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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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