Virtualization Engineer
Posted 6 days 14 hours ago by Millennium Management LLC
Permanent
Not Specified
Other
London, United Kingdom
Job Description
We are seeking an expert in virtualization and storage technologies. They will be a hands-on design engineer, specializing in virtualization technologies for virtual servers and VDI using VMware and Nutanix.
Responsibilities:
- Design enterprise level virtual technologies for the firm
- Manage the day-to-day administration of VMWare and Nutanix clusters
- Performance and capacity management projections
- Create documentation for best practices in deploying Hyper converge solutions
- Provide virtual platform system technical performance and availability recommendations
- Plan and engineer expansion of converged infrastructure
- Deploy and test HA/BCP virtual environments for the firm
- Provide guidance for virtualization best practices
- Participate in the design and support of all backend infrastructure components for the virtual environment for the firm.
Required Skills:
- Minimum of 5 years' experience with VMWare technologies
- 2 - 3 years of hands-on experience with Nutanix HCI
- Extensive Virtualization Experience such as design, implement, and manage virtual environments, including Datacenter cluster(s) managed by vCenter.
- Experience with VMware vCenter design/Nutanix Prism Central and implementation best practices.
- Experience with building and maintaining high-availability (>99%) VMware environments
- Extensive server hardware knowledge with HPE, Dell or SuperMicro server
- Ability to perform root cause analysis on all VMware products. E.g. ESX hosts, Virtual Centers, and Virtual Machines
- Ability to administrate, maintain, and troubleshoot Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) attached to Virtual environments
- Thorough knowledge of setting up different BCP technologies such as Zerto, SRM, Rubrik, Netbackup etc
- Ability to collaborate with different teams working across different areas in multiple locations in different time zones
- P roficient in code commit workflows and continuous deployment (CD) pipeline processes
- Experience with server build automation, virtual machine (VM) deployment, and report automation utilizing PowerShell or Python.
Nice to have skills:
- Experience working with GPU at the enterprise level for VDI deployment.
- Working experience with other operating systems such as Linux, Windows
- Basic network knowledge working in an enterprise data center Environment.
- PowerShell or Python scripting experience is a plus
- Familiar with automation tools such as Chef, Jenkin, Pipelines and etc
- Experience with other hypervisors such Citrix XenServer, Hyperv, Openstack is a plus.
- Container experience with Kubernetes or Docker is a plus