Compute Engineer III

Job Purpose:

A Virtualization Engineer is a versatile team-player involved in an enterprise implementation of multiple information technology systems. The core group specific deliverables are operations of virtualization environment (hardware and hypervisor). Responsibility for on-call /escalated support for operations of virtualized environments, included but not limited to: Server side virtualization, host based post installation scripting and troubleshooting in Ansible and PowerShell/PowerCLI. Responsibility for performance and capacity analysis for physical assets that carry virtualized infrastructure.

Essential Functions

o CBTS Virtualization, Virtual Datacenter, and infrastructure orchestration - 40%

o The subject should be a subject matter expert with and will have responsibility or participation in installation, and provisioning, hypervisor infrastructure to guest side virtualization; virtualization technologies may involve hypervisor-based technologies such as VMware.

o Orchestration technologies include OpenStack and vCloud Director

· Virtualization, storage management and migration - 10%

o The subject should be comfortable with migration of storage for guest side virtualized environments, as well as infrastructure; subject will be responsible for participating in planning and execution of storage pool optimization, live migrations with little impact to availability, and work during maintenance windows; clear understanding of NFS, FCP, ISCSI, shared SCSI locking essential; clear understanding of file systems such as XFS, EXT3, EXT4, HPFS, NTFS

· Virtualization, Virtual Data Center System Integration - 30%

o The subject should be experienced with virtualization system integration and trouble-shooting, including root cause analysis documentation

· Other and documentation - 10%

o Procedural documentation, customer documentation, process and procedural review

· On-Call support - 10%

o On-Call support for the above

Education

· Four years of College resulting in a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

· VMware VCP certification or equivalent required

· VMware VCAP certification preferred

· ITIL V3 foundations certification preferred Experience/Background

Experience

o 5+ years of experience

o PowerShell scripting, Linux engineer, Datacenter virtualization

o Basic project management Special Knowledge/Skills

o Vmware vSphere operations and installation procedures

Other

· PowerShell/PowerCLI

· Ansible

· Shell scripting, and automation of basic procedures

· Demonstrated skills in preventive maintenance, performance tuning, assist with capacity planning, all within best practice standards.

· Demonstrated skills in project management.

· Strong advocate of defining/conforming to standards for support processes and procedures

· Demonstrated skills in oral, written and interpersonal communication

· Strong team/customer focus

· Strong problem diagnostics skills

· Ability to work and act independently and as part of a team

· High level of energy and enthusiasm with the ability to thrive in a rapidly changing environment

· Ability to manage multiple simultaneous tasks, client relationships and expectations