Virtualization Engineer Job Description
Virtualization engineer
provides ongoing Tier 2/3 support of production environments that include Riverbed, F5, Cisco, and Palo Alto products.
Virtualization Engineer Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective virtualization engineer job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included virtualization engineer job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Strong Cisco networking skills preferred
Troubleshoot and work with various vendors to resolve issues with infrastructure components (Windows/Citrix/Cisco/HP)
Contribute to incident reduction initiatives to drive operational overhead to a minimum
Drive to exit our Museum and End of Life infrastructure to help maximize vendor supportability and the stability of the environment
Work with customers and stakeholders to understand and clarify business and system requirements, solving complex business problems together
Design and develop workflows to automate the deployment of applications and infrastructure environments
Influence broader Engineering group in adopting new Cloud technologies and related processes
Collaboratively interface with customers to understand technology strategy, including new applications being authored, and backlog of enhancements to existing applications
Since there’s no time for reinventing the wheel, document
Research and explore new technology patterns and frameworks, implement standalone reference applications or apply to existing problems
Virtualization Engineer Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Virtualization Engineer
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: VCP, ITIL, II, IAT, CCA, CCE, IAM, CCNA, MCTS, NAC
Education for Virtualization Engineer
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the virtualization engineer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Education, Technical, Information Systems, Information Technology, Science, Computer, Computer Engineering, Technology
Skills for Virtualization Engineer
Desired skills for virtualization engineer include:
General system and network troubleshooting tools
Cisco
A10 Networks
Arista
F5
Force10
Infoblox
Palo Alto Networks
Riverbed
Vyatta/Brocade
Desired experience for virtualization engineer includes:
Stealthily plan and lead the deployment of the cloud solution in a production environment
Experienced at sleuthing out technical issue? Learn our systems and come solve puzzles
Work with new and existing vendors, gathering industry intelligence and bringing in expertise from external parties
Design and code automation workflows of moderate complexity and scope, performing unit tests and conducting reviews with other team members to make sure your work is rigorously designed, elegantly coded, and effectively tuned for performance
While you don’t have to scale buildings, implementing scalable systems solutions is required
Pull strings with Puppet and cook something up with Chef
Virtualization Engineer Examples
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Virtualization Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of virtualization engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for virtualization engineer
- Serious bonus points awarded for experience migrating on-site solutions to cloud based offerings, such as Amazon’s AWS
- Initiative! You’ll be expected to find ways to improve the product and to act on those ideas
- Strong general EMC product skills (UIM/VMAX/VNX/AX)
- Standard system administration duties including server install, System/Application install and patch management, Windows and Linux problem determination and resolution, log analysis
- Maintain reliable, secure and high performing systems in a multi-domain, multi-site Windows environment that consists of IBM servers, EMC storage arrays, and VMware vSphere 5.x/6.x
- Maintain, upgrade, and implement improvements to the VMWare virtual and Horizon VDI infrastructure
- Monitor event logs for changes and errors, resolve issues, and maintain detailed documentation within the incident tracking system
- Manage virtual and storage resources
- Perform upgrades to OS and layered software packages
- Strong writing skills that lead to clear, concise, and unambiguous technical and non-technical documentation including requirements, infrastructure design documentation, user guides
Qualifications for virtualization engineer
- Develops projects to improve performance, efficiency, experience, capacity, of environments
- At least 2 yr
- 4+ yrs experience with large scale software implementation (high transaction volume and high-availability concepts)
- 3+ yrs experience in development of automation workflows/routines using VMware products
- Working knowledge of virtualization as it applies to networking
- Basic understanding of networking (TCP/IP, subnetting, switching and routing, port configurations)
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Virtualization Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a virtualization engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for virtualization engineer
- Provides work leadership to others
- Provides expertise with proposed design changes/suggestions to processes and products
- Taking escalations from Virtualization Engineers & Architects w.r.t
- Manage virtual and storage resources, perform upgrades to OS and layered software packages including VDI components, Windows services, or other enterprise apps
- Maintain and administer all aspects of the company’s Citrix infrastructure - Xenapp/Xendesktop (4.5/5.0/6.0/7.6)
- Manage, monitor, and troubleshoot the physical server environment, including firmware and bios updates
- Manage, work, and resolve support issues assigned through the HelpDesk ticketing system
- Help improve and maintain the printing system
- Provide timely response to system outages to mitigate service disruption to clients and the business
- Develop, implement, and maintain streamlined processes while also providing the supporting documentation to accompany the processes
Qualifications for virtualization engineer
- Experience in the C programming language is desirable
- Virtualization background is desirable
- Experience with setup /installation/packaging and serviceability software is desirable
- Familiarity with FreeBSD or LINUX is also desirable
- Working familiarity with storage technologies is desirable
- Unix or Linux shell scripting knowledge is desirable
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Virtualization Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a virtualization engineer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for virtualization engineer
- Provide after hours on-call support for server infrastructure or application failures
- Maintain or author all required documentation, change control, asset / CMDB, capacity information implementation details for services in the integration lab
- Manage, support high-availability, and DR VMware systems
- Takes ownership of issues as necessary, working problems to resolution (following all policies and procedures that dictate minimum standards for ticket handling, such as customer communication status updates, timelines for escalation, management communication status updates)
- Develop, maintain, and review automated test scripts and test cases, both manual and automatic
- Run automated test scripts
- Create CI documentation, , environment diagrams, workflow, and processes
- Provide support to the downstream maintainers
- Design, engineer, and implement virtualization solutions
- Document engineering solutions and SOPs such that services are delivered in an effective and efficient manner
Qualifications for virtualization engineer
- Excellent communications skills - fluent English mandatory (written and verbal)
- A Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science , a Master Degree, or a PhD
- Ability to quickly learn and take direction from senior technical leaders
- Virtualization background on VMWare ESX, XEN, Microsoft Hyper-v, or KVM
- Knowledge of hypervisor API interfaces or hypervisor internals
- Experience with VMware ESX version 4, 4.1, 5 and vSphere desired
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Virtualization Engineer Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a virtualization engineer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for virtualization engineer
- Actively involved in the development of virtualization roadmap and strategy
- Acts as senior level escalation to analyze and resolve problems associated with virtualization and all related infrastructure
- Implement new features in QEMU and KVM
- Review and discuss code written by other engineers
- Fix bugs reported by customers or the Quality Engineering team
- Collaborate with the upstream open source community
- Provide mid-level technical infrastructure support services for issues elevated from the Support Center and other technical services groups
- Plan and implement new technologies and major releases for the most critical enterprise-wide IT infrastructure projects
- Effectively work communicate with IT groups to assess systems risks on those areas and to keep groups apprised of systems issues that may have an impact on those areas, including projected down times and business risks
- Write documentation, including project plans, backup plans, business continuance, installation procedures, and troubleshooting tips
Qualifications for virtualization engineer
- Experience designing and operating enterprise level virtualisation solutions for a global organization
- 3+ years experience supporting the VMware product set vSphere, vCAC, vCM, vCO and vCOPs
- Thorough understanding and work experience with DNS, VMWare, Citrix, name resolution, and network firewall are a must
- Experience with SAN and NAS based storage and backup solutions EMC product experience preferred
- Must be adept at identifying and eliminating performance bottlenecks and making performance-related recommendations (hardware, software, and configuration)
- VCP-DCV, VCAP-DCA, VCP-Cloud VCAP- preferred
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Our company is looking for a virtualization engineer. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for virtualization engineer
- Thoroughly understands general ITIL standards, complying with internal IT policies and procedures
- End User Virtualization highest point of escalation Level 3
- Stay abreast to new End User Virtualization technologies (Citrix, VMware, Microsoft) with training and whitepapers
- Engage with Architecture to ensure Citrix technologies are enterprise scalable
- Document engineering and build process of existing and new implantations
- Engineer and approve Citrix life cycle matrix
- Design and drive Next Generation Data Center solutions, with a focus on all aspects of virtualization
- Engineer and manage deployment of systems and networks
- Responsible for the day-to-day support of server, app, or desktop virtualization
- Disaster recovery monitoring and operations to include vCenter heartbeat, High availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), and vMotion
Qualifications for virtualization engineer
- LI-DC2* *LI-DC2* *LI-DC2* *LI-DC2* *LI-DC2*
- VCenter Orchestrator a plus
- Familiarity with data replication technologies, server migration and disaster recovery strategies preferred
- Advanced knowledge of automation technologies (Scripting, Puppet, Foreman, Chef)
- Advanced knowledge of cloud orchestration technologies (VCAC, UCSD)
- Intermediate knowledge of enterprise monitoring solutions, such as vROps, SCOM