What are the responsibilities and job description for the VMWare Operations Specialist with Security Clearance position at DCI Solutions?
DCI Job Requirement for: VMWare Operations Specialist
Location: Charlston, SC Job Description:
Location: Charlston, SC Job Description:
- Serve as a VMware Operations Specialist
- Responsible for the ongoing performance and security of VMware environments
- After implementation and handover to operations
- Administer and support VMware environments, including:
- vCenter Server, ESXi hosts, clusters, datastores, VMs, templates, etc.
- Provide troubleshooting for a variety of incidents, including involving:
- Availability, performance, capacity, connectivity, host failures, VM issues, etc.
- Perform root-cause analysis
- Contribute to problem-management activities, corrective actions, prevention plans
- Plan and execute approved changes, including:
- Host maintenance, patching, upgrades, configuration updates, and migrations
- Monitor platform health, capacity, performance, alarms, and operational trends
- Identify risks before they affect business services
- Support DRS, vMotion, storage virtualization, disaster-recovery
- Coordinate with storage and network teams to investigate:
- Latency, multipathing, VLAN, routing, MTU, and connectivity issues
- Maintain operational documentation, procedures, architecture records, etc.
- Validate backup, restore, replication, and recovery processes
- Support activities for the virtualization platform, including:
- Vulnerability remediation, security hardening, access reviews, and audits
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident retrospectives
- Mentor junior administrators Qualifications:
- 5 years of hands-on virtualization experience in enterprise environments
- Including supporting VMware environments in a production operations role
- Strong, hands-on experience with the following:
- VMware vSphere, vCenter Server, vMotion, ESXi
- Clusters, HA, DRS
- Virtual networking, and virtual storage
- Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure incidents
- Across compute, storage, networking, operating systems, and applications
- Experience with change management, incident management, and problem management
- Working knowledge of scripting or automation, such as:
- Power CLI, PowerShell, Python, or REST APIs
- Experience supporting the following:
- Patching, monitoring, and backups
- Lifecycle management
- Disaster recovery, and security remediation Preferred Qualifications:
- VMware Certified Professional or higher, such as VCP-DCV or VCAP-DCV
- Experience with
- VMware Aria or VMware Cloud environments
- vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, HCX
- Familiarity with enterprise storage platforms
- SAN/NAS technologies, IP networking, Linux, and Windows Server
- Experience with observability, configuration-management, IaC, or automation platforms
- ITIL certification or equivalent experience with structured IT service management
- Experience operating in regulated, highly available, or global enterprise environments Required: US Citizenship Job Type: Full-time Salary: $120,000-$150,000
Salary : $120,000 - $150,000