VMWare Engineer

Job Description

Job Description:

A VMWare Engineer will be directly working in environments supporting automated deployment and management on a VMWare cloud native environment. This role will work directly towards increasing automated recovery and zero touch provisioning using tools like: Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Gitlab, Jenkins, and more.

Location: – Littleton or Cheyenne, CO

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, install, and administer virtualization using VMware and Hyper-V tools or similar interfaces

• Develop automated scripts for monitoring or analyzing the operation of infrastructure
• Proactively identify and recommend updates to software or architecture as necessary before reaching capacity limitations
• Create and maintain technical documentation and standard operating procedures
• 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

A successful VMWare Engineer will have the following at a minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical degree; four years related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 2 or more years of professional experience in VMware services and tools
• Direct experience with building and administering multiple VMware products across multiple remote locations and data centers
• 1 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
• Has provided upper-tier support for:
  • Bare-metal and virtual machines
  • Mass data storage environments
  • Network equipment
• 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

Salary: $120K-150K/year