About the position
The VMware/Nutanix/Server Engineer, within the Server & Storage Team, is a senior-level technician for Revenue's Information Systems Infrastructure Team. This position serves as a senior-level technician who performs highly complex tasks within DOR's Server and Storage environment, consulting, planning, utilizing specialized analysis, and providing design recommendations for Data Center-class and Server-class hardware, hyper-converged infrastructure, Enterprise Storage, Citrix VDI, Virtual Server Hosting Environments and services. Revenue is a dynamic learning organization where you will experience a remarkable work-life balance, with amazing leadership and talented co-workers ready and focused to achieve the agency's goals. We value diverse perspectives and life experiences. We employ and serve people of all backgrounds including people of color, immigrants, refugees, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities, and veterans. This unique culture of respect promotes a professional family of cohesive groups maximizing potential through opportunity.
Responsibilities
- Implements and supports technical solutions for agency-wide mission-critical server hosting environments and services.
- Works with IT and business staff to include consults, plans, specialized analysis, and provides recommendations and implementation.
- Performs maintenance, upgrades, monitoring, and systems health checks of DOR IT systems, to include analyzing and troubleshooting problems, while implementing resolution, and making recommendations for improvements.
- Performs patching of server infrastructure and hosting environments, by planning, testing, deploying, and monitoring system availability after patching is completed.
- Installs, tests, validates, deploys, upgrades, maintains, and manages the agency's virtual server hosting environments, applications, and processes.
- Tests new infrastructure, applications, technical changes, and upgrades.
- Ensures server and storage systems comply with IRS and OCIO requirements.
Requirements
- Recent experience in the administration of Hyper-converged Infrastructure and virtual server hosting environments.
- Recent experience with Server operating systems, server hardware, and server software applications, including, but not limited to, computer network infrastructure technology, network operating systems, and virtualization technology.
- Strong written communication skills to produce clear, concise, organized documents.
- Ability to effectively express ideas and information verbally.
- Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills.
- Ability to organize multiple assignments with competing priorities.
- Possesses advanced research, analysis, and problem-solving skills.
Nice-to-haves
- A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
- Vendor certifications in specific technologies, including Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA), Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE), Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP), and/or VMware Certified Professional (VCP).
- A minimum of 1 year of recent experience in the administration of Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure.
- A minimum of 1 year of recent experience in the administration of Citrix VDI environments.
- 4 years of recent experience in the administration of Hyper-converged Infrastructure and virtual server hosting environments.
- 3 years of recent experience with Server operating systems, server hardware, and server software applications.
Benefits
- Defined benefit retirement plans
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Deferred compensation plans
- Eligibility for student loan forgiveness
