What are the responsibilities and job description for the Virtualization Engineer position at Sparibis?
Location: Melbourne, FL
Years’ Experience: 6
Education: Bachelor’s degree required.
Clearance: Applicants must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance. United States Citizenship is required as part of the eligibility criteria to be able to obtain this type of security clearance.
Required Certifications:
- VMware Certified Professional (VCP) or Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate certification required
Key Skills:
- Leading the management of VMware, Hyper-V, or similar technologies.
- Experience as a Virtualization Lead, leading system upgrades, migrations, and continue to evolve the existing architecture
- Experience leading the installation, configuration, and maintenance of virtual machines (VMs) and virtual infrastructure across on-prem and CSP provided data centers.
Responsibilities
- Designing, building, implementing, and troubleshooting information systems hosted on VMware, AWS, and Azure.
- Planning, designing, troubleshooting and ongoing optimization of virtualization environment.
- Lead system upgrades, migrations, and continue to evolve the existing architecture
- Assists in the creation, maintenance/administration, and troubleshooting of the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE)
- Manage and balance virtual machine resources across hosts in the clusters.
- Maintains awareness of new virtualization products and administration methods.
- Lead the installation, configuration, and maintenance of virtual machines (VMs) and virtual infrastructure across on-prem and CSP provided data centers through VMware orchestration tools.
- Connect host or VM to network and storage components and configure
- Monitoring and optimizing the performance of virtual environments, ensuring efficient resource allocation.
- Diagnosing and resolving complex issues related to virtualization, including VM performance, connectivity, and security.
- Implementing and managing advanced backup and disaster recovery solutions for virtual environments.
- Ensuring the security of virtual environments by applying patches, updates, and security configurations.
- Maintaining comprehensive documentation of virtualization configurations, procedures, and policies.
- Working closely with other IT teams to support virtualization needs and integrate virtual solutions with other systems.
- Using Ansible Automation, IaC and Version Control
- Configure, troubleshoot, and design large, complex systems using RedHat Satellite servers
- Maintain operating system reliability across RHEL 8, 9, and 10.
- Providing guidance and mentorship to junior virtualization administrators and other IT staff.
- Researching and reporting on new technologies and how they provide value to the organization.
- Implementing and managing backup and disaster recovery solutions to ensure data integrity and availability.
- Travels to sites as necessary for hands-on troubleshooting and support of new system fielding.
Qualifications
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance.
- 6 years of professional experience in Virtualization administration with focus on leading VMware, Hyper-V, and other similar technologies.
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field or equivalent professional experience.
- Must be able to be onsite in Melbourne, FL Monday – Friday for project execution.
- Experience as a Virtualization Lead, leading system upgrades, migrations, and continue to evolve the existing architecture
- Experience leading the installation, configuration, and maintenance of virtual machines (VMs) and virtual infrastructure across on-prem and CSP provided data centers.
- Experience with overseeing on-prem hardware infrastructure (e.g., servers and storage), the on-prem hypervisor (Hyper-V) environment (e.g., VMWare, vSphere), and CSP infrastructure.
- Experience overseeing the installation, configuration, and maintenance of virtual machines (VMs), virtual infrastructure, and physical infrastructure (including rack mounting and hardware configuration).
- Experience monitoring the performance of virtual environments and optimizing resource allocation to ensure efficient operation.
- Experience diagnosing and resolving issues related to virtualization, including VM performance, connectivity, and security.
- Experience with the automation of IT administration and server provisioning using tools such as:
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): AWS CDK, Terraform, OpenTofu, and Puppet
- Ansible Automation: Experience with Ansible Tower and Ansible Playbooks
- Version Control: Git, GitLab, Bitbucket
- Comprehensive understanding of RedHat Satellite Linux and ability to configure, troubleshoot, and design large systems using RedHat Satellite servers.
- RHEL Deployment and Maintenance: Understanding of deployment requirements for RHEL 8, 9, and 10.
- Experience integrating infrastructure management tools with APIs to enable deployment of Infrastructure as Code integrated into CI/CD deployment pipelines.
- VMware Certified Professional (VCP) or Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate certification preferred
- Customer service driven
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Must be detail oriented