USC/GC
Zoom
Remote
This person MUST be able to convert after 6 months and must be close enough where he/she can come onsite 5% of the time (client will NOT pay for expenses).
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County
Available day to start (must be a Monday):
Approved Counites Remote, but "Local" To Corporate
Bosque - 1.5hrs
Henderson - 2hrs.
Palo Pinto - 1.5hrs
Collin - 1hr
Hill - 1hr
Parker - 1hr
Comanche - 2hrs
Hood - 1hr
Rains - 1.5hrs
Cook - 1.25hrs
Hopkins - 1.75hrs
Rockwall - .75hrs
Dallas - .5hrs
Hunt - 1.5hrs
Somervell - 1.25hrs
Denton - .75hrs
Jack - 1.75hrs
Tarrant - Corporate
Ellis - 1hr
Johnson - 1hr
Van Zandt - 1.5hrs
Erath - 1.75hrs
Kaufman - 1hr
Wise - 1.25hrs
Fannin - 1.75hrs
Montague - 1.5hrs
Grayson - 1.5hrs
Navarro - 1.25hrs
Distance from Arlington,
Texas**
Skill set for need: Server / VMware / NSX Engineer
We are looking for someone who has VMware and NSX (Installations / Administration) experience.
Position Summary
Maintain and manage the vSphere/vCenter virtualization environment to ensure reliable operation, configuration, and optimal utilization of the managed ESX environment. Responsible for server hardware support, server OS support, server provisioning, patch management, software upgrade, and project support. Products include Microsoft server platforms, HP/Dell servers, VMware, Zerto, Ivanti, Cylance, and MS Azure. Oversees server initiatives and workload to ensure service delivery goals are met. Mentors level I & II engineers.
Essential Functions
Solution Architecture/Engineering/Strategy:
- Design and implement a highly available, enterprise class visualization environment.
- Understand industry best practices regarding security, (CIS, PCI, etc.) and incorporate recommendations into all designs when appropriate.
- Serve as coordinator with backup administrators to design, implement, and assist in maintaining enterprise backup solution.
- Assist SAN administrators with virtualization design and storage requirements, provide forecasting of storage need to inform future storage purchases.
- Understand networking requirements and communicate needs to networking team to ensure best-practice configuration of virtual environment network connectivity.
- Design and implement processes for regular environment maintenance utilizing automation where applicable.
- Design and maintain lab environment to facilitate testing for both virtualization infrastructure as well as any hosted business applications.
Server Core Maintenance Updates
- Review and periodically update virtualization environment documentation including configuration settings, backups and diagrams.
- Coordinate and assist with deployment of patches for hardware, hypervisor, and guest OS layers. Develop process to enable team members to successfully apply patches.
- Periodically review security best practices and make recommendations as applicable. Develop process around auditing permissions and access to virtualization environment.
- Perform testing of all patches and upgrades to virtualization environment prior to implementation.
Administrative Skills, Planning, Documentation, Training, Leadership, Customer Service, Mentoring and Motivation.
Project Support
- Provide infrastructure support and guidance to various IT projects.
- Collaborate with architects to identify, evaluate and recommend technical solutions within and across systems.
- Design solutions within the context of the available infrastructure, taking into account scalability, availability, reliability, stability, security, and performance.
- Implement solutions architecture by performing all infrastructure related activities needed to specify, prepare, document, and create the necessary production and non-production environments suitable for deployment of an application.
- Interface with Enterprise Infrastructure and Database teams to coordinate delivery of solution components.
- Deploy applications as requested by development teams and assist with problem resolution and performance tuning activities.
- Serve as primary SME for all critical and escalated incidents involving virtualization infrastructure.
This role will provide a combination of virtual and onsite support to multiple Texas Health locations including our hospitals and clinics.
Qualifications
Education: Major/Area Study: Yrs. Exp. Details Pref/Req BS/BA deg. Comp Sci, IT, Bus 4 years Relevant exp. in X IT, Bus, related field
in lieu of degree
Years of Exp Details Pref/Req
5 Years Exp w/ tech knowledge of MS & Linux OS's X and
AD; or virtualization Hypervisors.
4 Years Exp. w/ VMware, Cylance, Zerto, Ivanti, MS X
platforms
Skills And Abilities
Written and verbal communication skills, productivity s/w, complex problem solving, leadership, organization/prioritization.