Title: Virtualization & Compute Engineer (VMWare, Cisco, EMC, MS, UNIX Shell Scripting/Powershell Scripting) 

Our History:
From our start in 2009, Conexess has established itself in 3 markets, employing nearly 150+ individuals nation-wide. Operating in over 15 states, our client base ranges from Fortune 500/1000 companies, to mid-small range companies. For the majority of the mid-small range companies, we are exclusively used due to our outstanding staffing track record

Who We Are:
Conexess is a full-service staffing firm offering contract, contract-to hire, and direct placements. We have a wide range of recruiting capabilities extending from help desk technicians to CIOs. We are also capable of offering project based work.

Job Description:
Senior Systems Administrator with extensive knowledge and in-depth understanding of Virtualization, Linux/Unix/Windows systems, Cisco UCS systems, SAN/NAS storage. Key skillsets include virtualization, automation, enterprise storage, and server administration with underlying technologies from VMware, EMC, Cisco, and Microsoft.  Team Member will work as part of a team responsible for the Compute and Storage Tower within our Operations organizational matrix.  

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field or equivalent experience.
• Advanced Certification in relevant technologies (Cisco/EMC/Microsoft/VMWare).
• Advanced scripting experience (UNIX shell scripting / MS PowerShell).
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and resolve system outages.
• Demonstrated ability with automation and continual process improvement.
• Demonstrated ability to follow established policies and procedures.
• Demonstrated ability to document systems and processes.
• Demonstrated ability to work with customers.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor other IS team members.
• 5+ years enterprise system support experience.
• Ability to cover 24x7 on rotational basis.
• Ability to work monthly downtimes.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES 

Administration – Server / Virtualization / Storage Administration and Implementation (40%)

• Administrate ESX/VMWare virtual server environment.
• Administrate Cisco UCS server environment.
• Administrate Pure Flash SAN storage environment.
• Administrate Multi OS Environment.
• Analyzes business needs, gathers requirements, designs and develops technical solutions, provides detailed implementation plans and documentation. Implements the solution, provides training and handoff to support teams. 
• Develops and documents models, plans, diagrams, illustrations, and procedures in support of engineering activities and virtualization related business initiatives. 
• Acts as a project entry-point for initiatives focused on security, e-commerce, web hosting and internal application hosting. 
• Advises business managers and customers of hardware requirements, configurations, and limitations
• Creates project implementation plans, production configurations
• Performs cost/benefit studies of network configurations and recommends enhancements and generates documentation required to implement high-visibility large impact capital infrastructure projects 
• Research, evaluate, and directs the acquisition, installation, and testing of network hardware for voice, data and video, storage, storage networking, virtualization, compute, backups, synchronization, high-availability and disaster recovery.
• Performs site surveys, systems evaluations, system analysis and assessments of technology and hardware. 
• Performs ROI and cost benefit studies. Creates capital expenditure (CAPEX) requests and tracks the progress of hardware & software orders.
• Automates and simplifies the rollout of compute resources, providing an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environment.

System Administration – System Reporting and Maintenance (40%)    

• Perform routine maintenance on all systems to ensure security compliance and system health.
• Perform regular reporting on key system metrics to maintain enterprise system health.
• Perform ongoing business continuity and disaster recovery testing to ensure information availability.
• Maintain all monitoring tools including Turbonomics, vCOPS, EMC MNR, Pure.
• Maintain accurate documentation for all systems and services. 
• Ensuring and implementing the infrastructure as per the Design. 
• Perform asset management of server, storage, and virtual environments.
• Support internal development, E-Commerce, and Web teams in the implementation of content and applications supporting customers and stores. 
• Receives escalated issues and is the last level of support (level 4) for troubleshooting networks, VPN, servers and other network equipment. 
• Provides detailed root cause analysis (RCA) documentation in the event of a system or process failure.
• Document in detail system architectures for the purpose of Disaster Recovery
• Gathers and provides statistical data for regular executive reporting

System Administration – System Troubleshooting and End-User Support (20%)

• Respond to down server, storage, and LAN/WAN situations as appropriate.
• Respond to alerts generated by monitoring systems to ensure enterprise system health. 
• Perform root cause analysis of major system outages.
• Mentor, assist, and support Security and Operations technical teams.  
• Conducts periodic technology and security reviews with support staff to address areas of growth or issue.
• Creates and updates template configurations to be modeled for production use.