Position: Senior Systems Engineer – VMware & Storage
Location: North Chicago, IL 60085
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Contract
Work Type: Hybrid(Tue-Thur - Onsite)
Pay Rate: $73.85-73.85/Hourly/W2
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is mission is to discover and deliver innovation medicines and solutions that address complex health issues and enhance people’s lives.
Job Description:
- Provides technical design, implementation and life cycle support of Vmware and Isilon (NAS) storage. Operate as the subject matter expert for the Vmware platform.
- Partner with various engineering, tools and BTS Teams to streamline and improve current Windows/Vmware processes to support BTS Strategic Operation Initiatives.
- Collaborating with security vendors on new releases, and support issues. Drives resolution and creates implementation plan for incident tickets.
- Support of security vulnerabilities for the Vmware platforms.
- Assist with the lifecycle management for Vmware and planning grades for the enterprise data center environments including testing new releases.
- A solid understanding of networking and core Internet protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, and distributed networks)
- Strong experience with data center expansions for compute and storage utilizing Dell/EMC, VxRail and VxRack Hyper converged solutions
- Assist engineering teams to implement storage solutions including PowerScale and NetApp including implementing best practice, governance and security controls.
- Provide support to outsourced operations team to ensure Incident and Problem Management is a mechanism that feeds continuous improvement for Vmware and NAS storage
- Adhere to corporate standards regarding applicable corporate and divisional policies
- Experience level 5-7 years
TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.