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Platform Engineering Engineer 3 #1034699Job Description:
- This is a Virtualization Server Hosting Engineering position in Foundational Compute Services in our Enterprise Platform Engineering Operations.
- The successful candidate will be responsible for engineering, deployment, operational administration, and protection of global enterprise solutions to meet the Virtualization Server Hosting requirements for a variety of VMware& Red Hat infrastructure systems, line of business and third-party application needs.
- Education Required Engineering Graduate in computer Science /IT or Post graduate in computer science/application. For
Additional qualification/certification Preferred
- VMware DCV certification
- Red Hat OSV certification
- Red Hat CSA certification
- CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Skills Required:
- OSV, Openshift , VMware ESX Servers, Kubernetes, Tekton, git, GitHub, CI/CD, Ansible, Yaml, Docker, redhat, Network Protocols & Standards, Communications, Storage Management, Storage Capacity Management, MSSQL, Python, Windows Servers, Microsoft Windows, IBM Websphere Application Server, Linux, API
Experience Required (Technical Qualifications)
- Overall 10+ years in IT development/operations/support/migrations
- 5+ years of experience with OpenShift Virtualization/automation
- Knowledge about containers/pods
- Deep insight about K8s
- Virtual Machine management
- Knowledge about PVCs and Operators
- 3+ Years of experience with Tekton Pipelines for Automation
- 5+ years of experience with Git repo mgmt. and usage.
- 3+ years of experience with Argo CD knowledge
- 3+ years of creating/managing Ansible playbooks
- 3+ years of PowerShell, Ansible & Yaml scripting
- 3+ years of managing Dockers
- 3+ Years of experience with VMWare vSphere ESXi, vCenter, vROPS
- 3+Years of experience working with VMware & Red Hat Server Infrastructure server hardware and related network components.
- 3+ Years of experience working in a Global/Large VMware environment.
- Infrastructure Experience with servers, network, storage, database, and backups.
- Experience in SQL Server, WebSphere, Windows OS, Linux OS.
- Familiar with PowerCLI and API calls via code.
Experience Required (Basic Qualifications)
- Virtual server computing infrastructure knowledge.
- Scripting experience with PowerShell, Ansible & Yaml
- Enterprise Datacenter server hosting server experience or Hosting Infrastructure.
- Windows server or Linux operating system.
- Ability to work with a variety of cross functional teams to support deployment to remote locations.
- Proven track record of organizing and leading projects involving VMware/Red Hat or related infrastructure technologies for a large enterprise.
- Exceptional technical writing skills (run books, DR plans, platform architecture, etc.)
- Familiar with company Agile delivery concepts.
- Strong communication skills.
- Willingness to learn new technologies
- Good team player working with Global team
Education Required: Bachelor's Degree
Education Preferred: Master's Degree
Additional Information
Primary Skills Required Responsibilities:
- Architect/design and support the installation, and administration of virtualization VMware & Red Hat OSV suite of products.
- Responsible for the entire lifecycle of the technologies globally including infrastructure security vulnerability patching, planning, designing, implementation, maintenance, upgrades and decommissioning of hardware and software.
- Engineer, test and document procedures, monitoring, logging, disaster recovery process and security policies and guidelines
- Demonstrates knowledge of a broad range of hardware and software products.
- Research industry best practices and trends.
- Provide operational support of all global infrastructure hosting solution on VMware & Red Hat OSV server platforms.
- Provide consulting services to OS support teams and application teams as required for performance review and production outage root cause analysis.
- Global deployment of VMware & Red Hat infrastructure platform server components - ESXi, vCenter, vRops, Red Hat OSV, Red Hat migrations, Red Hat Operators
- Global deployment of security vulnerability patches on VMware infrastructure platform server components (ESXi, vCenter, vRops)
- Lead or participate in server engineering projects (e.g. automation, shared virtualization farms, capacity on demand, technology refresh, etc.)
- Lead or participate in server operations projects (e.g. ESX host upgrades, vCenter upgrades, affinity rule rollout, VM resource adds, VM restores, etc.)
- ProvideL1 - L3 level support to Operations teams for virtual machine related issues.
- Participate L1-L2 off-hour on-call rotation once ~every 2 months.
- Support VMware server platform field testing.
- Support HPE Synergy/ProLiant iLO and firmware field testing.
- Develop and maintain Operational Documentation.
- Develop automation for day-2 operations in support of server compute infrastructure.