About this role
The VMware Operations team is part of Cloud Operations and provides 24x7x365 management and Support for American Express Enterprise VMware Virtual Infrastructure. The Infrastructure Engineer position will provide day to day operational support for VMware OS and associated operations. This team will manage vCenter & ESXi hosts throughout the delivery lifecycle and will execute daily operations like upgrades, monitoring, hardware & tools management, scripting for routine tasks and delivery of reliable, robust support solutions.
•Minimum 12+ years proven experience of managing large enterprise level VMware Environment
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/Management Information Systems or equivalent experience preferred
• VMware & Nutanix certification is preferred.
• Working with virtualization technologies, such as VMware, Nutanix (Prism Central, Prism Element, AOS, NCC, Foundation, LCM), UCS & vSAN, vROPs, vLog Insight, VRO.
• Clear understanding of networking protocols such as TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, NIC Teaming and distributed switches. Working understanding of SAN, NAS, NFS, VMFS, iSCSI.
• Experience in VMware Guests, Templates, P2V, Capacity Planner, VMotion, HA, DRS, etc.
• Good Understanding of Virtual infrastructure security Hardening & compliance including certificates for the overall virtualized environment.
• Experience on Dell, Intel, Cisco, HP Servers and associated management tools like, Dell OME/SAE, HP OneView.
• Basic understanding on cloud service platforms and concepts around the same.