Sr VMware Engineer

 Senior VMWare Engineer Requirements:
Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical degree; six years related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience
4 or more years of professional experience in VMware services and tools
Direct experience in bare-metal deployments of VMware infrastructure
Direct experience with building and administering multiple VMware products across multiple remote locations and data centers
2 or more years experience in programming using one or more of the following: Java, C++, Perl, Python, Ruby, or advanced Shell scripting

Primary Responsibilities:
Act in a technical leadership capacity: Mentor junior engineers and new team members, and apply technical expertise to challenging programming and design problems
Develop highly available, fault-tolerant VMware infrastructure designs and solutions
Establishes standards and guidelines for the design & development, tuning, deployment and maintenance of VMware infrastructure, including backups, upgrade, and automation processes
Proactively identify and recommend updates to software or architecture as necessary before reaching capacity limitations
Develop automated responses to incidents so that manual intervention is not necessary
Champion system metrics (MTBF, MTTR, etc.) and convey them to decision makers on a regular basis
Manage priority of issues and tickets and participate in rotating an on-call schedule with other members of the team, including weekends