recovery process and security policies and guidelines
- Demonstrates knowledge of a broad range of hardware and software products.
- Research industry best practices and trends.
- Provide operational support of all global infrastructure hosting solution on VMware & Red Hat OSV server platforms.
- Provide consulting services to OS support teams and application teams as required for performance review and production outage root cause analysis.
- Global deployment of VMware & Red Hat infrastructure platform server components - ESXi, vCenter, vRops, Red Hat OSV, Red Hat migrations, Red Hat Operators
- Global deployment of security vulnerability patches on VMware infrastructure platform server components (ESXi, vCenter, vRops)
- Lead or participate in server engineering projects (e.g. automation, shared virtualization farms, capacity on demand, technology refresh, etc.)
- Lead or participate in server operations projects (e.g. ESX host upgrades, vCenter upgrades, affinity rule rollout, VM resource adds, VM restores, etc.)
- ProvideL1 – L3 level support to Operations teams for virtual machine related issues.
- Participate L1-L2 off-hour on-call rotation once :every 2 months.
- Support VMware server platform field testing.
- Support HPE Synergy/ProLiant iLO and firmware field testing.
- Develop and maintain Operational Documentation.
- Develop automation for day-2 operations in support of server compute infrastructure.
