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Saicon

Virtualization Engineer

Saicon, Pleasanton, California, United States, 94566

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Virtualization Engineer – Hiring On W2 Location:

Pleasanton, CA – Remote

Employment type:

Contract (12+ months)

Must Haves

Software and Hardware experience in Nutanix.

Experience in Windows system administration.

Migrate workloads to Microsoft 365.

Migrate remaining servers and applications from the VMware environment to Microsoft Azure.

Deploy Nutanix virtual environments to migrate Data Center systems not included in other projects.

Replace remote office VMware virtual environments with Nutanix systems.

Review and develop architecture plans for Nutanix and Azure with vendor input.

Review and develop plans for migration activities to Nutanix and Azure in conjunction with State Fund SMEs and vendor architects.

Coordinate with other IT teams to research and resolve complex issues.

Provide technical guidance and resources to other IT teams as needed.

Escalate critical issues that impact pre-production and production systems when necessary.

Perform post-event analysis to determine root cause and possible preventive measures.

Coordinate administrative, maintenance, and support activities of infrastructure to support IT and business initiatives.

Lead, plan, develop, implement, and participate in project design, system administration, maintenance, and support essential to the mission.

Develop automation using tools such as Ansible and Python to streamline routine tasks.

Ensure designs meet best practice security guidelines.

Optimize systems for performance based on their use case.

Optimize State Fund spending in Azure to prevent overspend.

Assist State Fund management in proactively managing vendor resources.

Lead design discussions, research, identify, and provide recommendations on solutions and best practices to improve or resolve mission-critical systems and issues.

Act as a lead role in projects assigned by management.

Participate in problem management and root cause analysis and maintain 24x7 availability and monitoring of business system servers.

Provide after-hours maintenance and support, whenever required.

Participate in the on-call rotation with other Server Operations staff.

Seniority Level Mid‑Senior level

Job Function Information Technology and Customer Service

Industries Insurance and Employee Benefit Funds

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