Desired Skills and Experience
- Streamline the server and storage provisioning process through automation and orchestration at both on-prem (colocation) and cloud (AWS & Azure) environments
- Automate maintenance and routine tasks through the use of scripting
- Utilize PowerShell to efficiently accomplish projects and ensure consistency
- Integrate systems and connect information
- B.S. in Computer Science or a Related Field.
- Demonstrated expertise in PowerShell is required
- 5+ years of experience in a colocation data center or cloud environment
- Experience automating IT administration and server provisioning through tools such as PowerShell, PowerCLI, Python, Chef, Puppet, Microsoft Systems Center, UCS Director
- Experience with JavaScript and JQuery preferred
- Experience automating and orchestrating common administration tasks using PowerShell or other scripting languages in conjunction with COTS based systems such as Systems Center Orchestrator, ServiceNow, UCS Director, EMC ViPR
- Experience in automating backup operations and data protection strategies through S3, Glacier, DataDomain, EMC Data Protection Suite, Symantec Backup Exec, VRanger, Veeam, Idera and other COTS products.
- Experience in large-scale virtualization environments using technologies such as VMware VCAC with VSphere, Microsoft Azure with Hyper-V, OpenStack a plus
- Layer 2 switching understanding as it pertains to interconnecting SAN, VMware and blades
- Strong event correlation and root cause analysis skills. You must be able to look at numerous events and data points and formulate an accurate root cause analysis
- Experience hardening, securing, and automating the deployment of Windows and Linux operating systems
- Experience in tuning and extending automation on top of monitoring applications such as SCOM, Nagios, AppDynamics, Keynote, Cloudwatch, and PagerDuty.
- Understanding of AWS VPC, ELB, AMI, EC2, EBS, S3, IAM, CloudFormation, DataPipe, and other PaaS tools within AWS, Azure and other cloud technologies
- Comprehensive medical, dental, prescription and vision benefits with a choice of two plans
- Company-paid life insurance for one time’s your annual base salary to a maximum of $300,000 per year
- Company-paid long-term and short-term disability benefits
- 12 days accrued paid vacation 1st year; 5 days sick leave per year, and 2 personal days
- 401(k) plans