Virtualization Engineer

Remote
Full Time
Experienced
BayNova is seeking a Virtualization Engineer to join our IT Infrastructure team supporting an important government customer in a remote / work from home role.

BayNova supports a government customer in the operations and maintenance of their IT infrastructure. This means our team includes System and Storage Engineers, DBA’s, Platform Support and even a 24x7 operations staff. We act as technical subject matter experts for complex customer environments. We build customer relationships in order to understand unique customer needs and provide technical expertise and a comprehensive understanding of customer environments.



Responsibilities:
  • One of your key tasks will be the daily operations and maintenance of our Cisco UCS blade infrastructure. These blades house the majority of our virtual workload in the range of 1200+ servers and virtual desktops
  • Administration of either Windows Server or Linux Enterprise Operating System environments. We need a strong candidate in UCS and virtualization, not as picky on which OS strength you have.
  • Administration, Planning, Design, and any Upgrades of the VMware 6.x environments
  • of our VMWare ESXi environment, experience with VROPS a plus.
  • Timely response to daily alerts from the 24x7 operations staff on server related issues, such as space alerts, troubleshooting and provisioning new virtual machines.
  • Be part of a 24x7 “on-call” engineering team, which just means you should plan on monthly patch windows and the occasional after hours call if you're on in the rotation. 

Requirements:
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 5-10 years’ related experience with minimum of 5 years administrating and troubleshooting in an enterprise environment with a focus / ownership of Cisco UCS blades or similar enterprise class blade systems.
  • Proven experience building and supporting VMware HA/DRS/SRM enterprise environments
  • Solid and proven experience in either Windows or Linux system administration.
  • Ability to solve complex problems spanning multiple technologies and disciplines
  • Methodical approach to change execution and implementation
  • Demonstrated history of developing documentation and operational process
  • Ability to take ownership of issue analysis and resolution efforts and commitment to resolve technical issues in a 24x7 environment
Desired/Nice To Have:
  • Proven experience writing scripts in Powershell or other scripting languages in support of daily administration and automation.
  • Experience with Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM or MECM)
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