Sr Sys Engineer-Cnvrgd&Hyprcnv

Join the transformative team at City of Hope , where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope's growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
This is a Fully Remote Opportunity within the United States
As a successful candidate, you will:
The Senior Systems Engineer (Converged and Hyperconverged Systems) is responsible for the design, testing, evaluation, implementation and support of various platforms (hardware, operating systems, software and system tools). The Senior Systems Engineers ensure the stability, integrity, and efficient operation of various computer network, Internet and database systems that support core Epic hosting functions. Provides consultation and direct technical support in life cycle planning, problem management, integration, systems programming and in delivering IT infrastructure initiatives. Implements system releases, upgrades and/or changes into the environment. Ensures platform performance and availability solutions meet business requirements through monitoring, timely service restoration and tuning. Duties may include capacity planning, workload modeling, system maintenance/administration and diagnostics.

• Experience and working knowledge of Converged/Hyperconverged systems including Dell EMC, Cisco and Nutanix solutions as it relates to building and supporting Clinical and Research applications.
• Hands on experience designing and configuring VxBlock and related converged solutions
• Must have specific hardware and software skills to support Cisco UCS compute, Nexus and MDS networking on VxBlock platforms
• Ability to troubleshoot and analyze performance in virtual environments (VMware)
• Must have experience with the various tools to provision, reclaim and analyze UCS related components
• Experience with performance management and remediation
• Primary role revolves around Converged and Hyperconverged solutions administration activities (85%) with some design and architecture activities (15%)
• Must have excellent communication skills and be able to engage with peers, clients, leadership teams and vendors
• Responsible for deployment and operation of Dell Technologies VxBlock, PowerMAX, PowerStore, XtremeIO and VxRail/VxRack platforms
• Implementing and administering Nutanix platforms
• Deploy, configure, monitor and manage large VMware environments.
• Configuration review of existing architectures and designs
• Create SAN Zoning and masking as appropriate
• Understanding of VCE Release Certification Matrices
• Configure ESXI Cluster based on design and architecture plan. This includes Nk1v or distributed switch implementation
• Provision Datastore LUN's as appropriate
• Validate multi-pathing settings are set appropriately based on storage platform
• Validate configuration and cross reference/review various technology stacks to ensure proper configuration documentation and procedure development and maintenance
• Implement, design and maintain information systems infrastructure and related enterprise technologies
• Coordinate with network operations personnel and other business units on large-scale project management initiatives
• Proven experience performing server systems design, implementation and administration
• Must be able to analyze system kernel and able to provide root cause analysis for complex problems
• Defines, designs and architects systems communications and solutions
• Must have wide-ranging experience, uses professional concepts and company objectives to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Responsible for handling the most complex systems and resolving the most complex problems
• Architects and Implements HA and DR strategy for virtual and physical systems
• Participate in Disaster Recovery planning and drills of IT Infrastructure and dependent applications.
• Monitors data traffic and controls system resources and performance to ensure high quality of application service
• Participate in on-call rotation support for customer impacting issues that occur on evenings and weekends.
• Other duties as assigned and as technology needs evolves

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent experience defined as an amount equal to Minimum Experience in addition to the Minimum Experience.
• 5 years systems engineering experience
• 2 + years of experience with VxBlock Converged systems or Hyperconverged Systems
• Significant enterprise experience with Red Hat Linux, Windows, VMWare ESX is required