VMware / Virtualization Engineer
Description:
Glocomms is seeking a virualization engineer on behalf of leading financial services firm. VMware is truly a business-critical platform for the firm.
THe ideal candidate would be a VMware engineer that is able to gather business requirements, evaluate the current state of our infrastructure and then design and implement changes to our infrastructure that result in a more consistent, stable, secure, monitorable and performant platform. The ideal candidate has experience working in high performance VMware environments and in particular can work efficiently with storage and networking teams to design solutions and troubleshoot issues.
Your Opportunity:
The VMware engineer is hands on; not only can this person communicate directly with users of the platform to understand requirements they can then translate those requirements into actual solutions that they build and configure. Self-documenting, version controlled code and configuration are preferable to wiki pages and written documentation. It is expected that the VMware engineer will help establish a set of service level indicators (SLIs) and agreed upon service level objectives (SLOs) and operate the environment in order to meet those objectives.
Your Skills and Talents:
- 10+ years of experience in an engineering role
- Experience and established track record of automation and eliminating toil
- Experience operating under the SRE model; defining SLIs and SLOs and monitoring them
- Experience across full suite of VMware VM technologies including vCenter, vSphere, ESX, SRM
- Experience with enterprise networks including IP, Multicast, Fibre Channel, FCOE and familiarity with the scaling challenges of each
- Experience using storage technologies including local, remote file (nfs) and remote block (vSAN and PMAX)
- Strong ability in at least one programming language, preferably at least one of Go, Python or PowerShell