Position: VMWare Automation Engineer
Company: Intellias
Experience required: 3y
Category: QA Automation
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-05-01T00:00:00+03:00

You will work as a member of the Platform Engineering team looking after our internal cloud solution built on top of VMWare. As a member of the Platform Engineering team, you will codify our infrastructure, define and deploy our monitoring and alerting stack, develop new automation and features which are going to be used in a self-service approach by our product deployment teams.

Collaborate with the Cloud Operations, Security, and Architecture teams in establishing the best-of-breed operational practices.

Technical skills:

- Expert at VMware automation/orchestration (VMware VRealize Automation, VMware VRealize Orchestrator‎)
- Expert at VMware virtualization (ESX, VSAN, NSX)
- Good Javascript automation skills (VRA) 
- Infrastructure as Code concepts and practices (Git, VRA Blueprints)
- Experience in configuring and troubleshooting VMWare environments

Responsibilities:

- Develop, implement, and manage data center network infrastructure in a private cloud environment.
- Deploy, maintain, and continually optimize network and firewall configurations for the on-premises cloud-based infrastructure
- Develop and maintain technical diagrams and documentation
- A solid networking (routing and switching) foundation, with an in-depth understanding of network protocols and applications, such as OSPF, BGP, DNS, DHCP, SSL/TLS/Encryption.
- Solid understanding of virtual hypervisors like ESX, server hardware technologies.
- Experience with the following technologies :
- Arista switches, NSX, INFOBLOX. Network Virtualization (SDN / NSX-V / NSX-T) and integration with Container environments (Kubernetes/OpenShift).
- Professional experience implementing and supporting cloud services (VMware SSDC), modern data center architectures, Software Defined - Networks (SDN) with a broad knowledge of current IT infrastructure and cloud services trends
- Strong background in data center networking technologies like Arista MLAG, Spine-Leaf designs, CVX/CVP and VXLAN layer2 extensions, EVPN, etc. Familiarity with Arista EOS and CloudVision is strongly preferred.
- Highly proficient with network troubleshooting, performance tuning techniques, network packet capture, and analysis
- Experience with network management tools (Cloud Vision, CVX, Vmware NSX manager, IPAM)
- Scripting experience in Python (or similar languages), to facilitate automation and troubleshooting; experience using RESTful APIs to query supported applications.