Senior VMware Systems Engineer - Cleveland, Ohio (permanent, full-time, on-site)
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This is a permanent, full-time, on-site position. Strategy & Planning
- Perform analysis of the organization's business needs, translate business requirements into use cases, design and implementation services for automating system delivery.
- Develop, deploy, and maintain VMware delivery catalog.
- Implement service level standards and practices for compute, storage, and VMware deployments.
- Participate in the development of standards and decisions regarding changes to systems/applications.
- Provide technical leadership and vision.
- Identify open source tools, languages, and technologies for accelerating system delivery by leveraging automation and infrastructure orchestration techniques.
- Define methods and practices for executing change management policies in large scale server environments.
- Analyze new emerging technologies in the compute, storage, and VMware space and translate functionality of the new technology into an effective IT vision and strategy
- Keep up-to-date on business trends and the latest technology innovations to forecast solutions, and anticipate emerging business changes
- Collaborate with other technologists across the enterprise to assess current capabilities and bridge the gaps with legacy and future systems.
- Participate in and support capacity planning and the development of long-term strategic goals for COMPUTE, STORAGE, AND VMWARE systems and software in conjunction with compute, storage, and VMware customers.
- Advanced server scripting abilities using Bash Shell, Perl, PowerShell, and/or Python.
- Engage in the planning, design, development and effectuation of improvements with focus on simplification and optimization of processes.
- Meet with clients, peers and decision makers to define business requirements and system goals, and identify and resolve business systems issues.
- Engage with vendors and industry leaders on existing and future products and technologies.
- Evaluate financial impact of existing and future products and technologies.
- Administer/support the policies, procedures, and technologies to ensure compute, storage, and VMware system security through secure system access, monitoring, control, and routine security evaluations.
- Participate in standard configuration, management, and maintenance tasks for related file systems, input/output systems, networking, clustering, storage, and applications.
- Design, implement, perform and test application high availability solutions to meet required levels of application availability.
- Design, implement, perform and test application disaster recovery solutions to meet required levels of application recoverability.
- Work with team to anticipate, mitigate, identify, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware and software problems on all compute, storage, and VMware systems.
- Collaborate and support application development teams throughout project lifecycles.
- Design and implement effective system monitoring.
- Design, gain approval for and execute modifications to compute, storage, and VMware systems in order to improve efficiency, reliability, and performance.
- Ensure secure user access and role validation processes.
- Create required reports in response to business user needs.
- Develop, document, and maintain compute, storage, and VMware system training materials and systems documentation for educating end users and new IT staff.
- Mentor and/or provide guidance to other members of the team.
- Participate in capacity planning and performance management activities.