Virtualization Engineer

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider throughout India and many other countries in the world. The below clientis a global company with shared ideals and a deep sense of family. From our earliest days as a pioneer of modern transportation, we have sought to make the world a better place – one that benefits lives, communities and the planet

Job Title: Virtualization Engineer

Location: Chennai

Duration: 11 Months

Work Type: Onsite

Notice period: Immediate Only

Position Description:

Virtualization Compute-Description

• This is a Virtualization Server Hosting Engineering position in Compute Services in the client's Enterprise Platform Engineering Operations.
• The successful candidate will be responsible for engineering, deployment, operational administration ,and protection of global enterprise solutions to meet the Virtualization Server Hosting requirements for a variety of VMware& Red Hat infrastructure systems, line of business and third-party application needs.

Job Family:

• Platform Engineering Consultant (Level 4) Overall 10+ years in IT development/operations/support/migrations

Key Skills:

• OpenShift, OpenShift Virtualization, VMware and development experience, VMware, Red Hat OSV, Tekton pipelines, Git repo, Ansible, PowerShell & Yaml.

Skills Required:

• VMware, redhat, GitHub, Tekton, Ansible, deployment, OSV, Powershell, Yaml

Skills Preferred:

• Application Support, migration, development, service now, Jira, IT Operations, Openshift , Virtualization, VMware ESX Servers

Experience Required:

• Architect/design and support the installation, and administration of virtualization VMware & Red Hat OSV suite of products.
• Responsible for the entire lifecycle of the technologies globally including infrastructure security vulnerability patching, planning, designing, implementation, maintenance, upgrades and decommissioning of hardware and software.
• Engineer, test and document procedures, monitoring, logging, disaster recovery process and security policies and guidelines
• Demonstrates knowledge of a broad range of hardware and software products.
• Research industry best practices and trends.
• Provide operational support of all global infrastructure hosting solution on VMware & Red Hat OSV server platforms.
• Provide consulting services to OS support teams and application teams as required for performance review and production outage root cause analysis.
• Global deployment of VMware & Red Hat infrastructure platform server components - ESXi, vCenter, vRops, Red Hat OSV, Red Hat migrations, Red Hat Operators
• Global deployment of security vulnerability patches on VMware infrastructure platform server components (ESXi, vCenter, vRops)
• Lead or participate in server engineering projects (e.g. automation, shared virtualization farms, capacity on demand, technology refresh, etc.)
• Lead or participate in server operations projects (e.g. ESX host upgrades, vCenter upgrades, affinity rule rollout, VM resource adds, VM restores, etc.)
• ProvideL1 – L3 level support to Operations teams for virtual machine related issues.
• Participate L1-L2 off-hour on-call rotation once every 2 months.
• Support VMware server platform field testing.
• Support HPE Synergy/ProLiant iLO and firmware field testing.
• Develop and maintain Operational Documentation.
• Develop automation for day-2 operations in support of server compute infrastructure.

Education Required :

• Engineering Graduate in computer Science /IT or Post graduate in computer science/application.

Experience Preferred:

Primary Skills Preferred :

Basic Qualifications:

• Virtual server computing infrastructure knowledge.
• Scripting experience with PowerShell, Ansible & Yaml
• Enterprise Datacenter server hosting server experience or Hosting Infrastructure.
• Windows server or Linux operating system.
• Ability to work with a variety of cross functional teams to support deployment to remote locations. ⢠Proven track record of organizing and leading projects involving VMware/Red Hat or related infrastructure technologies for a large enterprise.
• Exceptional technical writing skills (run books, DR plans, platform architecture, etc.)
• Familiar with the client's Agile delivery concepts.
• Strong communication skills.
• Willingness to learn new technologies
• Good team player working with Global team

Experience Preferred :

• VMware DCV certification
• Red Hat OSV certification
• Red Hat CSA certification
• CKA -Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Additional Education Preferred :

Supervisory Skills Required:

• Work effectively in a team environment.
• Team leader capability desired.
• Pairing with team members occasionally required.
• Primary team is located locally with other individuals distributed globally.

Education Required:

• Bachelor's Degree

Education Preferred:

• Certification Program

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Skills Required
Git, Ansible, Openshift, Yaml, Red Hat, VMware, Powershell