Vmware Engineer - IV (Professional Services Delivery Engineer - IV)

1 Month ago • 8 Years +

Software Development & Engineering

Job Description

Rackspace is seeking a Professional Services Delivery Engineer IV to provide Private Cloud Engineering consulting to Enterprise and SME clients. The role requires strong, hands-on technical skills and consulting expertise to understand, shape, and deliver customer requirements. The ideal candidate will have experience working on complex projects from inception to delivery, focusing on automated, secure, and robust private cloud infrastructure solutions. This role involves designing, automating, and deploying services for VMware Cloud customers, applying DevOps techniques across various industries.

Must Have:

Deliver Private Cloud Engineering consulting services to clients.
Possess strong, hands-on technical skills.
Understand, shape, and deliver against customer requirements.
Work on complex projects from inception to delivery.
Deliver automated, secure, and robust private cloud infrastructure solutions.
Engage in technical discussions from architecture to hands-on coding.
Design, automate, and deploy services for VMware Cloud customers.
Work with customer engineering teams on VMware projects (migration, automation, containerization, transformation).
Write infrastructure as code (vRealize Automation).
Troubleshoot and set up VMware environments.
Configure and maintain storage, backup, monitoring, and alerting systems.
Administer Linux/Windows systems, automated deployments, and scripting (Bash/PowerShell/Python).
Complete technical documentation.
Deliver quality work in an agile team environment.

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JOB DESCRIPTION :

We are seeking a Professional Services Delivery Engineer IV to deliver Private Cloud Engineering consulting services into Rackspace’s Enterprise and SME clients.
The ideal candidate will have strong, hands on technical skills, with the experience and consulting skills to understand, shape and deliver against our customers’ requirements.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

You’ll be a strong technical expert, with experience working complex projects from inception to delivery. You’ll have experience working in an engineering role, working to deliver automated, secure and robust private cloud infrastructure solutions.

You’re happy to get involved in all levels of technical discussions, from architecture to hands on coding. A good grounding in infrastructure technology is highly advantageous, as is a programming background.

You will be part of a team designing, automating, and deploying services on behalf of our VMWare Cloud customers. We have deep experience applying DevOps techniques in virtually every industry. Every week is different and the problems you will be challenged to solve are constantly evolving.

Role Responsibilities:

Working with our customer engineering teams on a wide variety of VMware projects (migration, automation, containerization, transformation)
Writing infrastructure as code (vRealize Automation)
VMware environment troubleshooting and setup
Meeting customer SLAs and managing communication in case of issues
Configuring and maintaining storage and backup, monitoring, and alerting systems for multiple clients Interacting with teams and customers in different time zones for ensuring 24×7 support, Linux/Windows administration, automated deployments, scripting (Bash/PowerShell/Python)
Participating in work sessions with clients and internal teams in order to transform their applications.
Completing technical documentation
Delivering quality work in agile delivery model in a team environment

Skills & Experience

Strong Managed Private Cloud knowledge including:
Cloud native approaches (serverless, cloud integration, modern application architecture, security, SRE)
Strong Networking background
PaaS, IaaS, best use cases, limitations etc.
Key Managed Cloud IaaS components – Compute, Networking, AVS, DNS, Storage, Traffic Management, API Gateways, observability.
Experience with DevOps Methodologies and CI/CD tool-chains.
8+ years experience in a development or infrastructure operations team for critical IT infrastructure - including:
High-availability, high-performance technologies inc Rackspace Products (SDDC, RPC-V)
VMWARE Technologies
Microsoft Windows or Linux System administration experience (MCSE preferable)
Storage and backup knowledge
Databases and caching layers