Virtualization Engineer

Title: Virtualization Engineer

Location: Charlotte, NC - Hybrid

Duration/Type of Job: 12+ months

Key Responsibilities:

• Hyper-V Design architecture, Design and maintenance.
• Recommending and instituting optimizations to the Hyper-V virtualization environment
• Interpreting Hyper-V performance trends for capacity planning purposes.
• Hardware monitoring and Alerting
• Evaluation of new tools and methodologies to better manage the virtualization infrastructure.
• Heavily Involved in automation and scripting of processes
• Partnering with the Active Directory Operations team to implement changes to the Active Directory virtualization infrastructure.
• Creation, Documentation and Deployment of Baselines

Qualifications:

• Experience with Windows Server 2022, 2019, 2016, and 2012 \ Active Directory 2012R2, 2016 and 2019.
• Extensive experience with Hyper-V and SCVMM.
• Extensive Experience in the creation and development of PowerShell scripts for automation of systems administration.
• Solid understanding of Hyper-V performance analysis tools and methods.
• Hands on experience tuning Hyper-V for a data center environment
• Knowledge of developing/maintaining Windows OS builds
• Experience engineering, designing, and testing storage (i.e. S2D, etc.) and networks for a virtual environment.
• Experience with HP hardware particularly around planning and deploying firmware updates and ILO integration/automation
• Experience developing policies, procedures, and standards pertaining to the Hyper-V infrastructures.
• Experience creating technical and process documentation.
• Superior problem solving, design, and analytical skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to convert concepts and technical aspects into easy to understand/follow processes.
• Ability to quickly shift between varying activities without loss of productivity
• Architecture experience with a global 2016 Active Directory infrastructure, at a senior level.
• Knowledge of the internetworking of clients and Active Directory (name resolution, Kerberos \ NTLM Authentication, etc.)
• Working Knowledge of Windows Technologies (e.g., Storage Spaces, BitLocker, Windows Firewall, clustering)
• Solid understanding or network technologies (e.g., VLANs and Subnets, Routing, IPsec).
• Solution design, capacity planning, and performance tuning experience
• Working Knowledge of Microsoft SQL technologies (SSRS, SSIS, and T-SQL queries).
• Experience with PKI & certificates.
• Experience with DMZ and secure communications
• Knowledge of IPsec communications and OS firewall settings
• Familiarity with reading network traces.
• Basic project management

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