The role will be a lead on our Infrastructure team, who will manage and support our VMWare NSX-T and AVI load balancers and maintain our vSphere, vCenter, and ESXi components. This individual will be responsible for the lifecycle management of these products as well as ongoing monitoring and support. Additionally, this resource will assist in defining our roadmap for VMWare and leverage best practices to ensure operational excellence.
Roles and Responsibilities
Lead the effort to ensure all technology dependencies are compatible with our move towards vSphere 8
Responsible for supporting vSphere and its components; proactively identifying issues and resolving them as they arise
Supporting, upgrading, and maintaining the NSX-T environment
Proactively assist in projects requiring network impacting changes leveraging Aria Operations for Networks
Finalize our migration from NSX-T load balancers to AVI load balancers
Assist other teams with AVI load balancer deployments or migrations and troubleshooting support as needed
Help to define and deploy microsegments based on requirements from Cybersecurity
Basic Qualifications
7+ years of experience managing, designing, deploying, and maintaining VMWare Vsphere
3+ years of experience using NSX-T for network virtualization and microsegmentation
Experience using vRealize Network Insight
Experience with application mobility using VMWare HCX
Extensive knowledge of security best practices and firewall technology including microsegmentation and load balancing
Knowledge of the physical hardware required to support the virtualized environment, such as Cisco UCS, fiber interconnects and storage
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with VMWare Horizon version 8.0 and App Volumes
Experience with Palo Alto firewalls
Experience with Azure AD and/or ADFS
Experience with Pure Storage
Experience with automation, Powershell scripting, Ansible, Terraform, etc.
Experience as a lead engineer mentoring other team members
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Hardware & NetworksRole Category: IT NetworkRole: Network ArchitectEmployement Type: Full time