Senior Systems Engineer

Prosum; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Prosum is seeking a skilled individual to implement and architect server and systems infrastructure within a large-scale environment. The role involves translating design concepts into functional systems while managing communication across engineering teams.

Ideal candidates should have over 10 years of experience in virtualization technologies and a strong background in VMware, cloud computing, and Linux administration. This position is critical for ensuring seamless project completion and infrastructure integration.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience in virtualization.
• VMWare engineer with vRealize Operations experience.
• Experience in the networking industry for at least 10 years.

Responsibilities

• Architect server/systems infrastructure for a large 24x7 environment.
• Translate design concepts into working diagrams and manage communication.
• Maintain sync of development, integration, testing, and production environments.

Skills

Expertise in virtualization technologies

Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, OpenStack, VMware)

Experience with VMware vRealize Operations Manager

Linux administration

Networking and storage configurations

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Redhat Enterprise Linux

Dell Servers

VMWare

Job description

Job Overview

Implement and architect server/systems infrastructure in a large 24x7 environment.

Implement from design diagrams a highly available and scalable system infrastructure.

Translate a design concept into a working diagram, highlighting individual hardware/software components required to integrate the project into existing infrastructure.

Manage work completion to engineering milestones by ensuring that development, integration, test, and production environments are all in sync; implement revision change control.

Support and maintain communication and project workflow between development group of architecture and engineering teams and the operations/implementation group.

Technical Skills

Experience with and understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, OpenStack, and VMware.

Advanced experience with the following VMware concepts: VMware vRealize Operations Manager, vDistributed Switches, and vMotion/Storage vMotion.

Create, maintain, and deploy templates.

Create clones and customization profiles.

High Availability (HA) and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).

Host profiles.

Install and configure Dell blades chassis and servers (rack mounted and blades).

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of experience in virtualization technologies.
• VMWare engineer with vRealize Operations (VROPS) experience.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in networking industry.
• Bachelor of Science (or higher) in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Experience with Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.x - 6.5, Redhat Deployments using Kickstart installations, and Redhat Clustering configuration and deployments.
• Experience with Oracle Linux 5.6 - 6.4 and Oracle RAC cluster technology.
• Cloud Computing: AWS, VMWare, and OpenStack.
• Network bonding and VLAN Trunking.
• Dell and HP rack and blade systems.
• Experience with the deployment and management of storage hardware – 3PAR, EMC, Isilon IQ, iDRAC configuration and management, and NetApp NAS appliances.
• SAN hardware and technologies – EMC/Brocade, SAN Directors, Fibre-Attached storage, iSCSI, RAID levels, and best practices.
• Linux administration to include networking, storage, and multipathing configurations.
• Familiarity with NTP, DNS, NFS, Load Balancing, Fiber Channel zoning concepts, Brocade administration, NPIV and Access Gateway Mode, and HTTP servers and understanding of content delivery/CDN integration.
• Brocade Load Balancers, clustering software, auto-failover, and Ethernet bonding.