Cap Bon's Client looking for Contract Infrastructure Operations Engineer
MUST be local to New York and New Jersey.
The Infrastructure Operations Engineer is responsible for monitoring, remediating and reporting of multiple different Infrastructure items. The main technologies include compute, storage and visualization (server and desktop).This person will work closely with the internal team and other automation, monitoring and ticketing teams.
Major Responsibilities:
- Responsible to perform daily health checks of core infrastructure components with remediation or escalation to other team members
- Work with monitoring team to ensure that all alerts are accurate and have applicable workflows/runbooks
- Work with management to create reports and dashboards
- Responsible to create automation from workflows and modify adjust automation as needed
- Responsible for resource allocation to virtual machines and storage infrastructure
- Responsible for patching of all the Microsoft systems, and ensure we follow IT standards and security policies
- Manage the Virtualization/Storage/Compute Support queue, and deal with escalations from both internal and external teams and act as subject matter expert in VMware, NetApp and Cisco UCS
- Receive and respond to incoming calls, pages, and/or e-mails regarding all technologies
- Responsible for automating manual tasks using new or existing tool sets
- Responsible to ensure all regulated items like SOX backups are successful and in working order
- Perform root cause analysis for production incidents.
- Promote a DevOps culture within the company. Driving automation and a root cause culture to improve our overall environment
- Keep system documentation and playbooks up to date and accurate
- Developing tools and processes to improve the overall user experience
- Triage security exceptions with security team
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
- 2+ years relevant work experience
- Certifications in VMware, Cisco UCS and/or NetApp
- High level scripting in multiple languages to be able to create and debug scripts to perform job functions. Automation experience in at least one configuration management and deployment tools such as Puppet or Ansible
- Strong fundamental knowledge of supporting technologies, including Network, Hardware, Virtualization and other enterprise software
- Ability to prioritize and effectively manage multiple tasks
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Must work well in a high-pressure environment and keep cool under stress.
- Must be a self-starter and able to follow-up from issue to resolution.
Software
VMware Suite including:
- vSphere (vcenter and esxi)
- Horizon
- vRealize Suite
- SRMNetApp Suite:
- Data OnTap 9.x
- OnCommand Insight
- Cloud Volumes (Azure)
- Cisco UCS
- Rubrik / Commvault / NetBackup
- Windows / Linux
- Lakeside
- OpsRamp
- Tools to monitor system performance
- MS office suite
- Outlook
- Visio
- Trading applications
- Acrobat
- PowerShell scripting
Location: New York/New Jersey