Systems Administrator - Virtual Infrastructure

The successful candidate must hold a valid Reliability level Security Clearance or be eligible for one.

The Senior System Administrator will have the following responsibilities:

• Provide expert Operations Management support for virtual infrastructure and IaC automation tools: VMware vSphere 8.x (VSAN and NSX-T), VMware SRM, EMC RP4VM, VMWare vRealize Orchestration and Automation, Ansible Tower, and Azure DevOps
• Configure real-time/continuous health monitoring on supported technologies
• Resolve incidents and problems related to supported technologies and integrations within SLA specifications
• Execute configuration management changes on supported technologies, as necessary
• Execute standardized request fulfilment within SLA specifications while identifying opportunities to promote task automation by recommending design and implementing features, while ensuring proper testing, and maintaining documentation or release notes
• Apply and maintain adequate cybersecurity controls supported technologies
• Apply and maintain adequate resiliency controls, including the creation and validation of IT Disaster Recovery plans
• Perform technology upgrades/updates/patching ensuring compliance with vendor provided compatibility matrices, and to maintain required cybersecurity controls
• Perform capacity management on IT infrastructure
• Respond to audit requests (i.e.: ad-hoc reporting)
• Perform supported technology functional testing and health checks during change, incident and other activities performed by other teams, as required
• Participate in on-call rotation, as required
• Other related activities and deliverables, as required

The Senior System Administrator must meet the following mandatory requirements:

• University degree or college diploma in computer science or a related field;
• A minimum of five (5) years of demonstrated experience working with VMware vSphere 8.x (VSAN and NSX-T), VMware SRM, EMC RP4VM, VMWare vRealize/Aria Orchestration and Automation, Ansible Tower, and Azure DevOps
• Demonstrated work experience in each of the following:
• A scripting language, such as PowerShell or Python and in creating automation scripts, deploying orchestration and automation processes and products
• Developing and supporting IAC (Infrastructure as Code) with tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Azure, etc.
• System administration (priority given for VxRail, VSAN, Dell PowerEdge support)
• Demonstrated ability to work individually or as part of a team
• Demonstrated experience with technical decision-making needed to support a 24/7/365, multi-tiered large-scale production environment
• Certificates in ITIL, TOGAF and Agile are all preferred;

If you are interested in applying to our Senior System Administrator, please submit your resume as soon as possible by clicking on the 'Apply with Adecco' button.

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