Overview
The Virtualization and Systems Administrator will support the development, virtualization, maintenance, and optimization of core infrastructure systems and architectures to support strategic initiative delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer and maintain Proxmox virtualization clusters.
- Manage VM provisioning, cloning, snapshots, backups, and lifecycle operations.
- Configure high availability (HA) and failover mechanisms.
- Perform cluster monitoring, capacity planning, and resource optimization.
- Manage virtual networking.
- Monitor cluster health, CPU, memory, storage, and network performance.
- Diagnose and resolve virtualization, storage, and networking issues.
- Tune virtual machine resource allocations.
- Conduct regular maintenance, upgrades, and security patching of Proxmox nodes.
- Administer Kubernetes clusters.
- Conduct storage volume management tasks.
- Optimize high-throughput storage paths and performance partitioning strategies.
- Provide operational support for specialized on-premises applications.
- Debug application layer issues, service disruptions, and database connectivity dropouts.
- Manage containerized application stacks using Kubernetes.
- Participate in technical solution designs for upgrading, migrating, or replacing legacy enterprise environments.
- Formulate infrastructure migration steps, system topology blueprints, and infrastructure-as-code runbooks.
Required Experience
- Minimum 6 years of professional experience in designing and deploying data systems, data center virtualization, infrastructure management, with demonstrated consultancy or technical leadership roles is required.
- Proven experience with cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP), container orchestration (Kubernetes), DevOps automation, Proxmox VE (or equivalent enterprise hypervisors), virtual machine provisioning, cluster high-availability (HA), and network configuration (VLANs, bridges) is required.
- Demonstrated experience in storage area network (SAN) administration, including the integration, masking, and management of new LUNs, is required.
- Experience with infrastructure monitoring tools, and troubleshooting on-premises hosted applications is required.
- Strong familiarity with legacy system migration strategies, infrastructure modernization planning, and disaster recovery execution is desirable.
Qualifications
A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, System Administration, Statistics, Data Science, or related fields is required.
