Whole Foods Market Information Technology Team is looking for a talented individual to provide support of our enterprise VMWare and Windows Server infrastructure and services. This is a technical role on a team with dedicated and passionate engineers supporting our Windows Server and virtualization services. 
This position will be based with the Global Technology Team in Austin, TX.

Responsibilities:

• Design, install, and maintain Windows Servers.
• Experience with VMWare administration including ESXi host builds, upgrades, and migrations.
• Design and architecting high-availability and disaster recovery solutions
• Train and mentor other system administrators; serve as point of escalation for system issues.
• Troubleshoot system malfunctions and/or other unplanned outages, and provide analysis and recommendations for resolution and prevention
• Management of VMware capacity including forecasting and demand management.
• Experience with provisioning and cloning virtual machines.
• Maintain the integrity and security of servers and systems.
• Experience with maintaining and restoring virtual machine "backups" and snapshots.
• Experience evaluating and tuning for maximum performance and high availability.
• Experience with performing ongoing security checks to maintain security, integrity, and backup routines.
• Experience should include troubleshooting, security, Group Policy design and implementation.
• Experience providing configuration management and security compliance for the virtual infrastructure software and hardware.
• Develop PowerShell scripts for administration tasks.
• Partner with other Infrastructure Team Members to learn, develop and enhance the skills needed to support software-based Infrastructure. 
• Collaborate with internal Infrastructure Teams to resolve escalated support issues.
• Be self-directed, provide detailed estimates and work breakdown of typical activities leveraging an agile framework.
• Take part in an after-hours on-call support rotation and implement solutions, patching and deployment activities after hours, as needed.
• Adhere to established security, support, and testing policies and procedures
• Keep current through contacts with professional societies and technical publications.
• Maintain awareness of applicable new technologies, processes, and competitive trends.
• Develop and maintain relationships with partner companies. 
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with internal Infrastructure, Application and Business partner teams in order to facilitate effective technology implementations.
• Maintain technical expertise in Microsoft, VMware, and virtualization technologies.
• Research and follow industry trends around Server Engineering and provide recommendations that influence our strategic plans.
• Experience provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with Windows Server operating systems
• 5+ years of experience with VMware
• 2+ years of experience with PowerShell scripting.
• 2+ years of experience with AWS.
• B.S. Degree in Computer Science or related IT work experience in a high-uptime, enterprise environment.

At Whole Foods Market, we provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all Team Members and candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, marital status, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. Whole Foods Market hires and promotes individuals solely based on qualifications for the position to be filled and business needs.