Planning architect and VMWare Engineer

Senior VMware Engineer,

Distributed Technology Services (DTS) is responsible for managing the firm's global storage portfolio and global GTI server portfolio of nearly 10,000 server operating system instances across plan, build and operate. The organization drives product management, engineering standards and productivity initiatives for global storage and GTI led server technologies across the firm, as well as managing selected application services, including Web hosting, Middleware, source code management and database management.

This is a senior VMware engineering position within the DSS Product Engineering organization. Duties include a combination of Linux and VMware OS architecture, life cycle development, technical assessments, OS internal engineering, regression process development, high availability and disaster recovery solutions, storage subsystem integration, technology scaling, provisioning, migration and/or transition planning, project planning, standards validation/development, technical documentation, management presentation, training and mentoring, and troubleshooting and problem resolution. Engineering positions will work a normal workweek and may require tier III support responsibilities and schedule.

Qualifications
The candidate should hold a B.S. in Engineering, Computer Science, MIS, or related field, or requisite industry experience. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 7 years of systems engineering experience, including 5 or more years of OS engineering experience in complex large-scale IT environments. The ideal candidate will be a current Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), prefer RHEL4 or newer as well as VMware certification.

Current skill-sets must include:

• Current experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux platforms including RHEL3, RHEL4, and RHEL5.
• Current experience with VMware ESX 2.5.x, 3.x as well as Virtual Center 1.x and 2.x.
• Current experience with storage subsystems including SAN infrastructure, systems clustering, and volume management.
• Current experience in data center class engineered environments Data Center including DMZ's and data migration techniques.
• Current experience and a comprehensive understanding of engineering TCP/IP Networks.
• Current experience with high availability and disaster recovery solutions, technologies, tools and processes. Technologies should include but not be limited to current offerings from Red Hat and Symantec.
• Current experience with system monitoring products such as Tivoli and NetSNMP.
• Demonstrable expertise with functional requirements assurance, complex project activities, and project management.
• Experience working within systems life cycle processes.
• Strong quality assurance and systems testing experience.
• Ability to train and mentor technical staff.
• Experience working within complex technical environments.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work well with others within a team environment essential.

Specific Skills

• Current demonstrated expertise with Red Hat Linux operating systems (RHEL3, RHEL4, and RHEL5) and related products at a senior engineering level (minimum 5 years combined).
• Demonstrated expertise with virtualization technologies such as VMWare and optionally Xen including planning and resource management.
• Demonstrated expertise with high availability and disaster recovery solutions leveraging current versions of Red Hat Cluster Suite including Global File System, and Symantec Veritas HA/VCS technologies.
• Linux Kernel tuning, debugging, and diagnostics, and related toolsets.
• Experience working with vendor processes such as Red Hat Issue Tracker and related support procedures.
• Subject matter expertise with Red Hat OS families and evolution.
• Current hands-on experience with Linux provisioning and update systems such as yum, etc.
• Demonstrated experience with Kickstart including examples of viable Kickstart files.
• Demonstrated experience with RPM building including examples.
• Demonstrated experience with Scripting including Shell, Perl, and/or Python and the ability to cite differences in use.
• Experience with Red Hat patch management, principles and deployment, and related toolsets.
• Experience with the open source development model of project coordination and related tools including Subversion, Bugzilla, etc.
• Experience with authentication and naming service technologies such as LDAP, Keon, Kerberos, etc.