Vmware Specialist

**Who we are**

Simnet is not your average managed service provider. We are NOT a break/fix shop, we are dedicated and passionate IT personnel that focus our energy on top-of-the-line solutions that are tailored to suit our clients’ needs. We value learning, we value transparency, and we value our employees.

We are in search of our next superstar. If you have superb troubleshooting skills and want to be hands-on with the newest technology, then Simnet may be a great fit for you.

**What you’ll do**
- Assist in the design and implement short and long-term strategic plans to ensure infrastructure capacity meets existing and future requirements.
- Participates in the development of IT strategies in collaboration with management.
- Conducts research and makes recommendations on products, services, protocols, and standards in support of all infrastructure procurement and development efforts.
- Assist with the planning and deployment of infrastructure security measures.
- Monitors and analyzes network performance across the organization’s LANs, WANs, and wireless deployments.
- Ensures the stable operation and efficient performance of company networks.
- Monitors system capacity to determine its effect on performance and recommend enhancements to meet new or changing network demands.
- Identifies and remedies network performance bottlenecks.
- Installs and configures all network hardware and equipment, including routers, switches, hubs, UPSs, and so on.
- Handles escalation of problems forwarded by team members by direction/mentoring or by resolution.
- Perform VMware vCenter and ESX upgrades and patching
- Develops and maintains system-related documentation to facilitate implementation and/or adoption of system changes.
- Identifies solutions to meet and continuously improve system performance and uptime. Recommends enhancements to meet new system demands.

**Requirements**:
**What You’ll Know**
- College diploma or university degree in the field of computer science and/or 4 years equivalent work experience.
- Certifications: ITIL, VMware VCP certification or good knowledge/experience of VMware highly valued
- Extensive hands-on technical knowledge of TCP/IP protocols, Firewalls, VPN, Routing and NAT’ing
- Experience with mid to large size server operations including daily operations and maintenance,
- Experience with project-based work such as migrations, upgrades
- Experience installing, configuring, upgrading, troubleshooting, and managing server environments
- Proficient with Windows Server (including services - DNS, DHCP, etc), Active Directory, Exchange, RDS Server Farms
- Strong knowledge of network management and analysis tools
- Strong experience with VMware; Clustering, Distributed Switches, vCenter, vRealize ops/log insights, vCloud Director, NSX, DRS, HA, vSAN
- Experience in migrating workloads to/from on-premises to VMware.
- Working knowledge with Azure.
- Experience working and managing blade servers.