Sr. VMware Engineer - Cheyenne, United States - The Select Group

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    Senior VMware Engineer

    The Select Group is seeking a talented VMware Engineer to join our client in the team in Cheyenne, Wyoming For this role, we are seeking a highly skilled VMware Engineer with extensive experience in virtualization technologies to design, implement, and maintain our virtualization infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in VMware services and tools, as well as experience in programming and scripting languages.

    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