- Experience in managing Red Hat RHEL Operating Systems
- Automation scripting - Bash, Python, GoLang
- Optimizing network hardware and software to enable VMWare integration
- Experience with storage products (Dell/EMC/Hitachi)
- Experience with SAN, NAS, CIFS, NFS Protocols, fiber channel switches Brocade, Cisco
- Experience in managing and executing on large scale virtualization migration and modernization projects including physical hardware and OS/software tooling upgrades while managing cost saving optimization
- Design disaster recovery planning, testing and execute on failover procedures
- Determining business needs and evaluating existing network infrastructure and systems
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
Preference BIG PLUS:
- VMWare Certified Professional (VCP) preferred (VCAP Design, VCAP Deploy, VCDX a plus)
- Experience in other virtualization technologies – Kernel-based virtual machines (KVM), Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (container-native virtualization)
- Experience in container technologies – Kubernetes
- In-depth knowledge in Virtualization and Hypervisor security including hardening techniques for the virtualization platform to prevent attack threats
- Experience managing relationships with vendors
Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, computer programming, or similar