Title: Virtualization Engineer
Location: Charlotte, NC - Hybrid
Duration/Type of Job: 12+ months
Key Responsibilities:
- Hyper-V Design architecture, Design and maintenance.
- Recommending and instituting optimizations to the Hyper-V virtualization environment
- Interpreting Hyper-V performance trends for capacity planning purposes.
- Hardware monitoring and Alerting
- Evaluation of new tools and methodologies to better manage the virtualization infrastructure.
- Heavily Involved in automation and scripting of processes
- Partnering with the Active Directory Operations team to implement changes to the Active Directory virtualization infrastructure.
- Creation, Documentation and Deployment of Baselines
Qualifications:
- Experience with Windows Server 2022, 2019, 2016, and 2012 \ Active Directory 2012R2, 2016 and 2019.
- Extensive experience with Hyper-V and SCVMM.
- Extensive Experience in the creation and development of PowerShell scripts for automation of systems administration.
- Solid understanding of Hyper-V performance analysis tools and methods.
- Hands on experience tuning Hyper-V for a data center environment
- Knowledge of developing/maintaining Windows OS builds
- Experience engineering, designing, and testing storage (i.e. S2D, etc.) and networks for a virtual environment.
- Experience with HP hardware particularly around planning and deploying firmware updates and ILO integration/automation
- Experience developing policies, procedures, and standards pertaining to the Hyper-V infrastructures.
- Experience creating technical and process documentation.
- Superior problem solving, design, and analytical skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to convert concepts and technical aspects into easy to understand/follow processes.
- Ability to quickly shift between varying activities without loss of productivity
- Architecture experience with a global 2016 Active Directory infrastructure, at a senior level.
- Knowledge of the internetworking of clients and Active Directory (name resolution, Kerberos \ NTLM Authentication, etc.)
- Working Knowledge of Windows Technologies (e.g., Storage Spaces, BitLocker, Windows Firewall, clustering)
- Solid understanding or network technologies (e.g., VLANs and Subnets, Routing, IPsec).
- Solution design, capacity planning, and performance tuning experience
- Working Knowledge of Microsoft SQL technologies (SSRS, SSIS, and T-SQL queries).
- Experience with PKI & certificates.
- Experience with DMZ and secure communications
- Knowledge of IPsec communications and OS firewall settings
- Familiarity with reading network traces.
- Basic project management
