Director Cloud Computing & Virtualization

This position will oversee the Cloud Computing and Virtualization practice for Ascent Data. Individual will provide “thought leadership” and be actively involved in the on-going strategic development of Ascent Data’s Cloud Computing/hosting services. This position will also include:

• Supporting the pre-sales engineering process
• Lead in the design and "hands-on" implementation and support of the Virtual Cloud environment
• Review and recommend server & software for corporate and customer applications.
• Field, review and resolve customer troubles
• Provide system performance and tuning as well as root cause determination in the event of failures
• Produce and present documentation, training and standard operating procedures for both internal and customer use

Qualifications:

Required

2-4+ years VMware ESX Enterprise administration, in a fully redundant environment utilizing SAN storage backend.

3-5+ years Windows systems & domain administration with Windows 2003 or later. Experience administering an Active Directory environment, with extensive knowledge of group policy.

-OR-

3-5+ years LINUX/UNIX systems administration with one of the following OSes: LINUX, SOLARIS, HPUX, AIX. Experience administering multiple systems in an LDAP environment, with extensive knowledge of the fundamentals of the UNIX operating system (CRON, PAM, File Systems, etc).

In Addition:

• Strong understanding of Internet/IP related technologies, including, but not limited to, DNS, SMTP, HTTP/S, IP subnetting
• Experience with Intel based servers & Fiberchannel/ iSCSI/SAS storage arrays. Understanding of concepts such as RAID
• Have a working knowledge of networking technologies such as TCP/UDP port requirements, 802.1Q network trunking and routing
• Ability to prioritize and be productive in high-pressure situations, providing timely status updates to customers, the OSC, and/or project management
• Strong trouble-shooting ability. Ability to identify and resolve problems in "down" situations
• VMWare and related technology administration with a focus on high availability and scalability of architectures.
• Administration of the multiple Windows 2003/8 domains that includes, but is not limited to, Active Directory, IIS, Exchange 2003/7 and infrastructure monitoring

Preferred
B.S. in a technical discipline.
SAN administration experience
Network administration experience (layer-2 switching and firewalling)
Backup and backup related technology experience, with EMC Avamar, DataDomain being preferred.
Experience with database technologies such as MS SQL, MySQL or Oracle

EOE