Beschreibung
We are currently looking for our client in Zurich an experienced VMWare consultant with VMWare certification to join the existing VISM organisation that has teams in all regions where our client does business. The open position is for the Swiss based team which covers Swiss restricted as well as international VMware farms. You will be Embedded in a following the Sun support model by managing the international VMware farms with a main focus on the Swiss infrastructure. The job includes on-call duty for the ESX infrastructure in Switzerland.
The VISM team provides second level support and has the focus on the ESX application layer. In your role as a VMware System Administrator you will work in a small VMware team of 5 members. You will join a fast growing infrastructure in dynamically environment where you will be involved in challenging projects. You will be responsible for the ESX 3.5 and ESXi 4.* infrastructure of the company. Your open and approachable nature helps you to collaborate with your international team members and customers.
Task & Responsibilities:
- Virtual farm capacity management
- VM Provisioning process using tools like EVM by ManagedIQ
- Manage Large global VMWare environment as part of a global service delivery team
- Work closely with Engineering group to bring environment to standard
- Proactive investigation of all aspects of environment to minimize downtime
- Document technical procedures
- Develop scripts to report and solve operational problems
- Evaluation of tools
- Perform P2V and V2V
- Manage global technical projects in virtual platform
- Perform virtual hardware upgrade
Required Experience/Skills:
Certified VMware Professional and extensive experience in VMware ESX 3.5 and ESXi 4.* (senior level)
Good command of English and German (optional), written and spoken
Know-how on Windows Server, Linux, Solaris, SQL and Storage (SAN/NAS)
Self-consistent, assertive and approachable
Ideally you worked in global enterprise organisation already
- Experience building Servers on ESX platform
- Knowledge on Windows and Linux Operating Systems
- Understanding of HP blades and chassis hardware
- Understanding of networking concept
- Understanding of backup and recovery of VMs