Senior Infrastructure Specialist with VMware and/or Nutanix Hypervisor knowledge to support, troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades and expansion

Our client is looking for an Infrastructure Specialist with VMware and/or Nutanix Hypervisor knowledge to support, troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades and expansion.

Must Have's:

• 10+ years of experience as a Infrastructure Specialist experience
• 3 years virtual infrastructure experience
• Configuration management utilizing Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, Chef, Desired State Configuration (DSC)
• Virtualization Technologies using VMware/Nutanix/Hyper V (MS suite)
• Provide direction and advice pertaining to design and configuration of converged infrastructure
• Vcenter or Nutanix tools
• Storage Technologies using Dell/EMC and Netapp
• Dell/EMC and Netapp replication technologies
• Protocols including CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, FC

Nice to Have's:

• Cisco Networking Products
• Cluster experience (SLES, RH would be good)
• Networking technologies including, but not limited to TCP/IP, DNS, Routing Protocols, Switching
• Cisco UCS Servers
• VMWare Hypervisor as well as some UCS bare-metal)
• Strong Communications Skills, both verbal and written
• Demonstrated experience documenting environments, runbooks, etc.
• Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and automation technologies
• Infrastructure as Code platforms: Terraform, Packer, Azure Resource Manager/CloudFormation templates
• Enterprise service bus platforms

Responsibilities:

• Individuals are responsible for Linux operational support, troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades and expansion, on-call rotation. In addition, they will provide support to provisioning/operational staff, as well as work closely with the architecture group in design support and validation of new designs and installations. This position will lead the containerization effort for Datacenter services.
• Provide direction and advice pertaining to capacity planning - Provide direction and advice pertaining to future installations and design - Provide direction to automate and orchestrate future use of Linux environments (Tanium, Orchestrator, automation suites)
• Knowledge and use of containerization platforms (Docker, OpenShift)
• Scripting languages (PowerShell, bash, python)