Senior Virtualization Engineer

The Senior Virtualization engineer will be responsible for:

• Plan, design, and implement end-to-end virtualization solutions to meet business needs, including virtual machine deployment, networking, and storage configurations.
• Create and deploy Windows and Linux VMs on various hardware platforms and hypervisors.
• Optimize and run innovative solution using Dockerization techniques.
• Develop dashboards to capture the data from various runs of the applications to visualize, analyse and optimize
• Use programming skills, innovation and engineering to implement new ideas, develop tools and applications or improvise existing methods, tools, processes and features.
• Implement and maintain security policies and procedures for virtualized environments, including access control, encryption, and intrusion detection.
• Develop tools to measure various execution timings of various events in the system at the required granularity.
• Responsible to plan and complete assigned scope of work within in the required timelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of product management, R&D, and other functions, to understand their needs and develop innovative solutions.

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS:

• Master’s/PhD in computer science, Information technology (IT), electrical engineering, or electric power engineering, specifically in the computer and electric power engineering field with hands-on experience in data science.
• Expertise in DevOps with Ansible with a minimum 5 to 6 years of experience.
• Hands on experience with hypervisors such as EsXi, KVM, Xen ..etc, Windows & Linux Virtual Machines, Dockers and related tools
• Strong programming skills in C, Python, any scripting languages (PowerShell, PowerCLI, bash) on Windows & Linux.
• Deployment experience of Microservices architecture and tools.
• Strong root causing, trouble shooting and debugging skills using tools such as Wireshark, TCPDump and other Linux and Windows system tools.
• Passion for engineering with Strong technical aptitude and an analytic approach to trouble shooting and problem solving quickly and with the right tools
• Quick Learner and can develop a micro and macro understanding of the scope of work through self-learning and seeking out the right resources – virtual & people.
• Ability & rigor to clearly document and explain design, architecture, logic.
• Able to share ideas and work well in a team environment, proactive approach to tasks displaying initiative.
• Guide and mentor others in the team.
• Flexible and adaptable; open to change and modification of tasks, working in multi-tasking environment.

DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS:

• 9+ years of industry experience.
• Prior experience in relevant areas of power systems & programming.
• Hands-on on Yocto and building custom Linux distributions.
• Understanding of TCP/IP communication stack and related communication protocols.
• Ability to administer, maintain, and troubleshoot Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) attached to VMware environments.
• Understanding of various Logging techniques for performance analysis on Linux.
• Understanding of Industrial & Substation automation protocols such as Modbus, DNP3, IEC 60870, IEC 61850, etc.
• Understanding of equipment and tools such as secondary injection test kits, protocol analysers and simulators, MATLAB, LabVIEW, etc.