VMware UCS Systems Engineer

Illinois  ‐ Onsite
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*This is a 6+ month contract role*

Prestigious Fortune 500 Company is currently seeking a VMware Systems Engineer with UCS experience. Candidate will be responsible for the design, implementation and support of the VMware infrastructure for the corporate campus in Chicago and field locations around the country. You will define, maintain, communicate, and implement standards consistent with established architecture and strategy.

In this role, you will be part of the VMware and Cisco UCS Team and will work closely with the following teams:

  • Open Systems, Windows Server, and various others to provide a virtual platform for RHEL, Windows, and appliances using VMware ESXi .
  • Network and Storage teams to create/support the virtual platform
  • Desktop Support as part of supporting the overall virtual desktop infrastructure
  • Onsite 24/7 Enterprise Operations Center to enable them to provide level 1 support.
  • Project Management Office to create high-level resource plans used to staff projects.
  • Enterprise Architecture to create capability roadmaps and perform vendor evaluations
  • Team members who are SME's for our Cisco UCS implementation
  • Various application teams as part of performance evaluation and tuning

Outside of ESXi the Team utilizes other software products such as VMware vCOPs to manage the virtual infrastructure performance and capacity, vCenter Orchestrator to automate routine VMware tasks and the provisioning of Windows and RHEL systems, and will soon deploy and support Veeam Backup as the primary mechanism for backing-up all virtual machines.

Qualifications:

As a VMware Systems Engineer Lead, you should have 5+ years progressive x86 server, VMware, and either RHEL or Windows experience. 2+ years experience with Cisco UCS is also required. In addition, you should have a Bachelor's Degree in a related technical field or similar discipline.

  • Ability to design and implement an enterprise-wide virtual infrastructure using ESXi v5
  • Ability to design and implement an enterprise-wide Cisco UCS solution
  • vSphere and vCenter
  • Distributed virtual switch configuration
  • HA, DRS, server and storage vMotion
  • SAN and disk configuration and troubleshooting
  • Network configuration and troubleshooting
  • Capacity management and system tuning
  • Experience with vSphere Auto Deploy
  • VMware Horizon View
  • Ability to lead a technical project team to design new solutions
  • Ability to interface with project managers to provide plans and estimates for complex tasks
  • Ability to manage demand in concurrent projects to plan
  • Ability to instill quality in every aspect of the job function
Start date
n.a
Duration
6months +
(extension possible)
From
Request Technology-Craig Johnson
Published at
22.01.2015
Project ID:
838844
Contract type
Freelance
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