Senior Software Engineer

Education Required Engineering Graduate in computer Science /IT or Post graduate in computer science/application. 

Preferred:Master's Degree

• Additional qualification/certification Preferred 
• • VMware DCV certification 
• • Red Hat OSV certification 
• • Red Hat CSA certification 
• • CKA – Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Primary Skills Required:

Ansible, Python, Linux, VMware ESX Servers, Red Hat, Storage Capacity Management, GitHub, Yaml, Communications, Windows Servers, API, Kubernetes, Docker, MSSQL, IBM Websphere Application Server, OSV, CI/CD, Storage Management, git, Network Protocols & Standards, Tekton, Microsoft Windows &  OpenShift. 

Experience Required: Technical Qualifications:

• Overall 10+ years in IT development/operations/support/migrations
• 5+ years of experience with OpenShift Virtualization/automation - Knowledge about containers/pods - Deep insight about K8s - Virtual Machine management - Knowledge about PVCs and Operators
• 3+ Years of experience with Tekton Pipelines for Automation
• 5+ years of experience with Git repo mgmt. and usage.
• 3+ years of experience with Argo CD knowledge
• 3+ years of creating/managing Ansible playbooks
• 3+ years of PowerShell, Ansible & Yaml scripting
• 3+ years of managing Dockers
• 3+ Years of experience with VMWare vSphere ESXi, vCenter, vROPS
• 3+Years of experience working with VMware & Red Hat Server Infrastructure server hardware and related network components.
• 3+ Years of experience working in a Global/Large VMware environment.
• Infrastructure Experience with servers, network, storage, database, and backups.
• Experience in SQL Server, WebSphere, Windows OS, Linux OS.
• Familiar with PowerCLI and API calls via code.

Additional Experience Preferred:Experience Required 

- Basic Qualifications:

• Virtual server computing infrastructure knowledge.
• Scripting experience with PowerShell, Ansible & Yaml
• Enterprise Datacenter server hosting server experience or Hosting Infrastructure.
• Windows server or Linux operating system.
• Ability to work with a variety of cross functional teams to support deployment to remote locations.
• Proven track record of organizing and leading projects involving VMware/Red Hat or related infrastructure technologies for a large enterprise.
• Exceptional technical writing skills (run books, DR plans, platform architecture, etc.)
• Familiar with Ford Agile delivery concepts.
• Strong communication skills.
• Willingness to learn new technologies
• Good team player working with Global team

Primary Skills Required Responsibilities:

• Architect/design and support the installation, and administration of virtualization VMware & Red Hat OSV suite of products.
• Responsible for the entire lifecycle of the technologies globally including infrastructure security vulnerability patching, planning, designing, implementation, maintenance, upgrades and decommissioning of hardware and software.
• Engineer, test and document procedures, monitoring, logging, disaster recovery process and security policies and guidelines
• Demonstrates knowledge of a broad range of hardware and software products.
• Research industry best practices and trends. • Provide operational support of all global infrastructure hosting solution on VMware & Red Hat OSV server platforms.
• Provide consulting services to OS support teams and application teams as required for performance review and production outage root cause analysis.
• Global deployment of VMware & Red Hat infrastructure platform server components - ESXi, vCenter, vRops, Red Hat OSV, Red Hat migrations, Red Hat Operators
• Global deployment of security vulnerability patches on VMware infrastructure platform server components (ESXi, vCenter, vRops)
• Lead or participate in server engineering projects (e.g. automation, shared virtualization farms, capacity on demand, technology refresh, etc.)
• Lead or participate in server operations projects (e.g. ESX host upgrades, vCenter upgrades, affinity rule rollout, VM resource adds, VM restores, etc.)
• ProvideL1 – L3 level support to Operations teams for virtual machine related issues.
• Participate L1-L2 off-hour on-call rotation once ~every 2 months.
• Support VMware server platform field testing. • Support HPE Synergy/ProLiant iLO and firmware field testing.
• Develop and maintain Operational Documentation.
• Develop automation for day-2 operations in support of server compute infrastructure.