Senior IT VMWare Systems Engineer

Immediate need for a talented Senior IT VMWare Systems Engineer. This is a 12+ Months Contract
+ Possible Extension opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Jersey City, NJ (Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
Job ID: 23-53146
Pay Range: $75/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitate, coordinate and support reengineering and process improvement initiatives related to the enhancement of the virtualization server platform.
• Participate in projects and drive operations within the Infrastructure Virtualization team.
• Interface with vendors and global teams to ensure the environment conforms to the current standards.
• Deliver Business Continuance solutions in relation to Disaster Recovery.
• Maintain high system reliability, availability and resiliency levels.
• Provide required level of support for the production environments.
• Proactive system performance monitoring and capacity management using existing tool sets.
• Perform system upgrades and mandatory security/OS patchings.
• Liaise with application support teams to gather requirements, design, and deploy, and standardize systems.
• Provide 24*7 On call support based on rotations within the team.
• Perform thorough morning checks on all critical applications using existing tools or scripts.
• Strictly abide and follow the company policy and procedures pertaining to change and incident management.
• Responsible for ensuring that all systems are deployed consistent with group standards and best practices.
• Incident and Problem management: take ownership when required and work together with team to resolve production related issues.
• Follow groups standard security practices within the environment.
• Maintain service offering for internal business lines and IT operations.
• Reports to the Americas IT Infrastructure Virtualization Platform Manager.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field.
• Architecture experience in large VM environments with Hyperconverged Infrastructure and NSX Distributed Firewalls.
• 5-7 years supporting/developing VMware solutions and environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent project management skills focused on outcome based results.
• Expert knowledge of VMware Enterprise components and technologies such as vSphere, SRM, vSAN.
• Hands-on experience with VMware automated tools such as PowerCLI, vCO.
• Expert knowledge of the enterprise storage subsystems (EMC/SAN, iSCSI/PureStorage).
• Strong working knowledge of networking technology (i.e. function of TCP/IP) subnetting and routing. Strong knowledge of Active Directory.
• Good working knowledge of industry and hyper-converged hardware (e.g. Client/IBM/Client/Nutanix).
• Knowledge of relational databases such as Sybase, Oracle, and SQL along with MQ Series.
• Service oriented, positive, committed and enthusiastic team player.
• One or more of the following certifications (VCP-DCV, VCAP, etc).
• ITIL Certification.

Our client is a leading Financial services Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
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