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Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote.
We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent full-time role.
A prestigious company is looking for a Senior Engineer, Server Operations. This engineer will focus on operational support and large-scale administration of Windows, Linux, VMware, Azure, and Hyper-V environments.
Responsibilities & Qualifications:
- The Server Engineer Senior 1 must have a BA/BS in computer science, related field, or equivalent experience. Must have 10+ years of overall technology experience along with 3+ years supporting major implementations in large scale Windows, Linux, Acropolis, VMWare, Hyper-V and Azure environments.
- Knowledge and ability configure/administer of cloud technology vendors (Azure) and the tools associated with selected vendors’ products.
- Able to configure & support Microsoft Windows and Linux Operating systems (RHEL, SUSE, CentOS, Ubuntu).
- Able to configure & support VMware, Hyper-V and Nutanix hypervisors and their underlying technologies (Compute & Storage vMotion, DRS, HA, Clustering Services, Hyper-V Manager).
- Able to configure & support VMware, Hyper-V & Nutanix virtual machine managers (vCenter, SCVMM & Prism Central)
- Able to configure & support Container based technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Rancher, etc).
- Able to configure & support Active Directory and it's underlying technologies such as DNS, DHCP, Certificate Services, Forest & Domain Trusts, Windows Clustering, GPOs, etc.
- Knowledge of Cisco UCS Hardware including blade, rack mount servers and Fiber Interconnects and server profiles. Understanding of Cisco UCS Manager and CIMC for Lights out management.
- Knowledge of Nutanix Hardware.
- Ability to install hardware in Data Center racks and ensure redundant power & networking and proper labeling (Rack & Stack).
- Knowledge of server monitoring and configuration baseline and patching tools and the ability to manage such tools such as SCCM and SCOM.
- Server security remediation including using tools such as Nexpose & Kenna to identify threats and ability to remediate such threats by installing patches or pushing out group policies to fix vulnerabilities.
- Strong coding knowledge (PowerShell & Bash) and the ability to automate processes to implement and manage the server environment effectively.
- Knowledge of networking and load balancing and fail over systems.
- Knowledge of hardware vendors and the tools associated with selected vendors’ products.
Infrastructure Technologies:
- Microsoft Cloud Technologies (Azure).
- Microsoft Windows Server 2016 / 2019 / 2022.
- VMware Virtual Center and ESXi v7.x.
- Red Hat Linux, other Unix Variant Vendor Appliances.
- Microsoft Active Directory/DNS/DHCP/DFS.
- CISCO UCS Series Server Hardware.
- Microsoft Hyper-V 2016, 2019.
- Container Technologies (Kubernetes, Rancher, etc).
- Microsoft System Center (SCCM & SCOM, SCVMM).
- UCS Manager, UCS Director, CISCO Intersight.
- PowerShell
- Turbonomic Virtualization Platform Tool.
- Nutanix Technologies including Prism Central, LEAP, etc.
