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Job Summary:
RIT Solutions, Inc. is seeking a highly skilled Sr Data Center Implementation Engineer with expertise in VMware and Cisco UCS systems. The role involves deploying, configuring, and maintaining VMware environments, managing Cisco UCS hardware, and ensuring optimal performance and scalability in enterprise environments.
Responsibilities:
• Design, implement, and manage VMware vSphere and vCenter environments.
• Plan and execute the migration of VMware ESXi workloads to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).
• Use VMware tools and best practices to facilitate seamless migration from ESXi to VCF, ensuring minimal downtime and no data loss.
• Configure and optimize VMware ESXi hosts, clusters, and virtual machines on VCF platforms for performance and scalability.
• Oversee the deployment and management of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), integrating it with existing VMware environments.
• Manage and maintain VCF components, including vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and vRealize Suite, to provide a fully automated cloud infrastructure platform.
• Monitor VCF health, capacity, and performance, and provide recommendations for optimization.
• Implement, configure, and maintain Cisco UCS hardware, including servers, fabric interconnects, and chassis.
• Create and manage server profiles and policies within Cisco UCS Manager.
• Troubleshoot and perform firmware upgrades on Cisco UCS components, ensuring seamless integration with VMware.
• Implement and maintain storage solutions within VMware environments, including SAN/NAS and VMware vSAN.
• Integrate storage into VMware clusters, ensuring redundancy, high availability, and performance.
• Provide support for storage provisioning, LUNs, datastores, and VMware storage policies.
• Leverage automation tools such as PowerCLI, Ansible, or Python to streamline VMware and Cisco UCS operations.
• Automate common tasks and configuration changes to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth and timely delivery of IT infrastructure projects.
• Assist in the creation of project timelines, risk assessments, and detailed implementation plans.
• Provide high-level and granular configuration documentation for systems and solutions.
• Provide ongoing support for VMware and Cisco UCS environments, ensuring minimal downtime.
• Troubleshoot hardware, software, and configuration issues within both VMware and Cisco UCS environments.
• Monitor systems for performance and capacity issues, responding to alerts and ensuring optimal system uptime.
Qualifications:
Required:
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience with VMware vSphere and vCenter in enterprise environments, including experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) for managing cloud infrastructure
• Strong experience with Cisco UCS hardware, including servers, fabric interconnects, and UCS Manager.
• Experience working with VMware storage technologies (vSAN, iSCSI, NFS, etc.).
• Proficiency in configuring, optimizing, and managing VMware clusters, virtual machines, and storage within VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
• Familiarity with server provisioning and resource management in VMware environments.
• Strong troubleshooting skills for both VMware and Cisco UCS systems.
• Experience with scripting tools like PowerCLI or Python to automate VMware and UCS tasks, including automation for VCF management.
• Good knowledge of system monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery processes in virtualized environments, including VCF-based solutions.
Preferred:
• VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certification.
• Experience with VMware NSX, VMware vRealize Suite, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), or other VMware enterprise tools.
• Experience with storage systems such as Pure Storage, NetApp, or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with cloud environments or hybrid cloud solutions.
• Knowledge of automation frameworks (Ansible, Terraform) for infrastructure management.
Company:
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