Vmware System Administrator

**VMware**
**System Administrator** who has the skills, qualifications, and commitment to help us achieve this goal. If you are looking to join an exceptional team of dedicated professionals driven by a desire to deliver world-class customer service we welcome you to consider joining our team at QAD.

**What You’ll Do**:

- Design, maintain and document complex QAD systems environments and system performance measurement.
- Perform daily monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting of backup jobs on platforms (CommVault, Veeam, Avamar, Windows, VMware, and UNIX servers).
- Examine backup software performance and monitoring of scheduled backups to ensure success or take remedial action for failures
- Configure backup policy for new backup clients.
- Perform regular DR (Disaster Recovery) test plan of backup data restoration and storage replication availability.
- Perform offsite tape recall when needed for backup recovery.
- Provide evidence for annual external and internal audit requirements.
- Maintain Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for systems uptime and ongoing monitoring and maintenance of all Cloud Customer environments in a 24/7 on-call team.
- Maximize performance through ongoing and ad hoc system examination.
- Provide direct and indirect customer interaction and response to tickets.
- Recommend best practice around cloud Infrastructure systems.
- Disseminate knowledge and experiences with the rest of the team.
- Administration of QAD Active directory and domain controllers
- Participates in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure. Ensures that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational values, enabling staff, volunteers, and Partners
- Maintain operational, configuration, or other procedures.
- Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.
- Maintain data centre environmental and monitoring equipment
- Endpoint Antivirus management and updates.
- Create and maintain reports for patch compliance and system audit data.
- Participate in OS patch management and coordination.

**What You’ll Need**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science.
- Should have VMware VCP certification.
- Minimum 5 years working extensively on VMware
- Hands-on experience with vSphere systems administration and support including VMotion, HA, DRS, V-center, and storage migrations.
- Must have knowledge on VMware Virtual Networks, VMware Virtual Switches and Port Groups.
- Good to have scripting experience on Python or Bash or Power-shell scripting.
- Strong knowledge of Redhat Enterprise Linux.
- Knowledge & experience in working on Windows 2016 / 2012 / 2008 server environment prefered.
- Hands-on experience on Active Directory Infrastructure, Group policy management and powershell script to automate system administration tasks.
- Strong Knowledge in Backup and storage products like Veeam, Commvault, Avamar, Netapp etc..
- Hands-on Working experience on Windows Software Update Service (WSUS).
- Hands-on experience on VmWare Infrastructure.
- Vmware server troubleshooting, Log analysis and root cause analysis for down situation.
- Must be able to work under pressure & meet deadlines.

**Who You Are**:

- You have a proactive and solution-oriented mindset.
- Your positive attitude has a strong impact and is infectious to the people you deal with.
- You are knowledgeable in software development processes and lifecycle management.
- You are able to handle some periods of high stress.
- Someone who can work in a 24/7 environment.
- Demonstrates experience in effectively presenting technical information to non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrates QAD core values - Partnership with Our Customers, Commitment to Excellence, Innovation, Global Teamwork, Integrity, and Respect for the person.

**What We Offer**:

- Your health and well being are important to us at QAD. We provide programs that help you strike a healthy work life balance.
- Opportunity to join a growing business, launching into its next phase of expansion and transformation.
- Collaborative culture of smart and hard-working people who support one another to get the job done.
- An atmosphere of growth and opportunity, where idea-sharing is always prioritized over level.
- Ongoing learning and development including the opportunity to complete industry certifications (paid for by us)
- Compensation packages based on experience and desired skill set

**About QAD**:
QAD Inc. is a spearheading provider of adaptive, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. Global manufacturers face ever-increasing disruption caused by technology-driven innovation and changing consumer preferences. In order to survive and thrive, manufacturers must be able to innovate and change business models at unprecedented rates of speed. QAD calls these companies Adaptive Manufacturing Enter