What are the responsibilities and job description for the VMWare Analyst position at Blackstone Technology Group?
Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking a VMWare Analyst to join our team at our client’s site in Columbia, SC. This position is for a VMWare Analyst to perform operational support for current and future virtual steady state efforts servicing the needs of the United States Attorney’s Office.
Required Skills:
- Minimum of 4 years of experience operating and troubleshooting scalable, highly available, mission-critical virtual environments
- The incumbent should have experience with implementation, fielding, and tier 1-2 support of the enterprise VMware server environment and underlying data center technologies.
- Engineer should have hands-on experience working in within an enterprise IT and data center environment utilizing VMware technologies, in particular vSphere, ESXi 5.x & 6.x, Horizon View 6.x and 7.x, with some experience working in a high-paced VDI environment. This is a multi-enterprise, complex, geographically dispersed solution, ranging from single servers to multi-tier, multi-platform solutions connected through fiber channels to EMC Storage Arrays.
- Assist and serve as a backup to reviewing, planning, and participating in executing regularly scheduled maintenance on the VMware infrastructure.
- Adhere to change control procedures to plan/test/implement Infrastructure changes in coordination with business owners and training mission requirements following the company’s ITIL processes as well as security policies.
- Assist and serve as a backup to maintain the smooth operation of multi-user computer systems, including coordination with network administrators.
Duties may include:
- Setting up administrator and service accounts, initiating and maintaining system documentation and standard operating procedures, tuning system performance, installing system-wide software, and working with the lead engineer to optimally configure the environment.
- Interacting with users and evaluating vendor products.
- Make recommendations to purchase hardware and software, coordinate installation and provide backup recovery.
- Developing and monitoring policies and standards for allocation related to the use of computing resources.
Security Clearance Requirement: Interim Secret
Must be able to attain up to Secret Clearance
Blackstone Talent Group is a division of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and solutions firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone’s global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.
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