Lead Cloud Administrator

Job Description

Mandatory skill sets:
• Active certification of VMware VCP DCV 6 at the time of joining.
• At least 3+ years of relevant experience in handling VMware Virtual data centre.
• Basic knowledge and understanding of the architecture and management of vCloud Director.
• Experience in the deployment and management of ESXi hosts, vCenter server and VMs such as installation of Esx Servers, vSphere clients and vCenter Servers.
• Deployment of vms, and use of clones, snapshots and templates. Management of dc, clusters and templates.
• Configuration of Distributed switches and should have understanding of vlan flow and management of vnics, distributed /standard switches.
• Create the data stores for storing vms and data, present /assign LUN to Esx hosts.
• Configure and insights of HA,use DRS, Backups, P2v and v2V conversion.
• Manage Host storage (SAN , NAS , iSCSI).
• Scheduled patching of ESXi servers along with driver and firmware upgrades.
• Experience in Upgrading vCenter server and migration of infrastructure and updating vmtools, vmversion, vmfs and dvs.
• Capable of handling network and storage issues in VMware infrastructure.
• Capable of handling Windows and RHEL issues here and when required will be added advantage.
• Services for management of Cloud Services and related Server Infrastructure to maintain performance at optimum levels and help in running various system Services on 24X7 basis.
• Duty Timings : Duty in shift basis, 6 days a week (including public/national holidays)
Installation & configuration

Will work for at least one of the following cloud technology:

VMware Technology

Should be capable in setting up Cloud Service environment using state-of-art technology VMware with installation & configuration of Virtualization environment (i.e ESXi/vSphere, Virtual Cloud director/vRA and related s/w) Clustering over SAN/NAS Storage environment. Ensure proper configuration of virtualization for hosting multiple VMs with HA environment and tuning and security hardening.

Should be capable in setting up of Cloud infrastructure with self-service-provisioning and monitoring services using various software/tools. Setting up the Data protection mechanism (at local/remote site) using tool like VMware SRM /V-sphere replication etc.

Should be capable in writing Shell script, Perl/PHP script for batch programming & system monitoring. Setting up of Remote administration tools like SSH, ILO, RDP etc.
Open Source Technology

Should be capable in setting up Cloud Service environment using Open Source technology with installation & configuration of Virtualization environment

Clustering over SAN/NAS Storage environment. Ensure proper configuration of virtualization for hosting multiple VMs with HA environment and tuning and security hardening.

Should be capable in setting up of Cloud infrastructure with self-service-provisioning and monitoring services using any open source software/tools. Setting up the Data protection mechanism (at local/remote site) using any open source software/tools etc.

Should be capable in writing Shell script, Perl/PHP script for batch programming & system monitoring. Setting up of Remote administration tools like SSH, ILO, RDP etc.
Administration & Trouble Shooting

Responsible for Operating system administration, including:
• Management of users, processes
• Resource contention
• Preventive maintenance and management of upgrades including migration to higher versions and patches to ensure that the system is properly updated.
• Proactive & Preventive measures against any crash/failures of Services/Servers.

Regularly monitor, maintain, analysis system logs of the performance monitoring of servers including but not limited to monitoring CPU, disk space, memory utilization, I/O utilization, etc.Ensure that the bottlenecks in the infrastructure are identified and fine-tuning is done for optimal performance.
Routine Task

Allocation of fresh or additional compute/ storage space /network for any Cloud user.

Management & creation of user accounts, applying proper access control for using any Server resource / services.

Configuring, debugging & trouble shooting of cloud services running on Cloud infrastructure.

System log rotation. Monitoring & managing of VM/host security at infrastructure at level.

Maintaining/updating the documents on process/procedures/user-manuals etc. related to the activities involved in. Track on the OS/patch updates.

Lead Cloud Administrator should not only be able to perform all above work/task independently without any help but also be able to help/guide other staff / team members to perform the tasks/work.
Skills/Expertise

- RHCE certifications / equivalent certification in Cloud /Virtualization System Administration

Experience of installation, configuration, Management and Monitoring of Cloud Services for VMware/ Open-Source based Cloud Solutions.

Experience of installation, configuration, Management and Monitoring of high availability solutions like clustering / load balancing of servers, Server Virtualization (VMware,.).

Experience of administration and management of Linux based Servers

Knowledge ofIIS/Apache/TomcatWebServerforsuccessfulrunning &managingthevariousServiceslikeWWW,FTP,SMTPon production environment.

Databases like Mysql/MariaDB/Postgresql / Oracle etc. connectivity for applications running on Web/App servers.