Sr. VMware L3 Engineer

Senior VMware L3 Engineer

Location – San Jose, CA – Remote till Pandemic

Long Term Contract role

Rate: $/hr 

US Citizens and Green Card holders are preferred - No Third Party

Job Description:

• Should have knowledge about Cisco UCS servers with 5+ years of experience, Ex – CISCO experience is must required.

• Hands on experience in Cisco ACI, APIC and AVS to AVE migration

• Solid understanding of Cisco products for compute and networking at expert level

• Should able to provide expert guidance to L2 in case required .Candidate should able to address

• all Operational issue , should be a self a starter and take ownership of the issue and provide updates to Cisco Managers in case required

• Strong Linux background (L3)

• Should have good knowledge of Open stack (not at SME level)

• Should have good hands on of VMware at SME level

• Strong Operations experience.

• Candidate should have experience on Migration from VMware to other Hypervisor…should have exposure to transition things to cloud from various other sources.

• Seasoned professional with core exposure on RHEL and Ubuntu, operating system.

• Working exposure on Linux native cluster (OR) VCS cluster platform.

• Sound troubleshooting knowledge for multipathing issues, file system related issues, and storage related scenarios.

• Ability to identify/handle chronic issue and to provide workaround or resolution accordingly.

• To get the RCA done and to identify/highlight the risks accordingly.

• Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.

• Ability to identify any flow in process and to provide process fine-tuning.

• Experience in deployment, patching, and kernel upgrade of Unix/Linux operating system.

• Ability to lead the team and to manage the given shift, ability to handle customer escalations, should own the ongoing priorities and drive/direct team accordingly.

• Required excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to document project specific technical requirements and configurations

• Good python scripting skills – 3+ years in Python development