Virtualization Engineer
Millennium Management LLC is a global hedge fund with more than 6,000 employees and offices in North America, Europe and Asia. We pursue a global multi-strategy approach to investing, seeking to achieve above-average risk-adjusted returns. Our global investment strategies include Relative Value Fundamental Equity, Statistical Arbitrage, Fixed Income, Merger Arbitrage, Futures/Currency, and Options among others.
The talent and dedication of our people are critical to our success. We offer an opportunity for developing one's professional career while working with individuals trained in a variety of disciplines in a collegial and dynamic environment. We also offer a broad range of competitive benefits on a global basis.
Job Function Summary:
This is a unique opportunity for an expert with deep knowledge in both virtualization and storage technologies. The principal architect will be a hands-on design engineer for developing and building the virtualization technologies for virtual servers and VDI using VMware and Nutanix technologies.
Required Skills:
6-8 years of hands on experience with VMWare technologies
2 - 3 years of hands on experience with Nutanix HCI technologies
Extensive Virtualization Experience - design, implement, and manage virtual environments, including Datacenter cluster(s) managed by vCenter.
Experience with VMware vCenter design/Nutanix Prism Central and implementation best practices.
The Virtualization Administrator / Engineer must be an expert with virtualization in a VMware or Nutanix environment, including demonstrated experience with configuring/troubleshooting.
Demonstrated experience in virtualization and consolidation of server technologies, specifically VMware and Nutanix Virtual Infrastructure
Experience with building and maintaining high-availability (>99%) VMware environments
Thorough understanding of high availability, SRM/Zerto, fault tolerance, and other BCP/DR technologies.
Ability to perform root cause analysis on all VMware products. E.g. ESX hosts, Virtual Centers, and Virtual Machines
Ability to administer, maintain, and troubleshoot Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) attached to VMware environments
Understanding of virtual environments with respect to proactive performance analysis and identification of potential bottlenecks
Provide support in performance monitoring, backups, reporting, Root Cause Analysis, and resolution for VMware environments
Demonstrate good judgment in solving problems as well as identifying problems in advance, and proposing solutions
Ability to lead, and own projects
Ability to collaborate with a team working across multiple locations
Strong customer service skills
Thorough knowledge of Active Directory
Good knowledge of MS clustering and SQL server is a plus.
Good grasp of Windows and Linux operating systems
Thorough knowledge of setting up BCP different technologies such as Zerto, SRM and etc
Responsibilities:
Design enterprise level virtual technologies for the firm
Manage the day-to-day administration of VMWare and Nutanix clusters
Performance and capacity management projections
Create documentation for best practices in deploying Hyper converge solutions
Provide virtual platform system technical performance and availability recommendations
Plan and engineer expansion of converged infrastructure
Deploy and test HA/BCP virtual environments for the firm
Provide guidance for virtualization best practices
Participate in the design and support of all backend infrastructure components for the virtual environment for the firm.
Critical Technologies:
VMWare ESX/vSphere, Nutanix AHV
HA/SRM/BCP/DR
Hyper Converge
Storage Related Skills/Knowledge – Cisco MDS FC switch, Pure Storage and NetApp
Experience with working with GPU at the enterprise level.
Extensive server hardware knowledge with HPE, Dell or SuperMicro
Thorough knowledge of SAN and fiber channel switches
Knowledge and working experience with Windows (Preferred 2012 and later versions) and Active Directory.
Network knowledge, skills and demonstrated experience in a complex network data center Environment.
PowerShell script or equivalent demonstrated experience
Knowledge of Automation tools such as Chef, Jenkin, Pipelines and etc is a plus
Experience with other hypervisors such Citrix XenServer, Hyperv is a plus.
Container experience with Kubernetes or Docker is a plus