Short Description:
The contractor selected will be responsible for The Bureau of Workers’ Compensation’s (BWC) Infrastructure support, assisting on the Core project, and serve as backup to staff as additional resource on special projects where applicable.
Complete Description:
Interviews scheduled for March 5 and 6
The contractor selected should posses Enterprise Senior Data Center experience involving systems/network administration in large server farms, the knowledge to set up of new physical/virtual environments, having the ability to perform hardware/software upgrades, knowledge to implement security guidelines, and ability to provide performance tuning to systems. The person will work with the Build/Systems team to provide this functionality and infrastructure system support.
Technical Certifications:
• VMware Certified Professional 5- Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV)
• VMware Certified Professional 5- Desktop (VCP5-DT)
• Microsoft Certified Professional
Hardware experience:
• IBM SVC
• Brocade Switches
• Hitachi HUS 150 disk subsystems
• HP MSA 1000 storage arrays
Other experience:
• Experience in managing and leading IT projects
• General Knowledge of networking and security. This includes VLANs, switching, and firewalls.
• Knowledge in cyber security and security practices
• Network experiences with designing, configuring, and operating network switches and routers
VMware Experience:
• Minimum 5 years working experience with multi-tiered applications running on VMware vSphere
• Senior Architectural Design and implementation experience
• Knowledge and ability to manage virtual desktops
• Senior Admin experience and expertise in managing multiple Datacenters, Clusters, Hosts
• Expertise in VMware Windows, Unix, Solaris, and Linux operating systems
• Managing ESXi 4.x, 5.x w/ vCenter and Update Manager, Remote CLI, PowerCLI
• Vmware networking with Virtual Distributed Switches (including Nexus 1000v)
• VMware storage configurations(NFS, fiber channel, iSCSCi)
• DR solutions and business continuity solutions
• Vmware Security (following Vmware hardening guides)
• Monitoring and Performance troubleshooting
• Skilled in documenting systems and procedures.
• Ability to provide a direction for Infrastructure upgrades and future enhancements
These best practices include:
• Knowledge of security awareness and best practices utilizing security baselines
• Major version administration and upgrades in an environment of 100+ VMs.
• NIC teaming and failover.
• Ability to configure HA and DRS.
• VMware update manager.
• Configuration and management of VMware networking including the VMware VSS or VDS.
• VMware template management.
• Ability to install, configure, and manage vCenter
• Ability to create and configure vSwitches, VDS, Port Groups, Network Policies within virtual infrastructure
Vmware (vShield) - Optional
• Minimum 3 years experience with vShield installation, design, and configuration experience
• vCloud Director- installation, design, and configuration experience
• VC Operations- installation, design, and configuration experience
VMware (vCloud Automation Center) - Optional
• Minimum 2-3 years experience installation, design, configuration
• Orchestrator/windows automation experience designing workflows to automate tasks
• vCloud Automation Center experience with vCloud Automation Center architecture and use case in multivendor cloud environments
• Knowledge on how to configure and manage provisioning groups and blueprints, reclaim resources, and operate within Self-service portal
Microsoft Experience:
• Minimum 5 years experience designing and administering Windows Server environments (2003, 2008, 2008R2, 2012)
• Active Directory experience
• SCCM/SCOM
• Group Policy management
• DNS administration and configuration, and DHCP administration and configuration.
• Familiar with IIS configuration and troubleshooting
• Familiar with database technologies (Oracle, SQL)
Typical Daily Activities:
Contractor will operate in a SA4 role performing the following duties: The primary focus of this role is providing advanced senior windows/VMware engineer experience and bring insight and direction where applicable. Other duties include…
• Provide excellent customer service and posses great communication skills
• Provide “As Built” documentation to BWC system team
• Deliver Knowledge Transfer sessions to BWC system team
• Research and recommend where possible automated approaches for implementing specific given tasks
• Have the ability to script or program in JavaScript, Power shell, Perl, Java, Python, or similar languages
• Monitoring Infrastructure, VMware that requires in-depth knowledge of tools including vCenter Server, vCenter Operations, vFoglight, Microsoft SCOM
• Linux and Windows OS that requires in-depth knowledge of MS perfmon, eventlogs and usage for log searching
• Senior hardware experience that involves the knowledge and understanding of using Insight Manager to monitor health of physical devices and servers
• Knowledge of system installation and issues associated with installation- VMware, Windows, and Linux
• Keep all system up to date by assisting server team with patching, updating hardware, vmware hosts, windows/linux guests utilizing VMware Update Manager, MS SCCM, and Linux related tools
• Investigate and troubleshoot system alarms and alerts- that requires in-depth knowledge of vmware ESXi, MS Server 2008/2012, Linux Redhat Operating Systems and troubleshooting tools and techniques, including vCenter, ESXtop, and PowerCLi
• Providing advanced tier 3 troubleshooting support in which the person should possess technical knowledge of both the host operating system and guests (both Windows and Linux), also the person should have very good understanding of networking concepts and technologies
• Must be able to analyze and redirect problems to correct individuals teams
• Attending meetings to work with customers to collect and review requirements and recommend acceptable solutions, including hardware specifications, network connectivity, storage types and connectivity, resource usage, virtualization options (HA, DRS, FT, etc.)
• Work with customers and other groups to propose business continuance options for various systems
• Work with team to plan upgrades and changes to infrastructure and servers
• Provide operations level system admins with instruction and best practices concerning both the VMware infrastructure and the guest OS’s (Windows and Linux)
• Adhere to BWC security guidelines and best practices with regards to security at the host, Guest and Physical Levels and must adhere to these guidelines
• Have “strong” technical skills, covering data center, network, virtualization, storage operations, security, and application relative to data migrations
• Design, and implementation of customized technical Operations and Engineering solutions for customers in the Data Centers
• Have the ability to develop complete virtualization solutions and recommendations
• Provide virtualization focused demonstrations in lab environment, evaluations and proof of concept support when applicable
• Provide senior troubleshooting expertise for Build I&O operations for server performance and other issues
• Provide competitive analysis to internal customers and resources on all server operations and engineering technologies and other compelling strategies.
• Help develop complete operations and engineering solutions taking into account infrastructure, data protection, high availability, resource management, automation, disaster recovery, and application requirements.
• Hands-on experience in data center virtualization and storage environments
Skills:
Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience
• Experience with multi-tiered applications running on VMware vSphere
Required
6
Years
• Senior Architectural Design and implementation experience
Required
6
Years
• Knowledge and ability to manage virtual desktops
Required
6
Years
• Senior Admin experience and expertise in managing multiple Datacenters, Clusters, Hosts
Required
6
Years
• Expertise in VMware Windows, Unix, Solaris, and Linux operating systems
Required
6
Years
• Managing ESXi 4.x, 5.x w/ vCenter and Update Manager, Remote CLI, PowerCLI
Required
6
Years
• Vmware networking with Virtual Distributed Switches (including Nexus 1000v)
Required
6
Years
• VMware storage configurations(NFS, fiber channel, iSCSCi)
Required
6
Years
• DR solutions and business continuity solutions
Required
6
Years
• Vmware Security (following Vmware hardening guides)
Required
6
Years
• Monitoring and Performance troubleshooting
Required
6
Years
• Skilled in documenting systems and procedures
Required
6
Years
• Ability to provide a direction for Infrastructure upgrades and future enhancements
Required
6
Years
• VMware Certified Professional 5- Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV)
Required
• VMware Certified Professional 5- Desktop (VCP5-DT)
Required
• Microsoft Certified Professional
Required
• SAN hardware experience
Required
6
Years
Experience with vShield installation and configuration experience
Desired
3
Years
• VC Operations- installation and configuration experience
Desired
3
Years
• Orchestrator/windows automation experience designing workflows to automate tasks
Desired
3
Years
Administering Windows Server environments (2003, 2008, 2008R2, 2012)
Required
6
Years
• Active Directory experience
Required
6
Years
• SCCM/SCOM
Required
6
Years
• Group Policy management
Required
6
Years
• DNS administration and configuration, and DHCP administration and configuration
Required
6
Years
Experience in Database Mgmt (ORACLE/SQL)
Required
6
Years