Sr. Staff SW Engineer

Sr. Staff SW Engineer - VMWare Administrator

Location: India - Hybrid
Department: Engineering
City: Guindy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Gigamons Central Engineering QA team has the mission of defining and developing a well-managed VMware virtualized environment with ESXi/NSX-T platform and to provide the simplest experience for the engineering team to consume & qualify the Gigamon visibility solution. In this role, the VMware administrator has to bring up Data Center / Network Virtualization and also bring in enterprise class monitoring of the setup. We are looking for candidates to have exposure to VMware virtualized environment bring-up and administration.

In this role, the VMware Administrator is expected to have expertise / command over the Data Center / Network Virtualization/ Security defined and capable of performing installation, implementation, customization, operation, recovery and performance tuning.

• 7 years of experience supporting enterprise infrastructure required, and having certifications on the working domain.
• Working experience of bringing-up VMware virtualized setup from bare metal and managing the same. VMware certification is a plus.
• Good understanding of Unix fundamentals, storage, networking and load balancing.
• Knowledge and ideas on how to build infrastructure, support & monitor and bring in efficiency in every possible way.

• Proficient in controlling administrator rights on VM Infrastructure, Use of VMware Converter Enterprise and overview.
• 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 Centre Installation and configuration and Installation of its components.

• Developing, maintaining, and supporting networks in NSX/NSX-T.
• Implementing networking and VXLAN technologies.
• Monitoring the automation of network deployment and configuration, along with the integration of infrastructure (computer/storage) automation.
• Configuring and monitoring network security layer.
• Experience supporting enterprise-class monitoring with monitoring tools for network/systems/application monitoring, ability to write custom scripts/plugins for custom monitoring a plus.
• Proficient in scripting ESX Server deployments for remote installation and security in a VMware Virtualized Environment.
• Ability to interface/support Engineering team during the development/pre-production integration testing.
• Strong technical/analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written across all user levels. Ability to create simple procedural documents.
• Good team player, self-starter, goal-oriented, open-minded, flexible and customer-focused.
• Good problem-solving abilities focus on quality & self-directed work style with minimum supervision.
• Ability to coordinate and work with a global team in different time zones.

• Experience interfacing with Linux container environments such as Kubernetes, Tanzu is a plus.

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