Data Center Engineer

Come join our growing team! We are hiring a Data Center Engineer to assist in designing, installing, maintaining, and troubleshooting the physical and virtual infrastructure of data centers. The Data Center Engineer will work with servers, storage, network, security, and cloud technologies to ensure optimal performance, availability and scalability of data center resources. The successful hire will also collaborate with other team members, vendors, and clients to provide technical support and guidance on data center projects and issues.

Some responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Diagnose and Troubleshoot Virtualization, Storage arrays, and networking (L2)
• Experience with storage connectivity via zoning and iSCSI
• Configure servers (Win/Linux) and troubleshooting Windows and Linux servers
• Install and configure Hyper Converged Products like VxRail, Cisco HX and Nutanix
• Interface directly with clients to implement solutions
• Create supporting documentation, help manuals and how-to guides
• Building and maintaining ESXi hosts, maintaining Network Infrastructure
• Providing technical support to our clients
• Willingness to travel to client sites, data center locations, our office or other sites as needed
• All other duties as assigned

Skills:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate technical concepts in a simple and straightforward manner
• Expertise with block level and file level storage protocols, SAN switching, and enterprise storage arrays and replication technologies
• Expertise with VMware vSphere, PowerCLI, and/or vSphere SDKs
• Expertise with VMware Horizon
• Expertise in VDI Management
• Hands on experience with AWS and Azure services and configurations
• Experience with VMware ESX, Unix Servers and MS Hyper-V
• Experience with Microsoft Windows Servers, Unix Servers & Desktops and all common server and workstation applications
• Experience deploying VMware integration and extension services components.
• Experience with storage solutions experience (Dell EMC, Pure, NetApp, VMware, Nutanix)
• Experience with Hyper Converged Products like VxRail, Cisco HX and Nutanix
• Ability to independently troubleshoot technical problems by analyzing the problem and applying a methodology to resolve the problem.
• Knowledge and skills in datacenter technologies, such as servers, storage, network, security, and cloud
• Proficient in datacenter installation, configuration, management, and troubleshooting
• Familiar with datacenter standards, regulations, and best practices
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Experience and Education:

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in a datacenter and cloud environment
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or related field
• Certificates in data center technologies such as Cisco, VMware, Microsoft, or AWS preferred
• Experience working with diverse networking environments such as Dell and HP
• Prior experience working in Professional Services for an IT Consulting company