Senior Virtualization Engineer - ComPsych Corporation
Chicago, IL
About the Job
ComPsych® Corporation is the world’s largest provider of mental health services and GuidanceResources® for life. Fueled by a commitment to relentless innovation and a comprehensive approach to care, ComPsych provides services to more than 78,000 organizations and 163 million individuals across 200 countries. Under our GuidanceResources® brand, our personalized and fully integrated programs include behavioral health, absence management, and wellness journeys, which empower employees to lead healthier and more productive lives, while driving organizational excellence. Visit compsych.com to find out why 40% of the Fortune 500 choose ComPsych for their mental health needs.
Job Summary:
As a member of the level 3 engineering team, you will be one of the highest technical escalation points, leading various infrastructure efforts, managing projects across members of various teams, and identifying, designing, and deploying new solutions. This is a highly focused Virtualization Engineering role and requires someone with deep technical knowledge of virtualization technologies.
Primary Responsibilities:- Supports the ongoing maintenance, both proactive and reactive, of our VMware environment.
- Supports our Storage Area Network and Network Attached Storage solutions across multiple sites.
- Performs regular software patching across the VMware solution environment.
- Performs capacity planning and manages the hardware and software lifecycle of the VMware environment.
- Maintains and provisions the VMware Horizon VDI environment.
- Works with the network team to ensure that the NSX solution conforms to best practices.
- Works with the security team to ensure that patches, firewall policies, host settings, and isolation policies meet our business security requirements.
- Collaborates with consumers of the virtualization platform, including Windows, Linux, and app-dev teams to ensure the performance required is delivered.
- Acts as a technical lead, project manager, and level 3 engineer, seeing projects from inception to completion while adhering to BC/DR best practices.
- Identifies automation opportunities and implements accordingly.
- Builds extensive documentation both for new and existing solutions.
- Identifies new solutions and/or designs to improve/streamline the environment and/or which provide direct benefits to the business.
- Other duties as needed.
- Experience and proficiency with VMware vSphere 6.x-7.x.
- Experience and proficiency with vRealize Suite products (vROPS, vRLI, etc).
- Experience and proficiency with VMware NSX-T 3.x.
- Previous Team Lead experience
- Experience and proficiency with HPE Servers and HPE OneView.
- Experience with VMware Horizon 7.x-8.x.
- Experience with VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.x
- Experience with Veeam Backup & Replication 9.x-11.x.
- Proficiency in PowerCLI and/or other scripting languages.
- Strong troubleshooting skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Project Management skills and capable of leading meetings.
- 5 or more years supporting VMware environments.
- Proficiency with core networking concepts and ability to troubleshoot network connectivity issues.
- Flexibility to work after-hours as needed and to be a part of an on-call rotation.
- Must be able to work on-site when needed at our Chicago office and/or regional datacenters.
- Willingness to take on additional duties as needed.
- Powershell experience is a plus.
- VCP (or higher) preferred.
Benefits and Perks
- Full benefits package, including Paid Time Off (PTO), medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with match, robust EAP, wellness program, and much more
- Competitive pay with annual increases
EEO
ComPsych celebrates diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment regardless of race, color, age, genetics, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status and any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. ComPsych Corporation maintains a drug free workplace.
