Technology Support Lead - VMWare

Join our dynamic team to innovate and refine technology operations, impacting the core of our business services.

As a Technology Support Lead in Corporate Sector – Enterprise Technology, you will play a leadership role in ensuring the operational stability, availability, and performance of our production services. Critical thinking while overseeing day-to-day maintenance of the firm’s systems will be key and set you up for success as you navigate tasks related to identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving issues to ensure a seamless user experience.

Job responsibilities

• Lead teams of technologists that provide end-to-end application or infrastructure service delivery for the successful business operations of the firm

• Execute policies and procedures that ensure operational stability and availability

• Monitor production environments for anomalies, address issues, and drive evolution of utilization of standard observability tools

• Escalate and communicate issues and solutions to the business and technology stakeholders, actively participating from incident resolution to service restoration

• Lead incident, problem, and change management in support of full stack technology systems, applications, or infrastructure

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise troubleshooting, resolving, and maintaining information technology services

• Experience managing applications or infrastructure in a large-scale technology environment both on premises and public cloud

• Proficient in observability and monitoring tools and techniques

• Experience executing on processes in scope of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework

• Proficiency in service-level changes to a system and troubleshooting components with VMware vCF environments, VCloud Foundation – VCF; VMWare Certifications Required.

• Experience as a VMware ESXi system engineer in an Enterprise class environment with vSAN

• Experience in large-scale, dynamic, high-availability production environments

• Perform analytics on previous incidents and usage patterns to better predict issues and take proactive actions

• Build and drive adoption for greater self-healing and resiliency patterns; Lead and participate in performance tests; identify bottlenecks, opportunities for optimization, and capacity demands

• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages: Python, JavaScript, PowerShell; Strong networking background, with good knowledge of related protocols and technologies (e.g. BGP, VRF, MPLS, IP, TCP, UDP), as applied to a data center context

• Strong computing fundamentals; A passion for building software, and a long-term career as a software technologist; Demonstrated leadership in an agile team

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Working knowledge in one or more general purpose programming languages and/or automation scripting

• Practical experience with public cloud

• Experience with VMware NSX-T and Hyper-V a strong plus