{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"d11670f92124563e6364f210","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/d11670f92124563e6364f210","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/d11670f92124563e6364f210","title":"Linux VMware System Engineer","description":"Overview Linux VMware System Engineer – Client Location: Salt Lake City, UT-Hybrid work\r\nType: 12+ Months Contract\r\nJob Summary The Linux VMware System Engineer – Server Migration role is a vital position within the Unix Engineering team, responsible for supporting the firms large scale server migration project, which involves relocating physical and virtual infrastructure between datacenter locations. This includes planning and executing migrations of ESXi hosts and virtual machines, managing I SCSI storage network configurations, working with LVM logic volume manager for storage provisioning and migration and ensuring seamless cutover with minimal downtime. The role will encompass system configuration management, performance testing and tuning and application and service troubleshooting. Throughout the migration cycle the ideal candidate will be passionate about exploring and integrating technologies such as VMware, ISCSI network, Linux SaltStack and OpenShift to drive continued evolution of our highly scalable compute platform.\r\nResponsibilities Own and engineer the Linux computer platform at client during the server migration project ensuring its stability security and performance throughout all migration phases.\r\nPlan coordinate and execute end to end server migrations from the source data center to target location including physical servers ESXi hosts and virtual machines.\r\nManage and migrate VMware ESXi environments, including vMotion, storage vMotion and coal migrations of VMS across data center sites with minimal disruption\r\nConfigure troubleshoot and migrate iSCSI storage networks, ensuring proper connectivity multipathing, CHAP authentication and performance between source and target environments\r\nManage LVM configurations during migration, including volume group export/import, logical volume resizing, snapshot based migrations and file system integrity validation\r\nDevelop and maintain automation tooling to streamline migration tasks, implement, scale and test infrastructure services for repeatable and reliable migration workflows\r\nDevelop and execute migration runbooks rollback plans and validation checklists to ensure each migration wave is completed successfully and within defined maintenance windows\r\nCollaborate with internal clients and partner engineering teams across the organization to understand their needs, assess migration readiness, and deliver effective solution\r\nContribute to the evolution and integration of modern stack components including Kubernetes, OpenStack and other emerging technologies as part of post migration target architecture\r\nWork closely with first and second level support organizations to perform in-depth technical troubleshooting and resolve complex issues arising during and after migration activities\r\nDevelop and implement technical solutions and process improvements to enhance system reliability, efficiency and scalability to the target data center environments\r\nManage and optimize virtualization environments using VMware (ESXi) and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (CNV) with a focus on cross site VM migration and replant forming\r\nParticipate in the design and implementation of CID pipelines for infrastructure as a code to support automated migration and provisioning workflows\r\nMonitor system performance, identify bottlenecks and implement proactive measures to ensure optimal performance before, during and after each migration wave\r\nEnsure adherence to security best practices and compliance requirements across Linux infrastructure throughout the migration lifecycle\r\nSkills, Qualifications and Experience Bachelor's degree in science or engineering with minimum four years of hands on experience in a relevant role\r\nProven experience leading or participating in large scale data center or server migration projects including physical to virtual(P2V), virtual to virtual(V2V) and site to site migration\r\nExperience with architecture, implementation and operation of Linux based compute environments, including deep understanding of Linux OS internals\r\nStrong hands-on expertise with VMware ESXi dash V Sphere, including ESXi host builds VM provisioning, vMotion, storage vMotion, DRS, HA and cross-site ESXi and VM migration techniques\r\nIn depth knowledge of iSCSI storage networking, including iSCSI initiator/target configuration, multipathing(DM-Multipath), network segmentation for storage traffic, jumbo frames and troubleshooting iSCSI connectivity issues\r\nExpert level understanding of logic volume manager including physical volume, volume group and logical volume management; 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This includes planning and executing migrations of ESXi hosts and virtual machines, managing I SCSI storage network configurations, working with LVM logic volume manager for storage provisioning and migration and ensuring seamless cutover with minimal downtime. The role will encompass system configuration management, performance testing and tuning and application and service troubleshooting. 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