What are the responsibilities and job description for the VMWare Administrator position at Information Resource group, Inc.?
Role: VMWare Administrator
Location: Jefferson City, MO
Duration: Long Term Contract
Responsibilities:
- Manage VMware Infrastructure/vSphere & Hyper-V clusters on Production and Test/Development environments
- Build, test, and maintain new VMs
- Work with system owners and fine tune VM configurations to get the best performance/resource utilization
- Detection of VMware issues, monitoring and ownership of standards and requirements
- Participate in capacity planning for the infrastructure
- Provide tools and procedures for resources provisioning
- Document processes and procedures
- Propose VM provisioning solutions to be analyzed and/or implemented
- Evaluate and apply version updates to ESX hosts and vulnerability patches as needed
- Develop and implement test plans to verify installation, upgrades or repairs, including back-out plans
- Outstanding communication skills
- Excellent troubleshooting skills
- Ability to provide after-hours support occasionally as needed
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Ability to work both independently and as a member of a team
- Initiative to research and resolve problems
Required Skills:
- 5 years experience with VMware & Hyper-V systems administration and support
- Working experience with vSphere systems administration and support, including storage migrations, vMotion and P2V migrations
- Basic understanding of Unix/Linux
- Strong focus on vSphere capacity planning and performance tools
