Job description

Position: Systems Engineer - Infrastructure Virtualization

Intro: If you are looking to get out of your monotonous job and into something more interesting and challenging, then maybe we can help each other. U-Haul IT is growing, and we are looking to expand our personnel. This is NOT an entry level position however and will require that you come pre-equipped with certain skills, knowledge and experience which is further described below.

Primary Duty: Engineering and designing solutions for our virtualization and storage environments, as well as developing documentation and training for our IT Operations teams.

Requirements:

• Fluent English, and high oral and written communication skills.

• Experience with network storage technologies such as NAS, iSCSI, FC, FCOE, and NVMeOF in regard to VMware requirements.

• Extensive experience with VMware ESX and VSphere 6.0+ deployment, configuration, and maintenance in production environments.

• Strong knowledge and understanding of enterprise-class server solutions such as Dell EMC rack servers, Lenovo servers, and Nutanix HCI.

• Advanced knowledge in Windows Server or Linux and related technologies.

• Experience with containerization like Kubernetes, Docker or Tanzu.

• Experience or understanding of network Virtualization like: NSX-T or NSX-V.

• Experience in system and network management and monitoring tools.

• Advanced knowledge of DNS, DHCP, SMTP, SNMP and other TCP/IP protocols and services in support of the virtualization and storage technologies.

• Advanced experience in automating deploying Servers on VMware and the optimization of these platforms.

• Experience and knowledge in scripting languages such as PowerShell, Perl, and VBScript.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively interact with all IT Infrastructure groups.

• Experience in data protection solutions such as Veeam, Zerto, Cohesity, and Rubrik.

• Advanced troubleshooting methodology, identifying, researching, and resolving technical problems.

• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment and make sound decisions in emergency situations.

• Ability to be on-call for Operations teams for escalations.

Responsibilities:

• Assist with maintaining the enterprise virtualization environment (VMware), including troubleshooting, performance monitoring and optimization, capacity, and continuity planning.

• Deploy, support, and troubleshoot vSphere (ESXi, vCenter, and other VMware associated technologies).

• Creation and management of OS gold images meeting compliance and business standards.

• Develop and maintain company standard server technology policies to ensure compliance with security and capacity standards.

• Facilitate knowledge sharing by creating and maintaining detailed, comprehensive documentation and diagrams

• Maintain an expert level of knowledge of infrastructure expertise by maintaining current certifications, attending seminars or though other related activities

• Respond quickly and effectively to production issues and take responsibility for seeing issues through resolution

• Participate in project planning, design and maintenance of IT Infrastructure

• Researching and sourcing new technologies, providing architectural advice / recommendations to IT management and steering committee to improve the infrastructure environments

• Participate in an on-call rotation for support of systems outside of normal business hours

• Assist in the DR (Disaster Recovery) planning of a multi-site Virtualization and Storage infrastructure along with DR planning for local sites where IT Infrastructure equipment present

• Participate in Post-Mortem meetings to discuss any outage occurrences, develop safeguards, and where appropriate, implement any recommended changes to avoid reoccurrence

• Mentor and provide training to other team members within the engineering and operational teams, and coordinate and plan maintenance and upgrades with Operational Teams.

• Provide input to security policies. Proactively monitor for patch compliance and analyze patches for compatibility and approve implementation/changes.

• Work with security compliance teams, implement and maintain secure platforms to adhere to HIPAA, SOX and PCI-DSS requirements. Implement and maintain monitoring systems and tools which are required for HIPAA, SOX and PCI-DSS.

Experiences with, or having the following is a plus:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology (will consider technical training/job experience equivalents).

• Experience and proficiency in managing and maintaining medium to large sized environments.

• Experience with Active Directory and other authentication methods utilizing password-based, multi-factor, certificate-based, and token-based authentication methods.

• Experience with Zerto

• FreeNAS, unRaid, Synology

• Ansible, Ansible Tower, AWX, Puppet, Chef, Terraform

• Public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud solutions

• Experience managing or integrating with public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Experience supporting multiple data centers

• Experience working in ITIL based process model (Incident, Change and Request Fulfillment)

• Familiarity with Application Monitoring (Dynatrace, Telegraf, LogBeat, Kibana, Grafana)

• Familiarity with .Net / .Net Core application development,

• IIS (Internet Information Service)

• Kubernetes, Database in Containers

• NGINX, AVI, Kemp, F5 Load Balancing

• Nutanix HCI

• Apache Kafka, ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

• VMware certifications such as VCP

• Microsoft certifications such as MCP, MCITP, MCSE, MCSA

• Veeam certifications such as VMCE

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Phoenix, AZ 85004: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

• What are your salary expectations for this position?

Experience:

• VMWare: 3 years (Preferred)
• NAS, iSCSI, FC, FCOE, NVMeOF: 3 years (Preferred)
• ESXi: 3 years (Preferred)
• Kubernetes, Docker, Tanzu: 3 years (Preferred)
• NSX-T or NSX-V: 3 years (Preferred)
• DNS, DHCP, SMTP, SNMP, TCP/IP: 3 years (Preferred)
• PowerShell, Perl, VBScript: 3 years (Preferred)
• Veeam, Zerto, Cohesity, Rubrik: 3 years (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

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