Millington, TN30+ days ago
Essential Job Functions: Architecture Design: Architects storage, compute, and networking for all bare metal and virtual systems, while also meeting the companys needs for scalability, performance, and security; Cloud Solutions: Develops strategies for locally hosted cloud storage solutions and virtual environments; Performance Optimization: Monitors and optimizes storage performance, capacity planning, resource utilization, and licensing planning; Data Management: Ensures data integrity, availability, and security across all storage systems and virtual environments; Disaster Recovery: Designs and trains on disaster recovery solutions and backup strategies for cloud environments; Collaboration: Works closely with cross-functional teams, including Architecture, DevOps, Engineering groups, and security professionals, to ensure seamless integration of storage and virtualization solutions; Documentation: Maintains comprehensive documentation of architectures, configurations, and processes; Research and Development: Stays current with industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure our storage and virtualization strategies remain competitive; Support and Training: Provides technical support, training, scripting, and final escalation to operational and sales groups regarding storage and virtualization technologies; Budget Planning: Establishes lifecycles and budgets for all virtual environments and associated equipment; Network fabric: Works with the Architecture and operational groups on software defined cloud scale network fabric; Approves baselines of firmware, antivirus and security patches across all platforms; Leads change control by reviewing changes for technical accuracy and risk analysis; Partners with external vendors on solution architecture and procurement; Establishes and maintains policies, procedures, and technical documentation; Provides escalation for Sales and other engineering groups; Provides leadership to identify, manage, and resolve risks in a team environment; Works independently with little supervision on day-to-day tasks, receiving general instructions on new assignments; Supports systems in a 24x7 data center; Travels to project areas, business related events, and other Ritter Communications locations as required; Performs other duties as required. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Deep understanding of virtualization systems on hyper-converged infrastructure including Microsoft Azure Stack HCI and VMware with vSAN; Excellent verbal and written communication skills to both technical and non-technical stakeholders; Proficient working with Microsoft Azure public and private cloud infrastructure; Comprehensive automation and scripting abilities (PowerShell, REST, Python, etc;).