System Engineer

Insight Global; Hershey (PA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Penn State Health is seeking a systems engineer to maintain and modify the VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x environment across a multi-site enterprise. The role involves independent work through all phases of operating environment systems, testing, debugging, and documenting deployments.

You will evaluate new infrastructure products, lead moderate-impact projects, and provide on-call support while ensuring cyber security policies are followed and knowledge is shared with the team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 4+ years related experience or 8 years total experience.
• Adheres to Penn State Health core values.

Responsibilities

• Assist or perform installation, implementation and maintenance of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x and related management modules in a complex enterprise multi-site environment.
• Maintain VMware server systems; participate in teams to evaluate, test and install enterprise systems programs.
• Provide technical assistance to designers and implementers of enterprise server hardware/software systems.
• Assist server operations and support personnel as well as vendor specialists in resolving VMware Cloud Foundation related issues.
• Monitor performance of enterprise server systems; isolate and improve efficiency via software changes or hardware reconfiguration.
• Evaluate and make recommendations to enterprise server hardware/software systems.

Skills

VMware Cloud Foundation

Dell Enterprise Server

Cyber security

On-call support

Server virtualization

Education

Bachelor's degree + 4 years related experience

Tools

VMware

Dell EMC

Job description

Responsible for maintaining and modifying the Broadcom/VMware operating/application environment using engineering releases and utilities from the manufacturer. Test, debug, implement, and document VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x platform & applications dealing with the overall PSH multi-site architecture. Work independently on nearly all phases of operating environment systems. Evaluate new and existing infrastructure products. Assist other systems programmers and analysts to effectively utilize the system's technical software. Lead projects that have a moderate impact on the overall enterprise..

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist or perform installation, implementation and maintenance of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x and all the related management modules in a complex enterprise level multi-site server environment.
• Maintain VMware server systems programs. Participate in teams to evaluate, test, and install enterprise systems programs.
• Provide technical assistance to persons designing and implementing enterprise server hardware/software systems such as operating/database management/data communications systems.
• Assist server operations, and support personnel as well as vendor hardware/software specialists in isolating and resolving problems related to the VMware Cloud Foundation environment.
• Monitor the performance of assigned enterprise server systems. Isolate, correct and improve operational efficiency through changes to the software packages or reconfiguration of hardware.
• Evaluate and make recommendations to enterprise server hardware and/or software systems.
• Sustain a high level of technical skill by attending and completing various seminars and training courses and reading appropriate literature. Communicate this knowledge to others as required.
• Maintain a consistent, high quality, customer-focused orientation when conducting business and providing services or products to clients, the general public and other external customers.
• Interact with IRT management and submits status reports, upgrade recommendations, problems, and questions.
• Participate in on-call schedule to provide non-business hours support of systems. Perform other duties as assigned.
• Responsible and accountable to comply with cyber security policies, standards, and processes in accordance with the Enterprise Cyber Security Program Plan.
• Formally document, design, manage, and/or operate in accordance with cyber security requirements.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Either: (a) Bachelor's degree plus four additional years of related experience or (b) eight years total of related experience.
• Adheres to and exhibits our organizational core values as outlined by Penn State Health.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Extensive knowledge and experience in the following stacks: VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x and all related software/modules.
• Extensive knowledge in the underlying technology within this solution.
• Experience with Dell Enterprise Server and HCI infrastructure.