Virtualization Engineer Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Virtualization Engineer to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the day-to-day administration of VMware and vBlock environments;
- Performance and capacity management projections;
- Plan and engineer expansion of converged infrastructure;
- Deploy and test HA/BCP virtual environments for the firm;
- Provide guidance for virtualization best practices;
- Design enterprise level virtual technologies for the firm;
- Provide virtual platform system technical performance and availability recommendations;
- Create documentation for best practices in deploying Hyper converge solutions;
- Participate in the design and support of all backend infrastructure components for the virtual environment for the firm.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of related experience;
- Experience with VMware vCenter design and implementation best practices;
- 6-8 years of hands on experience with VMWare technologies;
- Good grasp of Windows and Linux operating systems;
- Thorough knowledge of setting up BCP different technologies such as Zerto, SRM and etc;
- Understanding of virtual environments with respect to proactive performance analysis and identification of potential bottlenecks;
- Ability to administer, maintain, and troubleshoot Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) attached to VMware environments;
- Ability to lead, and own projects;
- Ability to collaborate with a team working across multiple locations;
- Experience with building and maintaining high-availability (>99%) VMware environments;
- Demonstrate good judgment in solving problems as well as identifying problems in advance, and proposing solutions;
- Thorough knowledge of Active Directory;
- Extensive Virtualization Experience – design, implement, and manage virtual environments, including Datacenter cluster(s) managed by vCenter;
- Thorough understanding of high availability, SRM, fault tolerance, and other BCP/DR technologies;
- Demonstrated experience in virtualization and consolidation of server technologies, specifically VMware vSphere and ESXi Virtual Infrastructure.