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Job Description / Accountabilities:

• This is a senior hybrid infrastructure support role responsible for supporting Cisco UCS infrastructure and VMware virtualization environments. 

• Ensure resulting solutions meet the needs of our business clients and stakeholders while adhering to the bank’s technology and quality standards. 

• Maintain an understanding of business and technology directions as well as technology developments and industry trends.  

• Oversee the design, development and implementation of solutions in partnership with application leads and architects.  

• Act as a point of escalation for unresolved VMware virtualization and hardware technical issues, and work with vendors, consultants and partners in other TS areas to develop solutions. 

• Create and maintain virtual infrastructure documentation related to project assignments. 

• Ensure timely and accurate communication and resolution / escalation of issues. 

• Monitor service delivery against commitments, prioritizing work activities. 

• Follow documented operational procedures and processes with minimal guidance from the team.  

• Analyze operational processes and identify opportunities for continuous improvement. 

• Maintain the virtual infrastructure and ensure security and patch compliance requirements are met. 

• Monitor supported environments using enterprise monitoring and management tools such as VMware Aria Operations, Dynatrace, and Intersight to ensure platform performance and stability. 

Specific Educational Requirements / Accreditations:

• VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certification in vSphere 8.x or VMware Cloud Foundation. 

• Post-secondary degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. 

Other Qualifications / Skills / Experience:  

• Familiar with remediation of software and hardware break/fix on Cisco Data Center products. 

• Strong working knowledge of Cisco Data Center technologies, including Fabric Interconnects, UCS C-Series and B-Series servers, and blade chassis. 

• Expert knowledge of Cisco Data Center networking and storage technologies, including Cisco NX-OS, VLANs, trunking, Fibre Channel, VSANs, and physical connectivity architectures. 

• Expert knowledge of Cisco UCS hardware components, including rack servers, blade servers, Fabric Interconnects, and Fabric Extenders (FEX). 

• Expert in UCS management plane components, specifically UCS Central, UCS Manager and Cisco Intersight management platforms 

• Familiar with and working experience on the design and deployment of service profiles and templates in UCS Central and Intersight 

• 7-10+ years of experience administering enterprise VMware environments, including vCenter, ESXi hosts, VMware management appliances, and virtual machine management. 

• Working experience and knowledge of NSX software defined networking environments 

• Experience supporting private and public cloud environments. 

• Advanced experience administering VMware vSAN environments, including storage policies and storage profile management. 

• Working knowledge of VMware Update Manager and / or VMware LifeCycle Manager for patch management 

• Experience using VMware PowerCLI and PowerShell to automate infrastructure management and operational tasks. 

• Expert troubleshooting skills with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex VMware infrastructure issues and Windows/Linux virtual machine problems. 

• In-depth knowledge of VMware technologies including Distributed Virtual Switches (VDS), DRS, vMotion, vSphere HA, host clusters, datastore clusters, and enterprise networking and failover clustering concepts. 

• Advanced experience with VMware Aria Operations (VROps), Aria Operations for Logs (VRLI), and Aria Operations for Networks (VRNI) for monitoring, performance analysis, and capacity management. 

• Familiar with VMware Aria Automation services and deployments 

• A good understanding of Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and security policies (GPO). 

• Familiar with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and Disaster Recovery planning / management. 

• Strong understanding of Storage Area Network (SAN) technologies, including experience supporting enterprise storage platforms such as Hitachi Vantara. 

• Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing demands and work effectively both independently and within cross-functional teams. 

• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and process-driven. 

• Strong written, verbal, and stakeholder communication skills. 

• Familiar with ITIL best practices (change, incident and problem management) and ServiceNow.  

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