CBTS has partnered with a large/global organization to identify a Virtualization Engineer in the Columbus, OH area. This role will require a hybrid work schedule of 2-3 days/wk onsite at the client headquarters. Due to the nature of the business, only USC/GC candidates at this time, and no C2c/3rd party resources
Qualified candidates should have experience with the following:
Must have skills: VMware, vRA, vROps, HyperV
Good to have skills: Windows, Azure, OCI
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Understanding of complex VMware environments, which includes VMware vSphere, vCenter Server, NSX, VRA, VRops and VMware ESXi hosts.
- Implement and maintain VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware High Availability (HA) configurations using Site Recovery Manager(SRM) to maximize uptime and resource efficiency.
- Manage VMware vSAN (Virtual SAN) for scalable and high-performance storage solutions.
- Deploy and configure VMware vSphere, including setting up ESXi hosts, creating and managing virtual machines, configuring vSAN and configuring virtual networks including vSphere Distributed switch(vds).
Years of Experience:
- 5 years in VMWare administration
- Exposure to VMWare Tanzu based containerization
- Exposure to management of virtualization and micro-segmentation, multi-tenancy ensuring secure and efficient network management.
- Exposure to other virtualization environments like Hyper-V and Nutanix
- Exposure to storage technologies like SCSI, iSCSI, EMC, VxRail management, Network technologies including pass through configuration
- Exposure to VMware tools such as VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) to analyze performance metrics and optimize resource allocation.
- Identify opportunities for closed loop automation
- Managing VMWare lifecycle management including VMware Tools and VM Hardware upgrades to ensure compatibility and enhance virtual machine performance.
- Exposure to backup of VMWare using tools like Cohesity and NetBackup
- Exposure to managing large VMWare environments spread globally with high performance requirements
- Good knowledge of ITIL practice