Senior Software Engineer

Education Required Engineering Graduate in Computer Science /IT or Postgraduate in computer science/application. 

Primary Skills Required: 

Ansible, Python, Linux, VMware ESX Servers, Red Hat, Storage Capacity Management, GitHub, Yaml, Communications, Windows Servers, API, Kubernetes, Docker, MSSQL, IBM WebSphere Application Server, OSV, CI/CD, Storage Management, git, Network Protocols & Standards, Tekton, Microsoft Windows & OpenShift. 

Additional qualification/certification Preferred 

• VMware DCV certification 

• Red Hat OSV certification 

• Red Hat CSA certification 

• CKA – Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Responsibilities

Experience Required: Technical Qualifications:

• Overall 10+ years in IT development/operations/support/migrations 

• 5+ years of experience with OpenShift Virtualization/automation - Knowledge about containers/pods - Deep insight about K8s - Virtual Machine management - Knowledge about PVCs and Operators 

• 3+ Years of experience with Tekton Pipelines for Automation 

• 5+ years of experience with Git repo mgmt. and usage. 

• 3+ years of experience with Argo CD knowledge 

• 3+ years of creating/managing Ansible playbooks 

• 3+ years of PowerShell, Ansible & Yaml scripting 

• 3+ years of managing Dockers 

• 3+ Years of experience with VMWare vSphere ESXi, vCenter, vROPS 

• 3+Years of experience working with VMware & Red Hat Server Infrastructure server hardware and related network components.

 
• 3+ Years of experience working in a Global/Large VMware environment. 

• Infrastructure Experience with servers, network, storage, database, and backups.

 
• Experience in SQL Server, WebSphere, Windows OS, Linux OS. 

• Familiar with PowerCLI and API calls via code.

Additional Experience Preferred:

Experience Required 

- Basic Qualifications: 

• Virtual server computing infrastructure knowledge. 

• Scripting experience with PowerShell, Ansible & Yaml 

• Enterprise Datacenter server hosting server experience or Hosting Infrastructure.

 
• Windows server or Linux operating system. 

• Ability to work with a variety of cross functional teams to support deployment to remote locations. 

• Proven track record of organizing and leading projects involving VMware/Red Hat or related infrastructure technologies for a large enterprise. 

• Exceptional technical writing skills (run books, DR plans, platform architecture, etc.) 

• Familiar with Ford Agile delivery concepts. 

• Strong communication skills.

 
• Willingness to learn new technologies 

• Good team player working with Global team

Qualifications

Primary Skills Required Responsibilities: 

• Architect/design and support the installation, and administration of virtualization VMware & Red Hat OSV suite of products. 

• Responsible for the entire lifecycle of the technologies globally including infrastructure security vulnerability patching, planning, designing, implementation, maintenance, upgrades and decommissioning of hardware and software. 

• Engineer, test and document procedures, monitoring, logging, disaster recovery process and security policies and guidelines 

• Demonstrates knowledge of a broad range of hardware and software products. 

• Research industry best practices and trends.
• Provide operational support of all global infrastructure hosting solution on VMware & Red Hat OSV server platforms. 

• Provide consulting services to OS support teams and application teams as required for performance review and production outage root cause analysis. 

• Global deployment of VMware & Red Hat infrastructure platform server components - ESXi, vCenter, vRops, Red Hat OSV, Red Hat migrations, Red Hat Operators 

•Global deployment of security vulnerability patches on VMware infrastructure platform server components (ESXi, vCenter, vRops)

 
• Lead or participate in server engineering projects (e.g. automation, shared virtualization farms, capacity on demand, technology refresh, etc.) 

• Lead or participate in server operations projects (e.g. ESX host upgrades, vCenter upgrades, affinity rule rollout, VM resource adds, VM restores, etc.)