Compute - Project Manager - E

Job Description:
Job Description

This is a Virtualization Server Hosting Engineering position in Enterprise Technology.

Virtualization Hosting service enablement

Capacity Management

• Conduct capacity planning and forecasting for the platforms, including Compute/Virtual Machine (VM), memory, storage, and network resources, to ensure scalability and prevent resource exhaustion

• Analyze resource utilization trends and make recommendations for infrastructure scaling, consolidation, or optimization

• Collaborate with application teams and stakeholders to understand future demand and project capacity needs

• Develop and maintain capacity models and reports to support strategic planning

Automation & Efficiency

• Develop automation solutions (scripts, playbooks) for repetitive VMware/OSV tasks, including configuration changes, VM management (like snapshot removal), auditing, remediation and integration with ticketing systems

• Leverage automation to enable delivering operator updates and changes efficiently at scale

• Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices to improve overall platform stability, performance, and operational efficiency

• Role Based Access Control deployment and auditing

• Namespace and Resource Quota management (CPU, Disk and Storage)

Observability, Monitoring, logging and Troubleshooting

• Implement and maintain comprehensive end to end observability solutions (monitoring, logging, tracing) for the VMware/OSV environment, including integration with tools like Dynatrace and Prometheus/Grafana

• Explore and implement Event Driven Architecture (EDA) for enhanced real time monitoring and response

• Develop capabilities to flag and report abnormalities and identify "blind spots" in observability

• Perform deep dive Root Cause Analysis (RCA), potentially utilizing available tooling, to quickly identify and resolve issues across the global compute environment

• Find the needle in a haystack/unhealthy bit in the compute universe (Globally) for faster time to resolution

• Monitor VM health, resource usage, and performance metrics proactively

• Monitor for unusual activity that might indicate a compromise or misconfiguration

Solution Design & Consulting

• Provide technical consulting and expertise to application teams requiring VMware/OSV solutions

• Design, implement, and validate custom or dedicated OSV clusters and VM solutions for critical applications with unique or complex requirements (e.g., specialized appliances)

Knowledge Management

• Create, maintain, and update comprehensive internal documentation and customer facing content to facilitate self-service and clearly articulate platform capabilities

Support

• Participate in L1 – L3 level support to Operations teams environmental related issues. Monthly after hours and weekend work will be required

Responsibilities

• Responsible for engineering, deployment, operational administration, and protection of Global enterprise solutions to meet the Virtualization Server Hosting requirements for a variety of infrastructure systems, line of business and third-party application needs

• Architect/design and support the installation, and administration of virtualization (VMware and Open

Shift Virtualization (OSV)) suite of products

• Responsible for the entire lifecycle of technologies globally including infrastructure security vulnerability patching, planning, designing, implementation, maintenance, upgrades and decommissioning of hardware and software

• Engineer, test and document procedures, monitoring, logging, disaster recovery process and security policies and guidelines

• Demonstrates knowledge of hardware and software products

• Research industry best practices and trends

• Global large-scale deployments of virtualization technologies

• Support HPE Synergy/Pro

Liant ILO and firmware field testing

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

• Total 10+ years IT experience including 4+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, with at least 3+ years demonstrable experience focused on VMware, Kubernetes and/or Open

Shift

• Understanding of VMware and Kubernetes concepts

• Experience with Linux administration and networking fundamentals

• Proficiency in scripting languages for automation

• Experience with monitoring tools and logging solutions

• Understanding of virtualization concepts and technologies (e.g., KVM, VMware)

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues across multiple layers of the stack

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Dev

Ops methodologies

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Self-starter. Be on a mission to go where the work is. Look for opportunities to evolve services

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