Virtualization Engineer Job Description

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.