Virtualization Engineer - North East Independent School District

RESUME MUST BE SUBMITTED WITH APPLICATION

Location: Richard A Middleton Education Center

Work Schedule: 12 Months

Work Type: Regular Full-Time

Exempt: Yes

Pay Grade: T6 $71,290- $85,389

**IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING CALCULATION OF PAY: The annual pay for this position is pro-rated based on the effective date of the assignment

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EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field from an accredited university; or four (4) years progressively responsible technical experience

Two years of progressive experience in virtualization solutions

CERTIFICATION:

Current VMWare VCP Certification or obtain within six months

High School Diplomas and college/university degrees must be obtained from an accredited program or university approved by the United States Department of Education and the Texas Education Agency.

PRIMARY PURPOSE SUMMARY:
Responsible for the design, planning, implementation, maintenance, standard, and requirements of a large, distributed VMware environment including activities such as design, maintenance, and troubleshooting of SAN/NAS and server infrastructure. This includes capacity planning, project coordination and communication of key metrics.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Responsible for capacity management practices, provisioning, and configuration of the VMWare environment.
2. Evaluates, tests, deploys, and maintains VMWare and server infrastructure hardware, firmware, software, and upgrades.
3. Manages licensing and monitoring tools.
4. Deploys new VMs for various district projects including research and pilots.
5. Develops management scripts, automation, monitoring solutions and VM templates.
6. Coordinates with and assumes backup role to the Storage Architecture in regard to SANs and Backups.
7. Maintains security within the virtual environment including patches, provisioning, deprovisioning, roles and rights, and design best practices, and documentation.
8. Designs, implements, and manages disaster recovery procedures.
9. Reports on the overall infrastructure and future expansions required including new equipment, licensing, configuration, or vendor changes.
10. Ensures the development and use of an effective preventive maintenance program suitable to meet the operation objective of "99.9% availability".
11. Takes ownership of production issues and works closely with all teams on issue resolutions.
12. Mentors the engineers, system administrators and infrastructure staff in order to assure a line of succession is maintained.
13. Creates and maintains environment documentation.
14. Participates in and may lead aspects of major network installations, standards and upgrades when they directly impact the virtual environment.
15. Interfaces with vendors to ensure appropriate resolution during outages or periods of reduced performance.
16. Maintains at all times a current certification in VMWare.
17. Develops and implements testing strategies and documents results.
18. Primary contact for escalation of enterprise system conflict resolution.
19. Documents, tracks, and updates customer interactions in the Help Desk system.
20. Provides remote installation help via Microsoft Teams or similar technologies.
21. Develops and maintains strong relations with customers.
22. Maintains confidentiality of information.
23. Regularly required to drive District and personal vehicles in the performance of assigned tasks.
21. Reports to work on time every day plus on rotating "on call" service.
24. Performs additional duties and accepts other responsibilities as may be assigned.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
Proficient in Microsoft Windows Server Architecture & SQL Architecture
Solid understanding of storage architectures
Working knowledge of data center management concepts and practices
Maintains current knowledge of relevant hardware and software applications as assigned
Strong organizational, analytical, multi-tasking, and prioritization skills
Valid Texas Driver's License with driving record that meets the requirements of the District

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While all applications will be reviewed, not all applicants will be interviewed.

North East Independent School District does not to discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, color, national origin, sex, marital or veteran status, disability (or relationship or association with an individual with a disability), genetic information or other legally protected status in its programs, services or activities as required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.