VMWare Engineer

Job Description

• Hands on experience Infrastructure-As-Code, automating deployments, cluster management, and systems security within a CI/CD Pipeline Experience with VMware on Cloud (VMC) on AWS
• Experience with VMWARE infrastructure in a very large enterprise environment
• Experience in Kubernetes regarding containers / Microservices principles
• Disciplined practice of producing, maintaining, and versioning system documentation
• VMware infrastructure build experience, particularly on deploying ESXi 7.0, STANDALONE VCF EXPEREINCE
• Experience of working at an enterprise level and scale environments
• Executing existing automations in vRA
• Ability to follow defined build process, and escalate to tech lead for any unknown issues.
• Familiar with DELL, HPE, Lenovo server hardware
• Ability to identify hardware issues and raise necessary tickets
• Understanding of basic network technologies, VLANS, subnets, and resolving connectivity issues.
• Ability to execute within a customer-centric environment.
• Good analytical skills with excellent oral and written communications skills.
• Knowledge of IT control and project management practices and experience working across large environments.
• Working knowledge in an infrastructure project management.
• Understanding of virtualized environments and how VMware vSphere (ESX), the VC component and 3rd party products work with each other.
• Working knowledge of the VMware Replicator or any other migration products.
• Work with peers and stakeholders across multiple time zones to ensure new product releases are deployed
• Work collaboratively with internal tech teams to develop, document, and maintain build, deployment, and configuration standards
• Coordinate and perform in-depth testing, including end-user reviews, after upgrades, deployments and new systems
• Deploy a greenfield instance of vSphere 7 with vSAN, and vRealize Automation 7 across multiple datacenters
• Create and maintain integrations between vRealize Automation and internal systems
• Work with internal IT & Engineering teams to ensure that vRealize Automation contains required catalog items
• Utilize vRealize Orchestrator to assist in deployment, configuration, and management of catalog items in vRealize Automation and vSphere
• Install, configure, maintain images, templates and Manage vSphere AutoDeploy
• Install and Manage both vRealize Operations Manager and vRealize Log Insight
• Manage patches, maintenance and upgrades of vSphere and vRealize products
• Deploy hardware globally via Dell OpenManage
• Participate in off hours on-call rotation
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Able to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical staff and managers.
• Self-starter, with strong organizational and task management skills.Must be able to insert themselves into an ongoing project and assertively get information they need to be successful.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and collaborate with various teams to drive progress and achieve consensus