System Admin

Systems Engineer, Schedule:Monday-Friday, 8am-5 pm Location: Hybrid in Charlotte, Portland, or Chicago Term: 3-month contract to hire, must beable to convert, Industry:XPO Logistics Requirements: Bachelors degree or equivalent related work or military experience 5 years hands on VMware experience Coding / scripting experience, particularly in the area of infrastructure as code 7 years experience in enterprise IT infrastructure environments Experience in multi-site environment Experience in managing and delivering on multiple projects with competing time and resource requirements Advanced knowledge of several of the following systems, technologies, and concepts VMware vSphere and virtual systems administration (certification a plus) VMware vRealize Operations, Automation, Orchestrator, Log Insight VMware NSX-T VMware Tanzu Citrix Hypervisor / XenServer Administration of public cloud infrastructure in an enterprise context GCP, Azure, AWS One or more scripting languages/automation tools: Python, BASH, Ansible/AWX, PowerShell, YAML, Jenkins, GitHub, Terraform Zerto Virtual Replication for vSphere SAN Storage Technologies FC Fabric, block-level data replication, use of snapshots, file protocols (NFS/SMB) Disaster Recovery processes and procedures Networking load balancing, VLAN tagging, port channels, firewalls, routing Systems support for MS-SQL and Oracle databases in virtual systems Experience operating within IT Service Management (ITSM) and / or ITIL processes Ability to manage and present data using Microsoft Excel