Sr Cloud & Virtualization Architect
Location
Bangalore | India
Job description
- A Senior Cloud and Virtualization Architect is an experienced and accomplished Azure hybrid cloud and VMware virtualization expert contributing to a dynamic, infrastructure design team making a difference
- The position s primary technology focus is modernizing onsemi s traditional on-premises vSphere virtualization and growing Dell Azure Stack HCI hybrid cloud footprint
- The Senior Cloud and Virtualization Architect core objectives include designing and executing on architectural directives while ensuring 24x7x365 infrastructure availability for an energy efficient, global semiconductor company
- The role requires versatility along with initiative
- The ideal candidate will have extensive infrastructure design/engineering expertise, know how to think outside-the-box and will share in responsibilities designing, implementing, enhancing, and supporting the provisioning, configuration and management of hybrid cloud infrastructure
- The Senior Cloud and Virtualization Architect will work closely with other architects, infrastructure team members, application developers, and business stakeholders
- Adhering to industry best practices to support onsemi s business objectives and user community experience is of utmost importance
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Engineers, implements, and supports hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions (data center, compute, networking, storage, systems hardware, distributed systems management, disaster recovery, security)
- Upgrades and consolidates global, on-premises vSphere environments
- Manages and administers the Azure cloud environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance and security
- Designs, develops, and implements highly available, multi-region solutions within Azure
- Analyzes existing operational standards, processes, and/or governance to identify and implement improvements
- Migrates existing infrastructure services to cloud-based solutions
- Monitoring, performance tuning, and resource optimization
- Develops and implements policy driven data protection best practices to ensure hybrid cloud solutions are protected from data loss
- Executes efficient life cycle management methodologies of network, storage and compute virtual infrastructure with an automation only mindset
- Ability to analyze business problems and define technical solutions, with ROI and TCO analysis
- Technical leadership experience with information systems design, implementation, and operations in major projects
- Creates and maintains architectural diagrams and documentation
- Solid track record with hybrid cloud solutions (automation and orchestration, cloud management, cloud native apps)
- Leads focused activities to improve availability and efficiency for critical onsemi systems
- Experience generating useful report metrics and analytics on the health of virtual and hybrid cloud platforms
- Ensures compliance with onsemi and IT general controls and policies
- Mentors and assists global VMware and Azure cloud operations teams
REQUIREMENTS
Years of experience: Minimum of 10 years experience in VMware infrastructure design and engineering; minimum 2 years experience in Azure Cloud
Education: Bachelors or Masters degree (or equivalent work experience) from a regionally accredited institution in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Information Sciences, Information Technology, or Software Engineering
Certification At least one, preferably two or more of the following certifications: VMware VCP, VCAP; Microsoft MSCE, Microsoft Azure Administrator; Red Hat RHCSA, RHCE, RHCA
Communication: Fluent English (written and verbal)
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE**
- 15+ years progressive IT experience
- 10+ years vSphere vCenter enterprise administration experience with at least 100 hosts and 2,000 virtual machines
- Extensive vSphere vCenter deployment, migration, upgrade, and consolidation experience
- Expert level vSphere vCenter troubleshooting and resolution
- 2+ years with IaaS and PaaS solutions
- 2+ years Azure public cloud including Azure Arc and Azure VMs
- 2+ years Azure Stack HCI deployment and management experience
- Proven virtual machine performance optimization
- Passionate about cloud computing technologies, understanding business drivers, and emerging trends
- Advanced proficiency (7+ years) with Linux and/or Windows administration/engineering in an enterprise environment
- Proficiency with Microsoft Active Directory
- Strong knowledge of and use with storage protocols including iSCSI, Fibre Channel, and NFS in conjunction with datastores
- vSphere/vCenter SSL certificate implementation and management experience in an enterprise environment
- Zero trust security focused
- 2+ years with disaster recovery implementation and management
- 4+ years infrastructure automation using Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, Puppet, Chef, or other similar languages
- Strong understanding of systems architecture from the application through infrastructure stack
- Effective communicator of complex virtualization/hybrid cloud concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Extremely self-motivated and directed with a keen attention to detail and willingness to assume responsibility
- Flexibility to adapt and adjust until the business objectives are accomplished
- Excellent problem solving and decision-making skills
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE**
- 2+ years with vSAN
- 2+ years with Dell VxRail HCI
- 2+ years Terraform Cloud and Azure DevOps
- 2+ years with Azure Backup, Azure AKS, Azure databases, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Archive Storage
- 2+ years cloud hosted disaster recovery
- 2+ years developing infrastructure as code (IaC) leveraging cloud native tooling to ensure automated and consistent platform deployments.
- Familiarity with agile project management techniques
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