Current Required Experience

• 10+ years' relevant experience with system administration including installation, maintenance, support or an equivalent combination.
• May require related specific experience with any of the following: operating systems, servers, hardware, network administration, authentication systems, client server applications, designing/developing system enhancements and software applications, programming experience with modern languages and, application software, protocols, tools and utilities.

Current Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proficiency with multi-vendor hardware/software management, security, network/Internet protocols.
• May require any of the following: problem identification/resolution, performance management/tuning, and design configuration/planning. Knowledge of related large-scale computing systems and/or product installs and maintenance.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and management of complex, large-scale computing systems projects.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences. Excellent organizational and written and verbal communication skills.

Required Skills:

• Implementing projects requiring VMware experience, including vSphere and administration of VMware clusters
• Experience with enterprise-level virtualization, designing, implementing and maintaining VMware ESXi servers and clusters
• Strong knowledge of storage solutions and how to integrate them on the cluster
• Knowledge of networking integration into VMware ESXi and hands-on troubleshooting common problems
• Experience with capacity planning, monitoring, and maintenance of VMware clusters with VMware infrastructure/vSphere
• VMware ESXi infrastructure build, administration and support experience
• Experience in installing, upgrading VMware systems and servers, and maintaining the security and stability of the VMware environment
• Patch management: operating system, security patches, and/or handling configurational issues
• Good hands-on technical and troubleshooting experience including provisioning, configuration, modification, and decommissioning
• Experience in handling virtual machine server and appliance instances

Current Preferred Experience

• 10+ years of experience with architecture, implementing and administering VMWare based solutions, experience managing storage devices such as SAN, troubleshooting and solving difficult system problems (hardware, software, and basic networking).
• Ability to balance multiple, concurrent projects, and regularly communicate issues and experience working in an autonomous, fast-paced environment with minimal guidance.
• Experience supervising incident management using problem management tools (ServiceLink).
• 10+ years relevant experience with complex production problem resolution and complex production scheduling.
• Advanced knowledge of virtual systems, network, security integration services, and scripting languages.