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Title : Wintel / VMWare System Administrator
Location : Houston TX-onsite( M-F)
Must Have VMWare + Windows Server Admin
Roles and Responsibilities
The Senior VMWare System Administrator shall have strong proficiency in the installation, configuration, and
management of VMWare clusters using vSphere v6.5 and above supporting greater than 5000+ VMWare Virtual
Responsible for leading and managing the administrative and design tasks for the virtualized & Microsoft server infrastructure
Deploys, configures, and maintains VMware infrastructure. Plans and manages workloads, projects, and other administrative tasks associated with the VMware & Server team.
VMware Administrator would be responsible for handling VMWare L2, L3 tickets and Tasks such as VM Commissioning, VMware Tools upgrade.
To provide technical support to clients at all times, and must respond promptly to issues reported by clients,
conducting root cause analysis and going through various testing scenarios for thorough resolution.
Develop and maintain operational documentation and specifications on system builds, disaster recovery, and standard operating procedures.
Manage & Administration of Disaster Recovery using SRM, Veeam, Zerto tool.
Good Understanding of shared storage technologies including SAN, NAS, Fiber channel, iSCSI, and NFS.
Manage and administration of DELL / Cisco UCS / HP h/w and Blade servers
Primary responsibility to deploy patches with ESXi Servers on time.
Drive root cause analysis and provide feedback to improve future customer architecture changes.
Drive customer escalated issues to closure by providing workarounds and fixes in a timely manner.
Enhance customer satisfaction by responding to all customer filed issues specific to VMWARE & Windows and
providing relief either through self or by driving visibility of the issues upstream to ensure they get fixed.
Improve product supportability and serviceability by actively participating in new design development to provide
feedback to drive increased stability of VMware and Windows platforms for enhanced customer satisfaction.
An ability to learn new technologies quickly Good time management skills with strong documentation skills.
Good communication skills both written and verbal.
Administration of DNS, DHCP, WINS, VMware/Hyper-V and related components
Identify opportunities for efficiencies in work process and innovative approaches to completing scope of work
Provide on-site support at data centre for infrastructure maintenance activities
Working knowledge in Scripting and Automation
Patching experience in SSCM, WSUS, Shavlik Protect/ BMC BladeLogic Work with Local & Global Teams
Perform in 24 x 7 environment in shift roaster and attend calls whenever assigned
Expected Skills / Experience
Minimum of 6-10 years' administration experience on Virtualization technology.
Administration of VMware technologies including, but not limited to, vSphere, SRM, Update Manager, vRealize Operation Manager, vRealize Network Insight, vRealize Log Insight, Zerto, Veeam, Turbonomics.
Strong understanding and knowledge of ESXi Virtual Hosts, strong conceptual knowledge of VMware vCenter,
Good hands on experience on Windows Platform with 2022/2019/2016/2012/2008 operating systems.
Strong knowledge on install, configure and manage Microsoft Windows OS, AD,DNS,DFS,NLB and Cluster.
Design, Configure and manage the File Server / Print server / RDS / DFS / AD / DNS / DHCP / IIS / FTP / NLB /
Cluster services in Windows(2008/2012/2016/2019/2022)
Strong Knowledge of Troubleshooting skills on Windows server (Blue Screen Errors, performance & capacity
issues, permissions issues)
Scripting knowledge /experience in VB Script, PowerShell will be added advantage.
Handling escalated incidents or high critical tickets providing RCA.
Predicting Risk/Impact and Participating in Major Changes.
Handling 3rd party for underpinning contract SLA's
Should have good knowledge in Managing Cisco UCS blades, Dell & HPE servers.
Knowledge on Cisco UCS blade chassis, Service Profile, VLAN configuration
Ability to setup of resource pools and a VMware Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS) cluster, Resource
Management, Resource Monitoring along with VMware High Availability (HA) cluster.
Proven experience in ESX Server Installation and configuration of virtual switches, network connections and port
groups configure Storage
Expertise in Virtual Center Installation and configuration and Installation of its components Perform Level 3
Support & troubleshooting with ESXi Operating system.
Proficient in scripting ESX Server deployments for remote installation and security in a VMware Virtualized Environment
Demonstrable experience in Install / Upgrade ESXi platform environment and experience ESXi servers patching
using Update Manager.
Administration & understanding of storage architectures, including peripheral interfaces (SCSI, RAID, Ethernet)
and multi-processor designs (SMP)
Experience in managing Mid-range/Enterprise Servers Hardware
Experience in Production Server Environment with Wintel servers.
Strong Knowledge about user administration and File system management activities.
Experience in OS Hardening, performance and OS tuning.
Fair Knowledge on backup solutions VERITAS, Netbackup, IBM TSM, HP DP or EMC Networker (At least one).
Basic knowledge on Storage and SAN switches.
Patch management, RCA analysis, Application installs and upgrades following procedures documented by
application owners Meeting SLA in time to fix the errors and problems.
Good Knowledge of Cluster Administration and should be able to Perform Root Cause Analysis for the incidents • Fair knowledge and working experience in SCVMM-2012/2016 & 2019 • Experience in Production Server Environment with Wintel servers. •
Good communication skills both written and verbal.
Remote support management. • Vendor Management.
Knowledge of ITIL Process
Additional Qualification / Skills :
Strong Knowledge on Monitoring tools like MOM, SCOM.etc. is an added advantage.
VMWARE / Microsoft Windows / Hyper-V certifications are an added advantage.
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