Capacity Planner
Job ID:
21872
Location:
Auburn Hills, MI
Position Type:
Permanent
Required Skills:
- Manage and plan for capacity across the enterprise. Design VM farms, monitor health and performance of physical capacity based on virtual usage.
- CISCO UCS, VMware, X86 expertise
Expiry Date:
2 December 2016
Company Name:
V2Soft Inc
Contact Number:
248 904 1705
Email Address:
Job Description:
- Manage and plan for capacity across the enterprise. Design VM farms, monitor health and performance of physical capacity based on virtual usage.
- CISCO UCS, VMware, X86 expertise
- Utilize capacity tools, develop and publish reports/metrics on capacity usage, forecasts, trends.
- Manage all key system metrics and provide ad hoc reports and dashboards.
- Monitor and provide recommendations for optimizing existing capacity.
- Manage incoming capacity demand requests.
- Designing the midrange capacity layout for server refresh and new business projects.
- Work with Managed Services provider to deliver server capacity for projects on time.
- Work with Project Manager on server enrollments and cutovers which will sometimes require attending after hour bridge calls.
- Assist Managed Services Level 3 teams with troubleshooting incidents that are related to server capacity.
- Document the costs associated to different architectural solutions for analysis and cross charges. Need to architect the solution with the best ROI for Client.
- Determine hardware requirements for new server procurement.
- Work with vendors to request hardware and services quotes.
- Meet with Datacenter Telecomm teams on a weekly basis to plan network requests, cabling requests, port allocations, etc.
- Capacity planning on existing AIX, Sun, Windows and Linux environments to maximize utilization of the current server environment.
- Review and provide recommendations on new technologies and product offerings.
- Develop Global capacity roadmap for next 2 - 3 years
Skill requirements
- Expertise in CISCO UCS blade technology, VMware, VROPS, Vcenter, X86
- Expertise in AIX, SUN, Windows, Linux and VMware technologies.
- Expertise in the following enterprize level hardware: CISCO UCS, X86 hardware, IBM midrange/large frame servers, mid-sized standalone servers
- Familiar with cloud technologies like Cisco One, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web services (AWS)
- Understanding the network stack and common knowledge of network principles (EVO rail)
- Ability to translate business capacity requirements to hardware solution
- Having a fundamental understanding of virtualized workload management
- Understanding how storage is allocated, utilized and optimized in a virtual environment
- Understanding of the utilization of virtual capacity across network, storage, and applications.
- Knowledge of hardware system management tools, capacity management tools including vRealize operations manager/VCOPS, Vsphere
- Strong communication skills.
- Strong time management skills. Will be assigned to over 100 projects at a time and needs to be able to coordinate tasks and deliverable dates.
What V2Soft Offer:
V2Soft’s compensation program offers market-competitive base pay with lot of benefits.
V2Soft offers a variety of benefits to protect your health and well-being, provide financial security and balance your work/life needs including:
- 401K Retirement Savings Plan with employer match
- Health benefits including Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
- Flexible spending plan
- Long-term and Short-term disability insurance
- Life and AD&D insurance
- Paid Holidays and Vacations
V2Soft is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).
For further information please contact Sarika Shetty (248-436-8373)
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