Description
This fast growing industry leader has an immediate 6+ month contract opening (with chance for conversion) in Richardson, TX for a Cloud Operations Engineer. Will be responsible for providing administration, support, and maintenance of customer Infrastructure Platforms within a 24x7x365 environment with shift coverage. Will maintain data center and monitoring equipment, and perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes. Will perform regular security monitoring to identify possible intrusions. Will perform daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes or disks are created, and media is recycled. Will create, change, and delete user accounts. Will implement, administrate and troubleshoot common TCP/IP based services, including NTP, DNS, SSL, SSH, services, etc. Will assist with process maturation, development, technical standards creation, and drive operational excellence through consistent delivery and best practices. Will include the core fundamentals of day-to-day operations, based off the ITIL v3 methodology.
This position requires:
- 2+ years experience as a systems administrator or server engineer.
- 2+ years experience with VMware ESXi, ESX, vCenter 4.x, or vCenter 5.x, including the planning, deployment, configuration and administration of host systems and virtual machines.
- 2+ years of UNIX or Linux experience.
- 2+ years experience working with enterprise server platforms (Cisco, HP, SUN, Dell, IBM).
- 2+ years experience working with enterprise storage platforms (EMC, NetApp).
- 2+ years working directly with the design, planning, implementation and administration of MS Windows 2008/R2 server systems (virtual and physical.)
- 4+ years of IT Service Management, data center, server, storage management, virtualization, Citrix, networking, systems management, and/or project management.
- Strong technical experience with industry standard x86_X64 server hardware, including disk storage subsystems, RAID, SAN and networking hardware strongly desired.
Preferred:
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification.
- VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certification.
- EMCSA, EMCTA Storage Certifications.
- Cisco UCS experience.
- ITIL v3 Foundation experience.
- Experience with MS Windows Server networking, configuration, management and application support.
- Client will not accept subcontractors
- VMWARE
- STORAGE AREA NETWORK
- Windows
- UNIX
- Linux
- Systems Administration
- DATA CENTER
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- and Life Insurance for Full-time W2 Consultants. Supplemental Disability and Long-Term Care Insurance
- Dependent Care Assistance. 401(k) with Roth feature. Free E-learning Courses.