VM/Hypervisor Expert

VM/Hypervisor Expert

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work.

We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world.

Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next.

We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here.

We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs.

We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you.

Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

This position is a VM/Hypervisor Expert role on the Compute & Cloud Services Engineering organization (CCSE).

CCSE is responsible for building and operating software that supports HPE server hardware.

We maintain a collection of system management products that we either operate as a SaaS or license to our
customers.

We're part of the Compute business unit which is responsible for selling and supporting server hardware.

Job Description
The VM/Hypervisor Expert is a role for a moderately experienced engineer that can work independently with mentors and other technical experts.

They need to be skilled at managing and configuring hypervisors, building and automating virtual machines, and helping accelerate how other teams use these tools.

They
also need to be able to learn an expanded skillset over time including integrating on-premise and cloud VMs into a large build pipeline, designing test automations that leverage ephemeral/immutable VMs, and working with IaaS tools (Terraform) in AWS and in on-prem datacenters.

Responsibilities specific to this role include:


* Deploying, configuring, automating, and monitoring several hypervisor solutions that will be used for development and product validation.

(HPE VME, VMWare vCenter, Nutanix AHV, and Hyper-V)


* Integrating and automating product testing on a matrix of hypervisor/VM products and versions


* Participate in on-call support as part of a rotational schedule

Required Skills


* Typically 4-7 years experience


* Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or closely related quantitative discipline, or comparable work experience


* Critical thinking and problem solving


* Experience managing all aspects of hypervisor platforms including installation, operation, performance, and availability


* Experience automating deployments in AWS and on-prem, automating a server bring-up including power-on, OS installation, OS configuration, applications installation


* General knowledge of basic IT functions like monitoring, alerting, single sign-on, basic networking, firew...