Urgent Direct Client Requirement on System Administrator (VMware & Windows Experience) @ Columbus, OH

Hello Dear, Greetings ,
This is Chandra from Nixsol Inc.
 
We have an Urgent Direct Client Requirement on System Administrator (VMware & Windows Experience)

 

Job Title : System Administrator (VMware & Windows Experience)

Location : Columbus, OH

Duration : 1 Year

 

The System Administrator should have experience with VMware & Windows. This position STARTS July 30.

 

This position is for the BWC Core Direction project. BWC is currently operating in an environment with limited to moderate automated functionality and data access.  Many business processes have manual or system (e.g., Excel, Access, etc.) workarounds.  Multiple applications are used to support single processes.  Lack of data, when and where needed, lack of integration between existing legacy applications and implementation of business process change regardless of application support drive many of the workarounds.  A portion of correspondence is manually generated and custom letter databases exist throughout BWC.  Multiple processes utilize the same workarounds.  Claims processes are the most mature, followed by billing processes with policy processes being the least mature.

 

The BWC Core System initiative, will replace several legacy systems with a claims, policy and billing COTS software solution known as Powersuite.  These legacy systems include:

1. Claims processing – Version 3

2.Claims processing – Imaging

3.Policy Management and Billing – WCIS

 

The following legacy system’s functionality may be impacted by the BWC Core System initiative:

1. Rates and Payments – R&P

2.Ohiobwc.com

 

This position is for 2000 hours beginning July 30th for FY13 subject to Administrative and Budgetary approval.

 

System Administrator 4 – (VMware & Windows Experience)

               

REQUIRED

Candidate should be a Sr System Administrator that has mentored lower levels and is able to handle duties without hand holding and supervision. Also be able to assist the Architect  with technical infrastructure.

 

VMware:

•Minimum 5 years working with multi-tiered applications running on VMware vSphere

•Managing ESXi 4.x, 5.x w/ vCenter and Update Manager, Remote CLI, PowerCLI

•VMware networking with Virtual Distributed Switches(including Nexus 1000v)

•VMware storage configurations(fiber SAN)

•Backup and Recovery

•DR solutions

•VMware Security(following VMware hardening guides)

•Monitoring and Performance troubleshooting

 

Microsoft:

•Minimum 5 years’ experience designing and administering Windows Server environments(2003, 2008, 2008R2)

•Active Directory

•SCCM

•Group Policy management

•Familiar with IIS configuration and troubleshooting

 

Desired Skills/Experience

Linux:

•Minimum 3 years’ experience designing and administering Red Hat Enterprise 5x and 6x server environments

•Integrated authentication with Active Directory

•Linux hosting Oracle DB’s

 

Vmware:

•vShield

•vCloud Director

•VC Operations

 

Duties for this position:

•Monitoring

   -Infrastructure, Vmware – requires in-depth knowledge of tools including vCenter Server, vCenter Ops, andvFoglight

   -Linux and Windows OS –  requires in-depth knowledge of MS perfmon, eventlogs and usage of Logrythm for log searching

   -Hardware – use insight manager to monitor health of physical devices

 

•Installation and Maintenance

   -Knowledge of system installation and issues associated with installation  - vMware, Windows, and Linux

   -Keep all system up to date – assist group with patching, updating hardware, vmware hosts, windows and linux guests using VMware update manager, MS SCCM, and Linux tools

   -Basic hardware knowledge to assist in keeping firmware updated and compatible

 

•Root Cause Analysis

   -Investigate alarms and alerts - requires in-depth knowledge of VMware ESXi, MS Server 2008, Linux Redhat operating systems and troubleshooting tools and techniques, including vCenter, ESXtop, and PowerCli

   -Assist other by providing tier 2 troubleshooting support – Must have very good technical knowledge of both the Host operating system and the Guests(both windows and Linux), also needs to have very good understanding of networking concepts and technologies.

   -Must be able to analyze and redirect problems to correct individuals/teams

 

•Planning

   -Meet with customers to gather and review requirements and recommend acceptable solutions, including Hardware specifications, network connectivity, Storage types and connectivity, resource usage, virtualization options(HA, DRS, FT, etc.)

   -Work with customers and other groups to propose business continuance options for various systems

   -Work with team to plan upgrades and changes to infrastructure and servers

 

•Mentoring

   -Provide operations level system admins with instruction and best practices concerning both the vmware infrastructure and the guest OS’s(Windows and Linux)

•Security

   -Must be knowledgeable on security guidelines and  best practices with regards to security at the Host, Guest and Physical levels and must adhere to these guidelines.

 

Skill Required

Experience working with multi-tiered applications running on VMware vSphere             Required         5            Years  

Managing ESXi 4.x, 5.x w/ vCenter and Update Manager, Remote CLI, PowerCLI            Required         3            Years  

VMware networking with Virtual Distributed Switches(including Nexus 1000v)  Required         5          Years              

VMware storage configurations(fiber SAN) Required         5          Years  

VMware-Backup and Recovery         Required         5          Years              

VMware Security(following VMware hardening guides      Required         5          Years  

Monitoring and Performance troubleshooting        Required         5          Years              

Microsoft- experience designing and administering Windows Server environments(2003, 2008, 2008R2)            Required         5          Years  

Microsoft-Active Directory      Required         5          Years              

Microsoft-SCCM          Required         5          Years  

Microsoft-Group Policy management           Required         5          Years              

Microsoft-Familiar with IIS configuration and troubleshooting       Required         5          Years  

Linux- experience designing and administering Red Hat Enterprise 5x and 6x server environments       Desired            3          Years              

Integrated authentication with Active Directory      Desired            3          Years  

Linux hosting Oracle DB’s      Desired            3          Years              

VMware -vShield        Desired            3          Years  

VMware -VC Operations        Desired            3          Years              

 VMware -vCloud Director     Desired            3          Years

                                                                                                                       

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Regards,
Chandra K.

Nixsol Inc.,
53 Knightsbridge Road

Suite # 216

Piscataway, NJ 08854.
(:(732)-832-7933
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