What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr VMWare Engineer (WY) position at CEDENT?
For this role, we are seeking a Sr VMware Engineer with on prem Data center experince and workign with bare metal deployments. This role will require the candidate to be onsite 5 days a week in Cheyenne, Wyoming. If candidate is relocating, they should be onsite day 1.
Senior VMWare Engineer Requirements:
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical degree; six years related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 4 or more years of professional experience in VMware services and tools
- Direct experience in bare-metal deployments of VMware infrastructure
- Direct experience with building and administering multiple VMware products across multiple remote locations and data centers
- 2 or more years experience in programming using one or more of the following: Java, C , Perl, Python, Ruby, or advanced Shell scripting
Preferred additional experience:
- Hands on experience Infrastructure-As-Code, automating deployments, cluster management, and systems security within a CI/CD Pipeline
- Experience with VMware on Cloud (VMC) on AWS
- Experience with VMWARE infrastructure in a very large enterprise environment
- Experience in Kubernetes regarding containers / Microservices principles
- Disciplined practice of producing, maintaining, and versioning system documentation
Primary Responsibilities:
- Act in a technical leadership capacity: Mentor junior engineers and new team members, and apply technical expertise to challenging programming and design problems
- Develop highly available, fault-tolerant VMware infrastructure designs and solutions
- Establishes standards and guidelines for the design & development, tuning, deployment and maintenance of VMware infrastructure, including backups, upgrade, and automation processes
- Proactively identify and recommend updates to software or architecture as necessary before reaching capacity limitations
- Develop automated responses to incidents so that manual intervention is not necessary
- Champion system metrics (MTBF, MTTR, etc.) and convey them to decision makers on a regular basis
- Manage priority of issues and tickets and participate in rotating an on-call schedule with other members of the team, including weekends
This is a contract position
