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Virtualization Engineer

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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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