Virtualization & Storage Engineer

About Blitt and Gaines P.C.

BG is an industry-leading debt collection law firm that has been in business for over 30 years. Our Firm has 47 attorneys and 250 support staff throughout 9 offices in the following states: Arizona Arkansas Illinois Indiana Tennessee Missouri Iowa Kansas and Wisconsin. We are proud to represent most of the nations largest financial institutions as clients.

Summary

Designs implements and maintains virtualization and storage infrastructure to ensure high availability performance and scalability across on-premises and cloud environments.

Key responsibilities

Architect deploy and manage VMware and Horizon virtualization platforms

Design install and maintain storage systems (SAN NAS SDS) including arrays from vendors such as Dell EMC and NetApp

Build and manage host/storage connectivity: iSCSI FC NFS SMB; configure multipathing and zoning.

Perform capacity planning performance tuning provisioning and lifecycle management for compute and storage.

Manage backup replication disaster recovery and business continuity solutions using Veeam and Rubrik.

Create and maintain automation and IaC for deployments and operations (PowerShell Python Ansible Terraform).

Monitor health and capacity; troubleshoot incidents perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions.

Maintain security hardening patching and compliance for virtualization and storage layers.

Collaborate with application network and cloud teams to integrate platforms and support migrations to cloud or hybrid models.

Produce runbooks architecture diagrams and technical documentation; provide on-call support and escalate as needed.

Evaluate new technologies and provide recommendations for platform improvements and cost optimization.

Required qualifications

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or equivalent experience.

3 years experience managing virtualization and enterprise storage environments.

Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere/vCenter (design & troubleshooting).

Experience with SAN/NAS architectures storage provisioning and data services.

Strong Linux and Windows server administration skills.

Scripting/automation experience (PowerShell Python Ansible or Terraform).

Familiarity with backup/DR solutions and storage replication technologies.

Good understanding of networking fundamentals (VLANs routing TCP/IP MTU LACP).

Preferred qualifications

Certifications: VCP VMware VCAP NetApp NCDA/NS0-xxxx Dell EMC Proven Professional or equivalent.

Experience with cloud virtualization and storage (AWS Azure GCP) and hybrid architectures.

Knowledge of software-defined storage (vSAN Ceph Portworx) and hyperconverged infrastructure.

Experience with observability tools and capacity forecasting.

Skills & attributes

Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.

Effective communication and collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Process-driven with attention to documentation and change control.

Ability to work under on-call rotation and handle high-pressure incidents.

Typical metrics / KPIs

VM uptime and availability

Storage utilization and growth rate

Mean time to detect/resolve incidents (MTTD/MTTR)

Backup success rate and recovery time objectives (RPO/RTO)

Automation coverage (percentage of repeatable tasks automated)