Senior Systems Administrator – VMware Administrator

Company Description

Founded on a simple belief – do what’s right for our clients and our people. TrueBridge leverages proven talent identification / attraction / screening solutions to match highly qualified IT and business professionals with great opportunities. 

We made the Staffing Industry Analyst's 'Fastest Growing'​ list in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Job Description

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Install, configure & manage VMware ESXi Server Infrastructure and its components
  • Perform software and hardware upgrades & patching during and after hours
  • Provision, manage and upgrade of guest VMs and templates during and after hours
  • Troubleshooting VMware issues, monitoring & root cause analysis during and after hours
  • Following asset and Change Management procedures, for the VMware assets
  • Server decommission
  • Provide 24 X 7 hardware & software support, and be part of on-call rotation and escalation process.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years’ experience with implementing and supporting VMware ESXi, vSphere environment
  • Basic understanding of PowerShell, PowerCLI scripting
  • Knowledge of networking essentials, covering LAN technologies, switches/routers
  • Strong experience supporting HP Chassis/Blades & HP Rack server hardware
  • Strong experience supporting Cisco UCS Chassis/Blades
  • Strong experience supporting VCE vBlock hardware
  • Strong experience managing systems remotely using SSH, RDP, ILO, etc.
  • VMware vCloud Computing and Orchestration tools
  • vCD / vCAC / vRealize Automation / vRealize Orchestration
  • Ability to broker solutions among diverse and geographically disparate teams.
  • Possess high-levels of accountability and drive; must be solution-oriented with good communication skills.          

Nice to Have:    

  • SAN/NAS (preferably NetApp, Tintri, VMAX)
  • VMware Horizon / View / VDI
  • Monitoring tools – IBM Tivoli & HP SIM
  • Experience in capacity planning/modeling in a distributed system environment
  • Database technologies (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle)

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential.

Renil John "Neil" Cervantes

National Talent Advisor - TrueBridge Resources

+1 980 244 3270