Systems Engineering Consultant

Job Description

Duration: 11Months Work Type: Onsite Position Description: Virtualization Compute-Description This is a Virtualization Server Hosting Engineering position in Compute Services in the client's Enterprise Platform Engineering Operations. The successful candidate will be responsible for engineering, deployment, operational administration ,and protection of global enterprise solutions to meet the Virtualization Server Hosting requirements for a variety of VMware& Red Hat infrastructure systems, line of business and third-party application needs. Job Family: Platform Engineering Consultant (Level 4) Overall 10+ years in IT development/operations/support/migrations Key Skills: OpenShift, OpenShift Virtualization, VMware and development experience, VMware, Red Hat OSV, Tekton pipelines, Git repo, Ansible, PowerShell & Yaml. Skills Required: VMware, redhat, GitHub, Tekton, Ansible, deployment, OSV, Powershell, Yaml Skills Preferred: Application Support, migration, development, service now, Jira, IT Operations, Openshift , Virtualization, VMware ESX Servers Experience Required: 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. Education Required : Engineering Graduate in computer ScienceIT or Post graduate in computer science/application. Experience Preferred: Primary Skills Preferred : 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 the client's Agile delivery concepts. Strong communication skills. Willingness to learn new technologies Good team player working with Global team Experience Preferred : VMware DCV certification Red Hat OSV certification Red Hat CSA certification CKA -Certified Kubernetes Administrator Additional Education Preferred : Supervisory Skills Required: Work effectively in a team environment. Team leader capability desired. Pairing with team members occasionally required. Primary team is located locally with other individuals distributed globally. Education Required: Bachelor's Degree Education Preferred: Certification Program