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Senior Virtualization Architect – Work From Home

We are seeking a talented and self-motivated Senior Virtualization Architect to join our growing technology team. The company culture emphasizes teamwork and focuses on continuous integration and test-driven development. The ideal Senior Virtualization Architect will have worked within the financial industry with a robust background in virtualization systems designs, implementation and support. The successful Senior Virtualization Architect must be highly self-motivated, excel at multitasking, and comfortable working in a demanding, state of the art trading environment. This position is a 100% Remote opportunity.

Responsibilities:

– Responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance and support of virtual desktop, server and storage technologies and solutions.
– Strategic Planning with other business units and key stakeholders to diagnose and resolve complex incidents and requests.
– Capacity plan for rapid growth of virtual environment.
– Perform planned maintenance activities on an established cycle.
– Maintain accurate and up to date inventory & documentation.
– Automate any and all tasks that can be automated.
– Stay current with new developments in virtualization technologies.
– On-call for overnights, weekends and holidays on a rotational basis with openness to change.
– Support other key initiatives as the business dictates.

Qualifications:

– Bachelor’s Degree from a 4-year university.
– Computer Science, Information Science or related technical field.
– Strong GPA (3.5 or higher).
– 5+ years of experience with virtualization (VMware/Citrix/Hyper-V/etc.) architecture design, deployment, administration, networking, performance monitoring/tuning, security hardening, troubleshooting and production operations.
– Must be able to work with staff in other IT functional areas to implement redundant, resilient VDI and general-purpose virtualization infrastructure.
– Experience with Source code control systems such as GIT, and bug tracking systems like JIRA.
– Strong understanding of virtual CPU, virtual memory, networking and storage setup.
– Experience implementing and operating mission critical technology components with HA, DR, and Business Continuity capabilities.
– Extensive knowledge of virtual networking concepts and implementations.
– Fluent in Python or similar scripting language.
– Excellent written and verbal communication.
– Experience with Ansible or similar configuration/automation tools will give you an advantage.

Benefits include medical insurance, retirement plan, PTO, etc. Salary: 80K+ DOE. Keywords: Chicago IL Jobs, Senior Virtualization Architect, VMware, Citrix, Hyper-V, VDI, Git, Jira, Scripting, Python, Software Engineer, Software Developer, Programming, Programmer Analyst, Remote, Work From Home, Trading, Financial, Chicago Recruiters, Information Technology Jobs, IT Jobs, Chicago Recruiting

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