VMWARE/VDI Horizon Engineer

Georgia  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Job Description:

Our client is seeking VMWARE/VDI Horizon Engineer.

Position Summary:

  • Strategic development - understand customers and their requirements, and assists in developing technology roadmaps with a customer first focus to meet and anticipate future needs
  • Technology lifecycle management - design, implementation and upgrades for all VMWare and VMWare View software pieces. Identify emerging technologies and features, pilot them in a structured fashion to identify applicability to company user needs, introduces, manages and governs as a service, and migrates/retires as appropriate
  • Team Oriented - work on a team with fellow engineers to deliver solutions
  • Communication - develop and deliver communications at all levels as necessary to advance the development and adoption of the services
  • Process development - Participates in the development and implementation of VMWare and VDI-related operational procedures and defines the standards for virtual desktops from the infrastructure platform design to imaging and delivery to customers throughout the business
  • Technical support - Assist with analysis, administration and support of thin clients, virtual and physical desktops and work the operational support teams to transition standards and processes and act as an escalation point for complex technical problems/issues
  • Assists in ensuring compliance with security policies and procedures

Requirements:

VMWARE HORIZON VIEW Enterprise 7.x

  • Must have and be able to demonstrate experience engineering VDI solutions in a large environment - 5+ years experience
  • Must have skills in maintaining and sustaining VDI operations environment in a large environment - 5+ years experience
  • Must have excellent troubleshooting skills
  • Must have root cause analysis mindset and a willingness to solve business as well as technical problems
  • Must have VMware App Volumes (engineering, delivery, and management)
  • Must have VDI UEM/persona management experience and implementation
  • Must have Virtual Desktop Administration using VMware View
  • Must have VMWare View Security Server experience
  • Must have AD/GPO, DNS, DHCP experience
  • Must have Windows Desktop Administration Skills - Microsoft Windows 7 or greater - 3+ years' experience required
  • Must have VDI Just-n-Time Desktop Provisioning using VMware Instant Clone
  • Familiar with Windows Optimization for desktop images
  • Familiar with Thin Client desktop hardware and connectivity
  • Familiar with persona management

VMWARE ENTERPRISE

  • Must have experiencing in capacity management
  • Must be able to produce metrics and make informed decisions
  • Must have experience in VMWare ESXi/vCenter management 4+ years
  • Must have experience with Distributed switches
  • Must have experience with VMWare product patching and upgrades (lifecycle management)
  • Must be able to setup HA/DRS/Fault Tolerance
  • Must have VROP experience
  • Infrastructure engineering and management experience using VMware vSphere 5.5 or greater

OTHER SKILLS

  • Enjoys a fast paced, evolving environment
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Able to work and interact with others in a structured/team environment with consensus-based culture
  • Accuracy and attention to detail, must have organizational skills
  • Independent problem solver with troubleshooting, decision making and analytical skills
  • Requires limited supervision, self-starter, strong time management skills
  • Flexibility and adaptability to handle competing work demands
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Familiar with Windows Server OS 2008R2 and beyond.
  • High level understanding of server, SAN storage, iSCSI
  • High level understanding of networking components (VLAN, Load-Balancers, Firewalls, VPN, etc)

Education:

- VMWare Certifications

- PERFORMS BACKUP ROLES

  • Perform backup duties related to Storage administration
  • Perform backup duties related to virtual backup systems

Nice to Have:

  • PowerCLI and or PowerShell scripting
  • Cloud experience either AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform
  • SSL and other security standards.
  • Familiar with Antivirus solution for VDI
  • Familiar with monitoring and alerting tools
Start date
n.a
Duration
12 months
From
ESG Consulting
Published at
22.02.2019
Project ID:
1724636
Contract type
Freelance
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