VMware & Linux Admin

Serving as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) and Individual Contributor, this role provides high-level technical expertise across the entire operational lifecycle of the enterprise VMware and Linux ecosystems. The incumbent is responsible for ensuring the stability, performance, and resilience of these environments through proactive monitoring, complex troubleshooting, and change planning. Additionally, this position acts as an Enterprise Storage administrator, overseeing the organization’s Network Attached Storage (NAS) infrastructure., * Manage the VMware infrastructure, including VM provisioning.

• Provide technical expertise and expert guidance for Linux.

• Perform timely patches, tuning, and upgrades to VMware and Linux including firmware upgrades at the system and device levels.

• Monitor system performance to proactively resolve issues before they become critical.

• Assist other technical teams as needed to maintain operational integrity.

• Provide subject matter expertise, mentoring, and overall system health information to leadership, customers, and coworkers.

• Manage Incident tickets and Service Requests in the relevant queues.

• Provide performance reports, capacity usage reports, issue resolution summaries, detailed documentation of processes and procedures, or troubleshooting guides as requested.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Analytical Rigor & Initiative: Demonstrates advanced logical reasoning and a meticulous approach to complex problem-solving. Operates with high autonomy, proactively identifying and executing initiatives to optimize the technical environment.

• Collaborative Communication: Facilitates effective cross-functional collaboration, with a proven ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders while maintaining detailed technical documentation.

• Systems Observability: Proficient in leveraging observability toolsets to transform raw monitoring metrics and security requirements into actionable operational strategies.

• Virtualization & Infrastructure: Comprehensive expertise in VMware ecosystems, including hardware troubleshooting, advanced networking/VLAN configurations, and vSAN hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). Adept at managing the full VM lifecycle, including vSphere cluster deployment and guest migrations from platforms like Hyper-V.

• Linux Administration: Demonstrated mastery of Linux environments, including CLI-based configuration, patch management, and advanced troubleshooting.

• Storage Operations: Expert in managing enterprise-scale storage lifecycles, including DR planning and high-availability protection strategies. Skilled in implementing storage-level security, focusing on encryption-at-rest/motion, granular access controls, and operational efficiency, Candidates must have:

• 5 to 7 years of VMware vSphere with vSAN operations experience.

• 3 to 5 years of hands-on Linux system administration experience.

• 2 to 3 years of hands-on enterprise storage management experience. Candidates with experience in these specific technologies will receive special consideration:

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat Satellite.

• AWS EC2 Administration.

• Recent, hands-on experience with NetApp FAS/AFF hardware arrays, Infrastructure Insights and Storage Workload Security (formerly Cloud Insights and Cloud Secure), and Superna DefendX.

• Red Hat Openshift Container Platform on premises or in AWS.