[Hiring] Senior Systems Engineer @Aubrant Digital

Role Description

Aubrant Digital is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer, VMware and Storage, to own the virtualization platform and the storage and backup behind it for a large US-based client. You will:

• Administer vSphere and vCenter across 17 datacenter hosts and 200+ remote site hosts.
• Run the host lifecycle, with hypervisor updates across about 250 hosts through the year.
• Script host lifecycle and compliance checks.
• Configure and test HA and DR.
• Lead the technical work on a VMware platform migration that is under way.
• Operate Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashBlade (about 1 PB) and Rubrik backup and recovery, including off-site backup to Azure.
• Handle capacity planning, replication, and retention.

You will join Aubrant's cloud and infrastructure engineering group (we call it a studio), which gives you a technical leader to escalate to, peers on other engagements to call on, and a shared catalog of scripts and hardened builds to start from.

Qualifications

• 7+ years administering VMware vSphere and vCenter in enterprise environments.
• ESXi host lifecycle and upgrades across a large host estate.
• HA and DR design, configuration, and testing on vSphere.
• At least one VMware platform upgrade or migration.
• Enterprise storage and backup operations.
• Scripting in PowerShell (PowerCLI) or Python, with changes kept in a Git repository (the client uses GitHub).
• Networking fundamentals (server IP addressing, subnets, firewall rules) and the ability to explain a needed network change to the network team.
• Ability to triage and resolve tickets and alerts independently through incident, change, and problem management, escalating only when needed.
• Willingness and availability to participate in the client's seven-day on-call rotation and to shift working hours for planned overnight maintenance windows.
• Professional written and spoken English; daily collaboration with a US-based client team.

Requirements

• Pure Storage FlashArray or FlashBlade.
• Rubrik backup and recovery.
• Capacity planning, replication, and retention policy.
• Datadog monitoring.
• Azure, including backup targets.

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