Systems Administrator - TEKsystems

Top Skills:

1. Cisco UCS Blade/Rack servers
   1. UCS Manager
   2. Fabric Interconnects
   3. Blade Chassis
   4. B-Series Blade Servers
   5. C-Series Rack Servers
2. Cisco UCS HyperFlex
   1. UCS Manager
   2. HyperFlex Data Platform Software
   3. HX-Series Converged Servers
3. VMware vSphere
   1. vCenter Sever Appliance 8.x
   2. ESXi 7.x and 8.x

Description:

Cisco UCS

- (5%) Hardware support for these systems (how to identify a piece of hardware in the rack, remove it and replace failed components (memory, CPU, power supplies, hard drives, etc.)

- (25%) Firmware support for these systems (how to plan for and upgrade firmware)

- (5%) Monitoring for these systems (We use Cisco Intersight and Cisco UCS Manager)

- (25%) Software support for these systems (how to plan for and upgrade the HyperFlex Connect software/cluster)

- List of the UCS systems that we run:

o Fabric Interconnects (We have two (6332 16UP) and two (6454) FI’s)

o B-Series servers (blade servers including the chassis) M5 generation (we have 22 blades and 4 chassis)

o C-Series servers (rack servers) M5 generation (we have 2 servers (compute only nodes in one of the HX clusters in the next bullet))

o HX-Series servers (HyperFlex) (hyperconverged servers) M5 generation (we have 20 converged hosts in 3 HX clusters)

All Flash Storage Array

- (5%) Some type of all flash storage array support and management. We have a Pure Storage all flash array connected via Cisco MDS SAN.

VMware vSphere

- (15) Software support for these systems (how to plan for and upgrade vSphere (ESXi and vCenter)

- (5%) Troubleshooting (how to identify and resolve issues)

- (15%) Administration (virtual machine deployment and management, HA/DRS, vDS, Datastore management, all normal admin items, etc.)

o vCenter 8.x (we have 2 vCenter server appliances, one dedicated to B-series and one dedicated to C and HX-series)

o ESXi 7.x and 8.x (we have 44 ESXi hosts at about a 60/40 split of v7 and v8)

Bonus points if they have experience in these areas!

Cisco UCS

- How to decommission an HX cluster and HX converged nodes

- How to decommission a B-series node/chassis

Cisco MDS

Beyond Trust Password Safe and Secrets Safe

Atlassian Jira and/or Confluence

Fresh Service or other modern ITSM

Windows Server 2016 - 2022

Benefits:

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms.  If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.