VMWare Engineer(no third party, only W2)

Job Description:

Pay Rate: $40 - $45/hour on W2

• Core hours are 3pm EST to 11pm EST with expectation of some flexibility, 2nd shift hours
• Work as part of a technical support team delivering a quality service to single/multiple clients using a variety of hardware and software products
• Analyze and understand clients' needs and expectations, as well as alternative architectures and trends
• Interview clients' technical teams to gather relevant information to facilitate architectural requirements definitions Takes responsibility to lead small to medium scale design projects, interfacing with project managers
• Establish, explain, and validate the solution testing criteria for projects
• Design services in accordance with Accenture standards and vendor best practices
• Remain current on vendor best practices as it relates to the interlinking of technologies (Windows, VMware, Storage platforms)
• Provide expertise on system performance tuning, capacity planning, and maintenance patching and new version installation
• Develop and maintain standard templates for repeatable build outs
• Work with vendors and drive them to help us meet our service level obligations
• Plan and implement small to medium scale changes on production systems
• Analyze and assess the impact and risk of small to medium risk changes on production systems
• Install, configure, patch and maintain appropriate technologies (e.g. servers/databases/network/ storage)
• Design and assist small to medium scale disaster recovery tests
• Create and review technical system recovery plans
• Demonstrate commitment to Service Excellence
• At more senior levels, perform major upgrades of systems and associated products
• At more senior levels, act as technical lead for one or more small to medium scale clients

Required Skills

• 1 - 3 years Cloud Administration experience (AWS, Azure, OCI, Google Cloud Platform)
• 1 - 3 years' experience working on an enterprise level operations team
• with the ability to pass stringent background checks

Preferred Skills

• 1 - 3 years' experience working with Active Directory
• 1 - 3 years' experience working with VMWare
• SAN experience (EMC preferred)
• MCSE certification
• VMWare VCP
• WSUS
• ITIL Foundation certification
• Experience working with High Availability environments
• Associate or Bachelor's degree in a technical area
• Proven ability to work independently and as a team member
• Good communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Good organizational, multi-tasking, and time management skills.