Sr Systems Engineer- VMware - Veterans Sourcing Group

Job Title: Sr. Systems Engineer
Pay Rate: $58- $60/hr. W2
Duration: 9 months
Location: Richardson, TX – 100% on site, but will eventually move to (Tues/Wed/Thurs) Hybrid
Hours: Standard 8am – 5pm

• Prescreening Questions:
1. What Windows or Vmware work have you done personally in the last 6 months, not part of a team? Aside from Patching, building or configuring or migrating…we are looking for troubleshooting.
a. Tell me what YOU personally did
2. What Vmware or Windows troubleshooting have you lead, without a team in the last 1 year?
a. I am looking for a person that has risen above the patch management candidates that are out there, we need real engineers that have been placed in charge of things.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Overall maintenance, administration, monitoring, problem management for Vmware Vcenter, Vsphere infrastructure and Windows server components.
• Vsphere installation, upgrades, backup/restore, configuration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, scripting, and producing documentation
• Windows server 2008 through 2019 installation, upgrades, backup/restore, configuration, troubleshooting, performance tuning, scripting, and producing documentation
• Advanced troubleshooting experience with Vmware and Windows server products.
• Setting up and maintaining standby and secondary environments for high availability
• Backup, storage and networking troubleshooting on Vmware and Windows server platforms.
• Work closely with Support and Development Teams to ensure customer satisfaction
• Recommending and implementing approved process and tool improvements

Top Must Have Skills:

• Strong experience with Microsoft Server products
• Strong experience with VMware products
• Demonstrated experience configuring and maintaining VMware environments
• Direct feedback from manager: remove the candidates that were very siloed and only did patch management, low level server builds and very little troubleshooting. We need someone that can take on work and lead that task to completion.

Required Experience, Skills, & Technologies

• 10 years+ experience administering large Vmware environments
• Significant experience with Vcenter 6.7 and upgrading of environments
• Moving to v7 withi5 the next 12 months
• DR exercises (utilizing SRM)
• Experience in maintaining and optimizing Windows server 2008 through 2019.
• Advanced troubleshooting experience with Windows server products.
• Experience optimizing server building operations, or failover scenarios (automation)
• Expert knowledge of Cisco UCS (remote access, deployments) blades and chassis
• Experience with performance tuning, capacity planning, and optimization of VM environments
• Extensive knowledge of Active Directory in relation to VMware roles and access
• Experience with Commvault backup solutions (maintaining and optimizing)
• Experience with SDDC architectures with multiple vendors
• Experience with basic network configurations in a VMware environment
• Network troubleshooting for guest access
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple and concurrent tasks.

Nice to Have Skills:
o Powershell
o VMware certifications, Microsoft certifications
o Experience automating, scripting, and streamlining processes for efficiency and accuracy