Principal Consultant - Singapore - HCL SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.

Description

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the overall health, performance, and capacity of VMware Cloud Foundation platform.
• Understanding of NSX-T for configuration and using NSX-T for incident troubleshooting.
• Able to use and configure hardware alerts using available tools (VMware/HP/PaloAlto).
• Able to understand and use VM functions, datastores and backup application.
• Knowledge and understanding of storage functions in VMs and ability to manage allocation and distribution of presented storage, for eg., VSAN is required.
• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of internal customer needs, and innovating for continual improvement.
• Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding (via vROPS, vRLI, vRNI).
• Enforce best practices for metrics gathering, monitoring, and alerting.
• Participate in platform management, capacity planning and incident recovery.
• Provide network administration and troubleshooting via vROPS and NSX-T.
• Perform deep dives into both systemic and latent reliability issues.
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts.
• Willing to work on & off work hours when required (Standby).
• Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment and where things need to be sorted at in a dynamic environment.

Skills Requirement:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or similar areas.
• 6-9 years of experience in related field.
• Experience with VMware virtualization skills is a MUST (vSphere, NSX-T, vSAN, VCF, vROPS, vRNI, vRLI).
• Experience using and utilizing VROps, VRNI and VRLI for troubleshooting and analysis of incidents.
• Experience with general performance tuning and optimization of all aspects of platforms and services (systems, network).
• Knowledge and ability to use NSX-T Load Balancer.
• Knowledge in renewing certificates in NSX-T.
• Knowledge in Networking, Exposure in Tanzu and Kubernetes is a plus.
• Prior experience with any one of cloud platforms - vCA, AWS or Azure.