Senior Systems Engineer (Enterprise Server Virtualization)

Saige Partners • Austin, MN

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About The Position

This position serves as a subject matter expert for Enterprise Server Virtualization and requires experience in system administration, with opportunities for a motivated individual to expand in the role. The position designs, architects, implements, configures, and monitors enterprise server virtualization solutions to meet business needs, including the VMware Hypervisor platform. It also manages physical hardware in corporate data centers and remote facilities, ensures compliance with vendor best practices, security policies, and disaster recovery requirements, and collaborates with platform teams on lifecycle management. The role maintains, monitors, and tests business continuity solutions; forecasts and plans yearly expense and capital budgets; researches, implements, and maintains system and platform security; resolves complex computer performance and technical problems; and develops and follows documented change-control procedures. The level offered—Systems Engineer or Senior Systems Engineer—will depend on experience and skill set.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Information Systems, or a related field, or 7–12 years of experience engineering, deploying, and supporting enterprise infrastructure.
• Experience with VMware Cloud Foundations, NSX, Site Recovery Manager (SRM), vSphere Replication, Virtual Center, Aria Operations Manager, Aria Network Operations Manager, and Aria Operations for Logs.
• Proficiency administering enterprise physical and virtual server environments.
• Desire to learn new technologies and manage vendor relationships.
• Demonstrated initiative and technical innovation, problem-solving, decision-making, and project-management skills, with strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Ability to work nights, weekends, and holidays for third-level support and/or system upgrades in support of Plant downtime availability.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National, a lawful permanent resident, or otherwise authorized to work in the United States.
• Must not now or in the future require sponsorship for an employment visa.

Nice To Haves

• Experience administering additional enterprise-level hypervisors.
• Experience with Windows Server and/or Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems.
• Experience administering storage arrays or data protection, such as NetApp, Dell storage, IBM storage, Cisco MDS, Rubrik, or IBM Storage Protect.
• Strong knowledge of ITS infrastructure and troubleshooting experience, including networking and TCP/IP concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, implement, configure, and monitor enterprise server virtualization solutions, including the VMware Hypervisor platform.
• Manage physical hardware in corporate data centers and remote facilities.
• Ensure compliance with vendor best practices, security policies, and disaster recovery requirements.
• Collaborate with platform teams on lifecycle management.
• Maintain, monitor, and test business continuity solutions.
• Forecast and plan yearly expense and capital budgets.
• Research, implement, and maintain system and platform security to help ensure environment stability.
• Solve complex computer performance and technical problems.
• Develop and follow well-documented change-control procedures.
• Provide third-level support and/or perform system upgrades during nights, weekends, and holidays in support of Plant downtime availability.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior