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Job ID:
Job-1869Job Title:
Virtualization EngineerLocation:
Remote (USA)Duration:
1 year +Job Description:
Must Haves:- Experience in Microsoft Azure.
- Software and Hardware experience in Nutanix.
- Experience in Windows system administration.
- Advanced knowledge of security principles and configurations for Azure, Nutanix, M365 and AVD
- Advanced knowledge of Virtualization platforms, in particular VMware, Nutanix and AVD
- Advanced knowledge of Cloud architecture, in particular Azure and AWS
- Advanced knowledge of M365 architecture including Purview
- Advanced knowledge of M365 Purview
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Defender/Sentinel
- Solid knowledge of Azure networking design principles.
- At least 2 years technical implementation experience with storage technologies (SAN, FCP/ISCSI and NAS)
- Thorough understanding of networking technologies, including administration of enterprise routers, switches, firewalls and load-balancers (OSI layers 4-7)
- Understanding of network security methodologies as a whole, including but not limited to: ACLs, Stateful firewalls, VPNs (tunneling, IPsec, PPTP, etc.)
- Migrate workloads to M365.
- Migrate remaining servers and applications from the VMWare environment to Microsoft Azure.
- Deploy Nutanix virtual environments to migrate Data Center systems not included in other projects to Nutanix environments.
- Replace remote office VMWare virtual environments with Nutanix systems.
- Review and develop architecture plans for Nutanix and Azure with vendor input.
- Review and develop plans for migration activities to Nutanix and Azure in conjunction with State Fund SMEs and vendor architects.
- Coordinate with other IT teams to research and resolve complex issues.
- Provide technical guidance and resources to other IT teams as needed.
- Escalate critical issues that impact pre-production and production systems when necessary.
- Perform post-event analysis to determine root cause and possible preventive measures. · Coordinate administrative, maintenance, and support activities of infrastructure to support IT and business initiatives.
- Lead, plan, develop, implement, and participate in project design, system administration, maintenance, and support essential to the mission of State Fund.
- Develop automation using tools such as Ansible and Python to streamline routine tasks. · Ensure designs meet best practice security guidelines.
- Optimize systems for performance based on their use case.
- Optimize State Fund spending in Azure to prevent overspend.
- Assist State Fund management in proactively managing vendor resources.
- Lead design discussions, research, identify, and provide recommendations on solutions and best practices to improve or resolve mission-critical systems and issues.
- Coordinate with other IT teams to research and resolve complex issues.
- Perform post-event analysis to determine root cause and possible preventative measures.
- Act as a lead role in projects assigned by management.
- Participate in problem management and root cause analysis and maintain 24x7 availability and monitoring of business system servers.
- Provide after-hours maintenance and support, whenever required.
- Participate in the on-call rotation with other Server Operations staff.
Job Type:
Contract
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