Windows Engineering and Virtualization Manager

Responsibilities

• Daily management of IT personnel, team member PTO requests, performance reviews, and fostering of teamwork and cohesion.
• The proper management of departmental resources to facilitate internal and business project needs.
• Keeps an open line of communication to report daily and/or weekly to upper management on the status of the team’s projects/tasks, and/or any system break/fix issues that may have occurred.
• Ensure operational uptime of corporate and production systems essential to Allegiant and its customers.
• This includes the architecture, oversight, responsibility, and capacity planning of all physical and virtual compute resources that are relied upon by DEV, Dev Ops, DBA, Linux Systems, and Corporate users.
• Stay current with technology, and research new technologies that might benefit Allegiant in the near future.
• Close interaction with the department head and third-party vendors to prepare for the annual budget schedule.
• Managing third-party relations and ensuring vendors properly execute the agreed terms and conditions.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field (Computer Science, Information Technology) or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in an IT management position.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of experience in Windows, VMware, Cisco UCS, and SAN systems design and implementation in large enterprise environments.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Excellent technical problem-solving skills.
• Excellent customer support skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Proven oral and written communications skills.
• Able to prioritize, address, and follow through on multiple tasks in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Available to be on-call for emergencies; able to work weekends if needed.
• Extensive knowledge of systems engineering concepts.
• Extensive experience deploying, and maintaining virtual infrastructure running VMware ESXi 5.x/6.x on Cisco UCS hardware.
• Technical knowledge of VMware virtualization technologies (vCenter, vSphere, ESXi, DRS, vMotion, HA, FT, SRM, vROPs, vShield)
• Experience with vCloud Suite, vRealize Operations Manager.
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Failover Cluster Services, MS SQL, SharePoint, etc.
• Experience with Net Backup, and various enterprise backup strategies.
• In-depth knowledge of network protocols, such as IP, ARP, TCP, UDP, DHCP, DNS, FTP, NTP, SNMP, etc.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to work effectively and take lead in a tight-knit team environment.
• Able to maintain meticulous documentation and procedures.