Basic Purpose:

• The Systems Engineer is primarily responsible for all aspects of administration, enhancement and problem resolution for the Enterprise's VMware and Data Protection environments.
• The Systems Engineer will focus on maintaining a highly available and secure environment through best practices, documentation, process improvement and continuous learning.
• Other responsibilities include identifying problems and errors, incident management, reporting and dashboarding, and project based work.
• The successful candidate must be able to work in unsupervised situations, provide excellent customer service, be extremely detailed and highly motivated while working in a team-based environment.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Configuration, maintenance and administration of a secure VMware environment.
- Configuration, maintenance and administration of a secure data protection environment using various backup technologies.
- Troubleshooting and resolution of issues in the environment
- Provide guidance on performance tuning, optimization, and capacity planning for servers and applications.
- Provide comprehensive monitoring and alerting configurations with ability to view environment state via operational dashboards.
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Collaborate with application owners on application deployment and configuration
- Participate in on-call rotation for off-hours incidents
- Understanding of security and compliance controls
- Analyze and identify trends in reported issues and devise preventative solutions
- Participate in Continuous Process Improvement on team processes.
- Participate in cross team projects
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- VMware Certified Professional (VCP) preferred
- Proven ability to automate with Powershell/PowerCLI
- Experience with VMware 7.0 or higher to include vCenter, vSphere and the vRealize Suite
- Experience with backup and storage technologies, especially Rubrik, CommVault, NetBackup, Veeam
- Experience with disaster recovery tools such as SRM and Zerto
- Experience with AWS
- Familiar with SOX and SOC controls
- The candidate must demonstrate strong infrastructure technical qualities. Preferably in a global environment, ideally within the Finance or other regulated industry
- Good Interpersonal Skills; Communication, flexibility, self-driven, team player
- Strong verbal and written skills and the ability to interact with global teams and customers