About this position
CBTS serves enterprise and midmarket clients in all industries across the United States and Canada. CBTS combines deep technical expertise with a full suite of flexible technology solutions--including Application Modernization, Managed Hybrid Cloud, Cybersecurity, Unified Communications, and Infrastructure solutions. From developing and deploying modern applications and the secure, scalable platforms on which they run, to managing, monitoring, and optimizing their operations, CBTS delivers comprehensive technology solutions for its clients' transformative business initiatives. For more information, please visit www.cbts.com.
OnX is a leading technology solution provider that serves businesses, healthcare organizations, and government agencies across Canada. OnX combines deep technical expertise with a full suite of flexible technology solutions—including Generative AI, Application Modernization, Managed Hybrid Cloud, Cybersecurity, Unified Communications, and Infrastructure solutions. From developing and deploying modern applications and the secure, scalable platforms on which they run, to managing, monitoring, and optimizing their operations, OnX delivers comprehensive technology solutions for its clients’ transformative business initiatives. For more information, please visit www.onx.com.
Job Purpose:
A Virtualization Engineer is a versatile team-player involved in an enterprise implementation of multiple information technology systems. The core group specific deliverables are operations of virtualization environment (hardware and hypervisor). Responsibility for on-call /escalated support for operations of virtualized environments, included but not limited to: Server side virtualization, host based post installation scripting and troubleshooting in Ansible and PowerShell/PowerCLI. Responsibility for performance and capacity analysis for physical assets that carry virtualized infrastructure.
Essential Functions
o CBTS Virtualization, Virtual Datacenter, and infrastructure orchestration - 40%
o The subject should be a subject matter expert with and will have responsibility or participation in installation, and provisioning, hypervisor infrastructure to guest side virtualization; virtualization technologies may involve hypervisor-based technologies such as VMware.
o Orchestration technologies include OpenStack and vCloud Director
· Virtualization, storage management and migration - 10%
o The subject should be comfortable with migration of storage for guest side virtualized environments, as well as infrastructure; subject will be responsible for participating in planning and execution of storage pool optimization, live migrations with little impact to availability, and work during maintenance windows; clear understanding of NFS, FCP, ISCSI, shared SCSI locking essential; clear understanding of file systems such as XFS, EXT3, EXT4, HPFS, NTFS
· Virtualization, Virtual Data Center System Integration - 30%
o The subject should be experienced with virtualization system integration and trouble-shooting, including root cause analysis documentation
· Other and documentation - 10%
o Procedural documentation, customer documentation, process and procedural review
· On-Call support - 10%
o On-Call support for the above
Education
· Four years of College resulting in a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
· VMware VCP certification or equivalent required
· VMware VCAP certification preferred
· ITIL V3 foundations certification preferred Experience/Background
Experience
o 5+ years of experience
o PowerShell scripting, Linux engineer, Datacenter virtualization
o Basic project management Special Knowledge/Skills
o Vmware vSphere operations and installation procedures
Other
· PowerShell/PowerCLI
· Ansible
· Shell scripting, and automation of basic procedures
· Demonstrated skills in preventive maintenance, performance tuning, assist with capacity planning, all within best practice standards.
· Demonstrated skills in project management.
· Strong advocate of defining/conforming to standards for support processes and procedures
· Demonstrated skills in oral, written and interpersonal communication
· Strong team/customer focus
· Strong problem diagnostics skills
· Ability to work and act independently and as part of a team
· High level of energy and enthusiasm with the ability to thrive in a rapidly changing environment
· Ability to manage multiple simultaneous tasks, client relationships and expectations