Virtualization Administrator

HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.
- Have you heard of JBL or Harman/Kardon, some of the world’s leading audio brands? The markets we are leading in, are fast paced, fun and dynamic._
- We make headphones, portable speakers for Consumer, also Professional audio for Stadiums and Live Concerts, and for Automotive, audio and connectivity._
- At HARMAN, you have more than a career. Our agile culture gives you the chance to rapidly develop your skills, learn quickly and find ways to create excellent results. We invite you to constantly challenge yourself, cultivate new ideas, work on something new and enhance your abilities. There are many great opportunities across all of our HARMAN divisions and locations. Like this one._

Position Summary:
You’re responsible for daily operations related to our standard virtualization platform - VMware and relevant operations and automation tools covering mainly US time zones alone with other team members, you will be part of shift plan rotated for 24x7, you react quickly join incident calls and solve the issues to minimize the impacts to productions and business, you have good knowledge on automation scripts (e.g. PowerCLI, Ansible) to automate repeatable tasks, you will be assigned to projects, PoC and initiatives based on ad-hoc topics. A proactive operation is good behavior for maintaining a IT environment in a good condition while a good attitude is good behavior to grow in your career path.

Job Responsibilities:

- Responsible of IT Operations on server infrastructure, virtualization platform globally in Harman
- Administration of HPE Oneview and Dell OpenManager for monitoring and hardware maintenance
- Administration of VMware vSphere, vSAN, VMware vRealize suite including vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Orchestrator and True Visibility suite for vRealize Operations Manager
- Responsible for Hypercoveraged infrastructure solutions in Harman (e.g VxRail, Nutanix and Hyperflex)
- Responsible for administrating disaster recovery solution for virtual machines, ensure existing DR solution Zerto running fine 24x7 and engage with Zerto support to fix issues.
- Responsible for daily operations on server infrastructure and server storage infrastructure available in all sites and cloud related.
- Responsible for resource planning and management on on-premise virtualization platforms in Harman, ensure necessary availability of hardware resources for regular growth.
- Perform proof of concept for new solutions to improve productivity of IT infrastructure related to virtualization, cloud and automation.
- Work with vendors for issues, projects and quotations.
- Documentation of Standard of Process, POC and operations.
- Anticipant weekend shift for 24x7 operation supports on server infrastructure.
- Anticipant change management meeting, incident meeting and troubleshoot with internal and external support teams.
- Work with IT compliance team for IT compliance activities and audit on the domains the team is responsible for
- Work with other IT teams and business for projects, service requests and implementation of new solutions.
- Ability to visualize project impact, understand the effects on IT and the business, and the changes that may be required.

Basic Qualifications:

- Have mínimal 5-years working experience on VMware.
- Ability to effectively communicate in English, including reading, writing and speaking.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with a diverse, globally disparate team.
- Have deeper knowledge on how-to for above virtualization technologies which could explain to different audiences at high level or deep level.
- Have experience on server hardware of different brands e.g. HPE, Dell, Cisco which can work with vendors for troubleshooting and coordinate for hardware replacement.
- Familiar with one of programing/script language for automation (PowerCLI, Python, Bash), and familiar popular automation tools e.g. Ansible, VMware vRealize Orchestrator.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure, time-sensitive environment.
- Experience with wide variety of technology hardware, software and troubleshooting.
- Capable of multi-tasking and self-dire