Storage and Virtualization Engineer

Client Name: City of New York

Contract Length (in weeks): 52 weeks To provide support for the migration of Cybershift from its current cloud implementation to in-house, on-premise client servers. The Virtualization Engineer will be responsible for:

Overseeing the design, implementation, operation, and security of the server, storage, backup, hyper-converged hardware, and VMware SDDC software environments hosting the Clients Cybershift system.

Monitoring and effectively troubleshooting and maintaining web, data, and service servers, connections to digital time clocks, and associated software to ensure optimal availability.

Designing and implementing storage and backup architecture solutions, load balancing, server clustering, data replication, and configuration management.

Automating infrastructure configuration and deployment tasks when required.

OUTLINE OF RESPONSIBILITIES

Leads, develops, configures, maintains, supports, and optimizes all new and existing storage, hyper-converged, and server hardware and VMware SDDC software. Recommends hardware and server requirements and builds application environments.

Plans, oversees, and documents all aspects of assigned project; works closely with upper management and other departments to ensure that the scope and direction of this project is on schedule.

Provides senior level solutions for the development of complete architecture according to business requirements and provides automation solution specific to virtualization implementations based on executive-level IT strategies.

Confirms the conformance of applications, components, and services to established standards. Ensures compliance with architecture standards and guidelines throughout the application development lifecycle.

Performs numerous assessments, designs application-specific solution, and implements multi-phased, complex migration project.

Develops and maintains IT architecture diagrams of enterprise, business, data, security and/or technology architectures for IT solutions, concepts, and strategies to meet business requirements for target audiences.

Develops, implements, provisions, and troubleshoots storage, server, and virtualization infrastructure.

Provides performance and capacity management/projections.

Requirements

MANDATORY MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

The successful candidate must have minimally achieved the following level of experience:

8+ years of experience working in Hyper-Converged compute environments, multi-tiered storage architectures, and all aspects of component connectivity.

8+ years of experience of working with Enterprise Storage solutions (Dell EMC VPLEX, VxRail, VxRack, vSAN, ScaleIO, Pure storage, Rubrik) design, implementation, and administration.

8+ years of experience in hands-on configuration and design knowledge of VMware SDDC software stack.

8+ years of experience in hands-on configuration and design knowledge of PowerShell and Azure ARM templates and Azure CLI.

PREFERABLE QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s Degree or a Master’s degree in computer science from an accredited college.

Prior education industry/project experience.

Strong oral, written, and presentation skills; ability to communicate in a credible and confident manner at all levels in the organization in clear, concise language.

Experience in multiple hardware and software environments; comfortable with complex heterogeneous systems environments.

Exposure to Cisco ACI and other application-level provisioning and hosting technologies.