Duration: 12+ months Contract-to-Hire
# of Positions Open: 2
Compensation: $45-55/hr (conversion up to $85k/yr Base + Bonus + Stock Options + Benefits)
Location: REMOTE, however canidates MUST live within 90 miles of ANY of the following locations:
- Nashville. TN
- Cincinnati, OH
- Tampa, FL
- Atlanta, GA
- Austin, TX
- Columbus, OH
- Dallas, TX
- Berwyn, PA
*** U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor or transfer visas at this time. No Vendors/3rd parties. ***
Requirements/Responsibilities:
- Must have skills 5 years of VMWare administration as well as experience with vRA, vROps, HyperV. Knowledge of Windows, Azure and OCI helpful.
- 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).
- 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.
