Senior Data Center Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Provide support for current and future enterprise systems
• Adherence to the administration of SMC Global IT security policies, procedures, best practices, and established standards
• Participate in and optimize IT Infrastructure implementations, forecasting, and maintenance
• Support of the design, development, and management of network servers, virtualization, storage, and monitoring systems
• Provide management with ways to improve administration, monitoring, reporting, and standard operating procedures
• Design, plan, install, review, and evaluate data center infrastructure
• Deployment of Servers and virtual environments, including but not limited to VMWare, various Windows server versions, and Linux
• Troubleshoot data center systems including any reported data center issues and recommend improvements required to enhance performance
• Identify and help create documentation and diagrams for the global data center knowledge base
• Manage current infrastructure equipment inventory levels to keep equipment up to date with current OS levels and required Enterprise functionalities
• Provide tactical and strategic input for overall data center planning and related projects including utilization of technology for cost savings or enhanced productivity for SMC
• Experience modifying and developing scripting or programming languages
• Work with customers to assist with data center capacity and high availability requirements
• Maintain a current level of technical knowledge and / or certification in data center technologies
• All other duties as assigned

PHYSICAL DEMANDS / WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Off-hour meetings and work to accommodate global time zones
• Carry mobile phone during work and off-hours
• Collaborative team environment in a shared workspace
• General office, computer room, warehouse, and factory areas
• Infrequent off-hours work and local / international travel as required
• Able to sit for extended periods
• Minimum lifting requirements of 15 pounds

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Associate degree or commensurate work experience
• 5+ years of experience with a mixture of the following :
• Practical experience with VCF, VMware vSphere 7 (6.5+) (including multiple sites / clusters, host profiles, customizations), vMotion, VMware ESXi, vCenter, vROPS, Horizon, IDPA, NSX, NSX-T, VDI deployment, configuration, and maintenance in production environments
• Administration of VMware virtual environment using vSphere spanning multiple data centers and networks
• Experience with Dell VxRail, Data Domain, Avamar, EMC, and IDPA storage platforms
• A minimum of 4 years experience deploying, managing, migrating, and upgrading Microsoft technologies such as Windows Server, Active Directory, GPOs, SCCM, O365, and security policies
• Experience deploying, troubleshooting, and maintaining Windows Server 2012 and beyond
• Experience deploying and managing MFA and security solutions such as Okta and PAM (Privileged Access Management)
• Basic Networking Knowledge (VLANs, firewalls, load balancers, NAT, DNS, LANs / WANs)
• Experience with common network services, SNMP, Syslog, DNS, NTP, DHCP, AD, etc.
• Experience with public cloud providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google
• Analysis of data center performance using standard tools, to provide root cause analysis, recommendations, guidance, and expertise in maintaining the highest level of performance
• Perform complex troubleshooting, backup, archiving, and recovery tasks
• Experience conducting routine maintenance for all systems as needed for security and feature updates
• Assist in the architecture design, implementation, commissioning and build-out of new facilities
• Industry certifications with Microsoft, and / or VMware preferred
• Ability to travel abroad

Company Description

SMC Corporation of America is a part of a global organization that supports our customers in every industrialized country and is the U.

S. subsidiary of SMC Corporation based in Japan. Since its establishment, SMC has been a leader in pneumatic technology, providing the various industries with technology and products to support automation based on the guiding principle of contributing to automation labor savings in industry.

Over the past 50+ years, SMC's products have become established as a recognized international brand through sales, technical, supply and after sale services in world markets.

Sales have grown to achieve a 30% global market share.

Subsidiaries and joint ventures have been setup in a total of 53 countries. Production facilities are located in 30 countries.

In addition, a sales network extends throughout 83 countries, with local services in 500 locations. SMC offers technology accumulated through the years, engineers that bring it to life in new products, production capacity which can deliver a variety of products in a short time, and an extensive sales network in the U.S. and throughout the world.

With its goal of ever more advanced automation, and using its many achievements as a base, SMC is developing high-quality, highly reliable products to contribute to automation in industry, as well as in familiar areas of everyday life.

Company Description

SMC Corporation of America is a part of a global organization that supports our customers in every industrialized country and is the U.

S. subsidiary of SMC Corporation based in Japan. Since its establishment, SMC has been a leader in pneumatic technology, providing the various industries with technology and products to support automation based on the guiding principle of contributing to automation labor savings in industry.

Over the past 50+ years, SMC's products have become established as a recognized international brand through sales, technical, supply and after sale services in world markets.

Sales have grown to achieve a 30% global market share. r n r nSubsidiaries and joint ventures have been setup in a total of 53 countries.

Production facilities are located in 30 countries. In addition, a sales network extends throughout 83 countries, with local services in 500 locations.

SMC offers technology accumulated through the years, engineers that bring it to life in new products, production capacity which can deliver a variety of products in a short time, and an extensive sales network in the U.

S. and throughout the world. r n r nWith its goal of ever more advanced automation, and using its many achievements as a base, SMC is developing high-quality, highly reliable products to contribute to automation in industry, as well as in familiar areas of everyday life.