VM Ware Tech Lead Architect

Description

The candidate MUST be very strong technically with ESX. The candidate also should have strong experience working in a mission critical, high stress environments. Financial Services experience is strongly preferred. Experience handling an on call rotation (every 8 weeks) and understanding how to handle crisis situations are also mandatory.In addition, candidate must have experience with a 200+ server environment. Experience doing just conversions and upgrades is not enough candidates MUST know the bits and bytes of VMWare. Finally, the candidate must be polished and professional as attending meetings with Senior Management as well as presenting to Senior Management are job requisites too. Keys to this Position 1. ESX expertiseIndepth Knowledge of VMware architecture and hands on experience with Vmotion, ESX Ranger and other virtual management software. Experience with the most recent version of ESX is desirable.2. Our client would also like the candidate to have strong Windows Systems Engineering experience that includes troubleshooting and problem solving skills. Our client is presently using Windows 2003 server and will be migrating to Windows 2018. The candidate needs to have 2003 server (2018 would be a plus).3. The candidate should have strong experience working in a mission critical environment. Financial Services is strongly preferred.4. Experience handling an on call rotation (every 8 weeks) and understanding how to handle crisis situations is mandatory.5. Ideally the candidate should come from an environment similar to that of our Client's (900 Windows Servers globally). The candidate should have minimally managed 300 servers.6. Strong Active Directory and Microsoft Clustering skills are a big plus.