VMware Technical Systems EngineerThis position is a Technical Systems Engineer who can design, install, configure, and troubleshoot very large and complex VMware environments. You will work in a team of very talented engineers that support an extremely large VMware environment in Cisco IT. You will need to have strong skills in following areas:
- Expert level understanding of VMware environments at enterprise scale
- Expert level knowledge in VMware networking and storage technologies
- VMware vROPS experience for monitoring and capacity management
- Expert level knowledge of compute server hardware and operating systems
- Ability to lead, communicate and drive change across organizations
- Ability to work cross-functionally with peer technology teams
- Development experience to automate the VMware environment lifecycle
- Improve our operational practices to minimize service disruptions
- Ability to listen to clients and propose and deliver solutions to their needs
- Knowledge and experience working in an Agile operating model.
- Experience with Incident and Problem Management
- Preferred experience working with Cisco Unified Compute System blades, fabric interconnects, and rack servers
- Experience with converged infrastructure stacks like Cisco HX
- Experience in fault analysis, troubleshooting, and working with VMware and Cisco TACExperience with the following technologies and concepts
- VMware vSphere 7.x and 8.x experience
- VMware vROPS experience for alerts
- Ability to troubleshoot VMware ESXi and vSphere at a low level
- Experience with VMware virtual switching and distributed virtual switches
- Able to identify issues proactively and develop automation to fix and verify those changes
- Understanding of security including OS hardening, firewalls, iptables, and collaborating with Infosec
- Understanding of network basics like routers and switches
- VMware and Linux Certifications
- Experience with VMware automation using Powershell, Ansible, or Python
- Experience using Git, BitBucket and Jenkins
- Experience with Software Defined Lifecycle frameworks
- Cisco UCS experience
- Cisco ACI and Cisco distributed virtual switch experience is a plus