Senior Systems Engineer

Implement and architect server/systems infrastructure in a large 24x7 environment.

Implement from design diagrams a highly available and scalable system infrastructure.

Translate a design concept into a working diagram, highlighting individual hardware/software components required to integrate the project into existing infrastructure.

Manage work completion to engineering milestones by ensuring that development, integration, test, and production environments are all in sync; implement revision change control.

Support and maintain communication and project workflow between development group of architecture and engineering teams and the operations/implementation group.

Experience with and understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, OpenStack, and VMware.

Advanced experience with the following VMware concepts: VMware vRealize Operations Manager, vDistributed Switches, and vMotion/Storage vMotion.

Create, maintain, and deploy templates.

Create clones and customization profiles.

High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).

Host profiles.

Install and configure Dell blades chassis and servers (rack mounted and blades).

Requirements

1. Minimum 10 years of experience in virtualization technologies.
2. VMWare engineer with vRealize Operations (VROPS) experience.
3. Minimum 10 years of experience in networking industry.
4. Bachelor of Science (or higher) in Computer Science or equivalent.
5. Experience with Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.x - 6.5, Redhat Deployments using Kickstart installations, and Redhat Clustering configuration and deployments.
6. Experience with Oracle Linux 5.6 - 6.4 and Oracle RAC cluster technology.
7. Cloud Computing: AWS, VMWare, and OpenStack.
8. Network bonding and VLAN Trunking.
9. Dell and HP rack and blade systems.
10. Experience with the deployment and management of storage hardware.
11. 3PAR, EMC, Isilon IQ, iDRAC configuration and management, and NetApp NAS appliances.
12. SAN hardware and technologies: EMC/Brocade, SAN Directors, Fibre-Attached storage, iSCSI, RAID levels, and best practices.
13. Linux administration to include networking, storage, and multipathing configurations.
14. Familiarity with NTP, DNS, NFS, Load Balancing, Fiber Channel zoning concepts, Brocade administration, NPIV and Access Gateway Mode, and HTTP servers and understanding of content delivery/CDN integration.
15. Brocade Load Balancers, clustering software, auto-failover, and Ethernet bonding.

Additional Information

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