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Senior Virtualization Engineer

RTD · Denver, CO · 1 wk ago
Engineering$100k–$142k/yrFull-time

At Regional Transportation District (RTD), we make lives better through connections. When you join RTD, you will be among dedicated employees exhibiting RTD's values of passion, respect, diversity, trustworthiness, collaboration, and ownership. RTD is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace, encouraging employees to honor diversity in thought, people, and experience.

About the role

This position is responsible for designing, managing, and maintaining virtualization systems, including security, storage, networking, monitoring, and troubleshooting all virtual systems.

Responsibilities

  • Designs and implements VMware-based and other virtualization platform environments, ensuring industry best practices are followed.
  • Acts as the subject matter expert in all deployed virtual environments and serves as the escalation point for support issues in the enterprise environment.
  • Defines and continuously improves processes and procedures to support a fully managed virtual environment, automating processes whenever possible.
  • Ensures full use and deployment of all beneficial technologies in the virtualization stack, including hyper-converged systems, software-defined networking, storage integrations, cloud solutions, and management options.
  • Performs all other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent.
  • A minimum of five (5) years of experience in the design and operational support of VMware vSphere environments using VMware Aria Suite (formerly vRealize) or VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), including hands-on administration of host servers, storage (SAN/vSAN), and network security/firewalls (NSX).
  • A minimum of five (5) years of experience implementing and maintaining Linux and Microsoft server operating systems.
  • A minimum of three (3) years of experience providing virtualization platform administration and related tools such as NSX, Aria, vRA, vSAN, and vSphere.
  • A minimum of two (2) years of experience providing advanced scripting.

Qualifications

Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a similar discipline.

Skills

  • Proficiency in TCP/IP networking and protocols (TCP, UDP, ICMP, SMTP, SNMP, LDAP, DBS, and NTP).
  • Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite.
  • Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing and transfer knowledge as a mentor and technical expert.
  • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to work well under pressure.
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality.
  • Ability to quickly adapt to new products, technologies, and procedural changes.
  • Ability to support critical systems after hours, nights, and weekends as needed.
  • Ability to conceptualize a wide range of enterprise administrative issues.
  • Strong time management and organizational skills, with attention to detail.

An equivalent combination of education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities may also be considered.

Career Map

Based on job performance, experience, education, and position availability, the next step on the career map for this position may be: Supervisor, System Administration.

Pay

Pay Range: $100,284.00 - $141,650.25 Annual

Benefits

RTD offers a comprehensive benefits package. For more details, visit RTD Employee Benefits. Represented employees should refer to the Labor Agreement included in the link for details.

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