Virtualization Engineer
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Responsibilities
Virtualization Hosting & Platform Engineering
- Engineer, deploy, administer, secure, and manage the full lifecycle of global VMware and OpenShift Virtualization (OSV) platforms.
- Design and support large-scale virtualization environments, including HPE Synergy/ProLiant iLO and firmware testing.
- Develop and maintain operating procedures, monitoring and logging standards, disaster recovery processes, and security guidelines.
- Plan and forecast compute, VM, memory, storage, and network capacity.
- Analyze utilization trends and recommend scaling, consolidation, and optimization strategies.
- Automate VMware/OSV configuration, VM management, auditing, remediation, and ticketing workflows using scripts and playbooks.
- Apply SRE practices to improve platform reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.
- Manage RBAC, namespaces, and CPU, disk, and storage quotas.
- Implement end-to-end monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting using Dynatrace, RHACM, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Monitor VM health, performance, resource utilization, and potential security anomalies.
- Lead root cause analysis and resolve complex issues across the global compute environment.
- Consult with application teams and design custom OSV clusters and VM solutions for critical or specialized workloads.
- Maintain technical documentation and customer-facing self-service content.
- Provide L1–L3 support for Operations teams.
- Participate in monthly after-hours and weekend support.
Details:
Skills Required
- Scripting, Automation, Kubernetes, Root cause analysis, Cloud architecture, IT solutions, GitHub, Cloud infrastructure, Change management, Technical analysis, Development, Tekton, Utilization management, VMware, VMware ESX Servers, Platform support, Infrastructure architectures
- Ansible, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Dynatrace, PowerShell, Access controls, Python, Information security, Automation, Artificial intelligence and expert systems
- 10+ years of experience in IT, 8+ years of experience in development.
- Understanding of VMware and Kubernetes concepts.
- Experience with Linux administration and networking fundamentals.
- Proficiency in scripting languages for automation.
- Experience with monitoring tools and logging solutions.
- Understanding of virtualization concepts and technologies, such as KVM and VMware.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues across multiple layers of the technology stack.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies.
- Associate Degree, College Senior
- Certification Program, Bachelor's Degree
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