Systems VMware Engineer

Our client is located in Chicago, IL

VMware Engineer for a Full Time role in Chicago, IL

 As our VMware Systems Engineer Consultant, you will be responsible for the design, implementation and support of the VMware infrastructure for the corporate campus in Chicago and field locations around the country. You will define, maintain, communicate, and implement standards consistent with established architecture and strategy.

Our client is a large bank located in Chicago. 4-5 days a week on site and remote work as well. 

Our client will assist with travel needed for interviews and relations as well to Chicago.

if you or anyone you know would be interested please email me at - [email protected] 

Who you’ll work with:

In this role, you will be part of the VMware and Cisco UCS Team and will work closely with the following teams:

• Open Systems, Windows Server, and various others to provide a virtual platform for RHEL, Windows, and appliances using VMware ESXi . 

• Network and Storage teams to create/support the virtual platform 

• Desktop Support as part of supporting the overall virtual desktop infrastructure 

• Onsite 24/7 Enterprise Operations Center to enable them to provide level 1 support. 

• Project Management Office to create high-level resource plans used to staff projects. 

• Enterprise Architecture to create capability roadmaps and perform vendor evaluations 

• Team members who are SME’s for our Cisco UCS implementation 

• Various application teams as part of performance evaluation and tuning 

Outside of ESXi the Team utilizes other software products such as VMware vCOPs to manage the virtual infrastructure performance and capacity, vCenter Orchestrator to automate routine VMware tasks and the provisioning of Windows and RHEL systems, and will soon deploy and support Veeam Backup as the primary mechanism for backing-up all virtual machines.

Inside and outside the organization, you will establish and maintain strong collaborative relationships with strategic partners as well as critical IT infrastructure service providers. That can also entail coordinating activities with vendors as required.

What you’ll bring

As a VMware Systems Engineer Lead, you should have 5+ years progressive x86 server, VMware, and either RHEL or Windows experience. 2+ years’ experience with Cisco UCS is also required. In addition, you should have a Bachelor’s Degree in a related technical field or similar discipline.

Technical Skills

• Ability to design and implement an enterprise-wide virtual infrastructure using ESXi v5 

• Ability to design and implement an enterprise-wide Cisco UCS solution is a strong plus, not must have 

• vSphere and vCenter 

• Distributed virtual switch configuration 

• HA, DRS, server and storage vMotion 

• SAN and disk configuration and troubleshooting 

• Network configuration and troubleshooting 

• Capacity management and system tuning 

• Experience with vSphere Auto Deploy 

• VMware Horizon View 

BACKGROUND CHECK AND DRUG TESTING REQUIRED

vmware, systems 

Lawrence E. Harmon
Business Development/Recruiter
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