Windows VMware Admin
Kansas City, KS ( 5 days onsite)
12+ years exp.
Job Title Windows VMware Admin
- Monitor and maintain the connectivity between different locations
- Assist end users with system knowledge related to user authentication user management file configuration storage access and backup and navigation through files
- Manage network communication utilities
- Monitor server and desktop CPU storage memory usage leveraging tools for eye on the glass monitoring using tools like task manager event viewer to investigate performance and security issues
- Set repository install update and remove packages
- Manage network printers file sharing
- Deploy configure and maintain systems including software and core services
- Create and configure file system and attributes such as permissions access controls list encryptions and network file system
- Work closely with security team to design and deploy security specific packages across servers
- Research schedule test and patch systems per schedules and requirements Determine patch interactivities between systems and applications to limit downtime
- Maintain server patch versions as per the standards and provide the monthly patching compliance report
- Design and implement hardening configurations across operating systems Research test validate hardening configurations suggested by the Infosec department to understand impact to global application library
- Design Manage Optimize DFS namespace entries and namespace servers for creation deletion and modification
- Resolve server issues and update hardware requirements including scoping equipment to fit needs
- Operate running systems including booting into different run levels identifying processes startstop virtual machines and controlling services
- Provide L1L2L3 infrastructure support for On premise Azure Gov Azure Commercial AWS Commercial GCP and Oracle Cloud environments
- Perform incident service catalog problem change management
- Deploy workloads via automated workflows using PowerShell scripts Terraform Ansible ARM templates DevOps Pipelines
- Architect design implement maintain and optimize all server related systems including hypervisor virtual machines virtual appliances containers and automations
- Perform all maintenance required to keep systems running at peak performance including but not limited to log management snapshot management system growth rates cleaning of unused files and objects
- Design build and maintain server related automations preexisting and go forward Including but not limited to configuration build access management and decommission
- Handle all internal CA Authority management of certificates and externally facing certificates Work with applications teams to deploy certificates effectively and responsibly based on use case Own entire certificate process end to end
VMWare VSphere
Experience or significant exposure to any of the following technologies
VMWare VSphere and its features vMotion HA DRS etc
ESXi deployments
- VM creation templates snapshots and VM backup
- Administer and support VMware platform
- Maintain appropriate documentation on virtualization
- Provide a point of escalation and support to the Service Desk Team
- Provide 247 oncall support for the environment
- Participate in weekend maintenance activities as required
- Perform routine system administration duties
- Monitor ESXi servers and troubleshoot problems
- Produce appropriate documentation for application deployment configuration and related processes
- Responsible for the operations and upkeep of the private and shared virtualized environments
- Work closely with other virtualization engineers on new implementations as well as maintaining the current environments
- Act as a technical escalation point within Central Operations for virtualization specific issues
- Responsible for implementing and supporting process and systems are in place to deliver highly available virtualization platforms
- Creates documentation for cu
Skills
Windows-Administration (Advanced)