Linux VMware Operations Engineer

November 10

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

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⚙️ Operations

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Knowledge Management • Business Intelligence • Program Management • Portfolio Management • Defense and Civilian Sectors

501 - 1000 employees

Description

• The Senior Linux VMWare Operations Engineer will support the client’s Infrastructure Services Division’s (ISD) Operating Systems Operations Section (OSOS) by performing administration and maintenance activities on over 8000 RHEL/HPUX/AIX servers in use. • Ensure proper planning and execution of major projects and O&M (operations and maintenance) activities. • Mentor and direct junior staff in the course of daily assignments and projects to promote a collaborative learning environment. • Troubleshoot hardware, Operating System, and software problems with Linux and VMWare servers. • Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures for server builds, configurations, and scheduled maintenance activities. • Provide suggestions and best practices for various activities and communicate them to stakeholders at various technical levels. • Install and configure ESXi hypervisors, vCenter servers, create data centers, clusters, add hosts, and configure their firewall, services and advanced settings. • Setup and configure virtual switches, port groups, and VLANs in VMWare. • Configure HA, DRS and setup affinity rules on each VMWare cluster as needed. • Perform storage expansion, migration, and reclamations on block storage from SAN, familiarity with boot-from-SAN on RHEL is preferred. • Perform cyber-security remediation and server hardening as needed. • Write custom shell scripts to poll server inventory for health and configuration data within the environment. • Work on assigned change requests/incident tickets. • Investigate and responding to alerts generated by the various monitoring systems in use at USPTO. • Evaluate and implementing potential new tools and technologies. • Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot all issues that might arise in the VMware virtual environment. • Install and troubleshoot physical and virtual server’s performance and connectivity issues. • Patch and update hypervisor’s baseline using Update Manager. • Perform Cisco UCS service profile migration. • Maintain documentation for processes and procedures as required. • Perform detailed analysis of incidents - utilize log management tools and performance data to author and submit RCA (Root Cause Analysis) reports following service outages. • Perform hardware repair procedures and activities.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS • 7+ years of experience with VMWare vCenter and ESXi hypervisors • 5+ years of experience supporting Tomcat, Apache, JBoss, Oracle, and MySQL. • Knowledge of Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) or oVirt • Knowledge of Cisco UCS and managing systems via UCSCentral • Ability to write shell scripts in bash. • Ability to write custom Ansible playbooks and run them across the environment • RHCE Certification is highly recommended • VCP Certification is highly recommended • Experience in supervision of teams and personnel • Rocky Linux (or other Open Source Enterprise Linux) • Red Hat Satellite 6 or Katello • Red Hat Identity Management (IDM) or FreeIPA • Foreman • Puppet • Powershell/PowerCLI • HP-UX • IBM AIX • Windows Server • A Bachelor’s Degree is strongly preferred.