VMware Engineer

Our client is currently seeking a VMware Engineer

Responsibilities

• Participate in the planning, design, and implementation of infrastructure projects to ensure their successful deployment.
• Participate in architecture discussions and review with various IT and business groups. Ensure supportability requirements and standards are followed to support the environment.
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and provide technical direction to team members.
• Author documents that improve governance and librarianship with network-related architectures.
• Develop and implement new standards, processes and procedures for network and system deployment, maintenance, and support, that improve governance and and system-related documentation.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards, regulations, and security best practices.
• Collaborate with technical teams, such as security, development, and IT operations, to ensure seamless integration of infrastructure into the organization's overall technology ecosystem.
• Perform network-related data backups and disaster recovery operations.
• Working with field techs and venders to support our infrastructure in 1000 remotes offices across the United States.
• Monitor and improve performance of the infrastructure by researching, evaluating, and recommending new technology products and services.
• Research and recommend innovative and where possible automated approaches to configuration and applications that enable the architecture. Identify approaches that leverage existing resources and provide economies of scale.
• Participate in all phases of development life-cycle environments including development, test, staging and production infrastructure systems, applications, servers, and cloud services.
• Skilled in determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Manage relationships with vendor support of multiple systems to troubleshoot and investigate the root causes of performance and failure issues.
• Continuously update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications and white papers.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in MIS or Computer Science or applicable work experience in lieu of degree, +4 years of professional experience is required.
• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in network/system engineering and deployment, with at least 3 years of experience leading a team of network and system engineers.
• Experience and support of virtualized Windows servers.
• Experience with routing, SDWAN, switching, enterprise-wide wireless network support and internet circuits.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and resolve complex network issues.
• Excellent leadership and team management skills, with the ability to provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical information to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Advanced experience with packet capture and analysis, span/mirror port strategy and related network monitoring tools.
• Knowledge of enterprise wireless technologies and security.

Preferred

• Experience using scripting languages for automation purposes.
• Experience with Aruba Central
• Experience with Logic Monitor
• Experience with VCenter
• Experience with ESXI
• Advanced knowledge of Active Directory and Windows domain environments.
• Experience with network-oriented enterprise storage solutions (iSCSI, FCoE)
• AWS Associate level certification.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Knowledge of electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
• Strong background in network design, implementation, and maintenance.
• Ability to coach and mentor other team members
• Ability to look beyond current issues and prepare and plan for long term, end game solutions.
• Ability to identify complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, statistics, and their applications.
• Strong skills in communication, both written and verbal.
• Ability to analyze and interpret performance reports and recommend course of action.
• Ability to monitor systems for anomalies that require investigation and resolution.
• Advanced knowledge of disk size formatting, cluster sizing, and appropriate applications.
• Advanced knowledge of Active Directory and Windows domain environments.
• Intermediate knowledge of MS SQL service configuration and load balancing.
• Advanced knowledge of share and NTFS permissions.
• Intermediate knowledge of Linux commands, SSH, and SCP.
• Understanding of general networking principles pertaining to a large enterprise WAN environment.
• Ability to take initiative and work independently, and work effectively with individuals belonging to all levels within the organization.
• Ability to effectively communicate with clarity and brevity.