Lead Systems Engineer

Company: Altice Technical Services
Location: Plano
Posted on: November 25, 2022

Job Description:

Requisition Post Information* : Posted Date 2 months ago (7/2/2022 1:00 PM) Requisition ID 2022-33377 Area of Interest Engineering Business Unit Business to Consumer Position Type Full-Time Job Family Engineering Job Function Systems Engineering Job Location : Address 5830 Granite Parkway Job Location : Location US-TX-Plano Job Location : Postal Code 75024 Job Title Lead Systems Engineer Overview We are Altice USA; a family of businesses that includes Optimum, Optimum Mobile, Optimum Business, A4 advertising, Cheddar, and News12. Our common goal is connecting our customers to friends and family, shows they love, advertising that resonates and news that matters. We're building a workforce that thrives on collaboration, inclusion, and innovation. We hope connecting you to a potential role is just the beginning. Responsibilities We are looking for a Lead Engineer with extensive knowledge and experience in designing and deploying VMware Sphere / ESXi / VMware Horizon Environments and Windows Server / Desktops and VMware related products, Linux and other open systems are a plus.This person will play a key role in the implementation of processes, procedures, policies, and standards for all VDI Environments on-premises and cloud. The candidate should possess knowledge of VMware virtualization products, Windows Server, and Linux OS-related products.Take and manage ownership of our business partner's work priorities to ensure we are meeting expectationsCreate technical solution designs for VDI-related projects, including ensuring any designs meet Altice USA Security guidelines. Deep understanding of VDI security requirements, including keeping abreast of security vulnerabilities and ensuring all VDI systems meet Altice USA Security team guidelinesSkilled in assessing server hardware and software requirements related to various application, and vendor needs and driving automation for highly repeatable tasks as well as troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues related to performance and functionality.Understanding of technical documentation process to create best practice documentation as well as architectural design.Daily interaction with management to provide recommendations for new technologies, improved service availability, and system management. Designated Level 3 engineering, will also provide advanced support and implement break-fix solutions to technical issues within the Altice USA Infrastructure environments and Partner environments Duties and Responsibilities:

• As lead engineer responsible for Design, Deploy, automate, and maintain Altice USA VDI solutions using VMware Horizon and cloud-centric technologies such as AWS workstations, Azure WVD and hybrid/on-prem solutions.
• Ensure work prioritization for both Altice USA VDI engineering and operation support resources for day-to-day operations and long-term goal
• Collaborate with Enterprise Security to understand and implement security standards to our VDI environment, ensuring compliance with monthly patching goals for all VDI instances across Altice USA.
• Optimize and automate solutions for management and deployment of VDI applications, operating systems, updates, and configuration changes.
• Identifies and recommends tools and technologies using best practices/industry standards to support the strategic direction and to assist in deploying to business requirements.
• Work with product vendors and evaluate new products, perform evaluations of new technologies, and deploy/demo proof of concepts to Executives
• Overseeing current environment and future build-out from the group up and ensuring that system implementations conform to established company security standards and/or industry best practices.
• Serves as project manager for small to medium projects sponsored by the Information Security department.
• Participates in the budget process and procurement process for the new projects and future expansions.
• Provides information security consulting services to business units and other departments and performs security assessments of proposed, new, and existing systems.
• Develops and maintains minimum security baseline configuration for various appliances, and server operating systems.
• Develops documentation including architectural, operational, runbooks, and problem resolution.Qualifications Qualifications:
  
  • Experiencewithenterprise-level virtualization, designing,implamentationandmaintainingVMwareESXiservers/clustersand VSAN environments.
  • Experience Deploying and managing the VDI instant Desktops pools and managing the golden images.
  • Upgrading VMware horizon components and related products without impacting user experience.
  • Experience with publishing applications with RDS pools and app volumes.
  • Experience with profile management using, DEM and FSlogix and mandatory profile for non-persistent pools.
  • Application packaging with app volumes and working with SCCM configuration manager.
  • Experiencetroubleshootingsystemlevelproblemsincludingserverfailureandoptimizing the golden images.
  • KnowledgeofnetworkingintegrationintoVMwareESXiandhands-ontroubleshootingcommonproblems with VMware networking
  • StrongknowledgeofMSWindowsServer2016, 2019 and Windows10Operating
  • MicrosoftPowerShellscripting and working REST API for the executive reporting.
  • StrongknowledgeofActiveDirectory,DNS,DHCP,GroupPolicy,LDAP,SMTP,andTCP/IPnetworking.
  • ExperiencewithCiscoUCS, DELL PowerEdge hardware, and DELL Open manage essentials.
    Altice USA is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to recruiting, hiring and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds regardless of gender, race, color, creed, national origin, religion, age, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.Altice USA, Inc. collects personal information about its applicants for employment that may include personal identifiers, professional or employment related information, photos, education information and/or protected classifications under federal and state law. This information is collected for employment purposes, including identification, work authorization, FCRA-compliant background screening, human resource administration and compliance with federal, state and local law. #LI-LP1 Applicants for employment with Altice will never be asked to provide money (even if reimbursable) as part of the job application or hiring process. Please review our Fraud FAQ for further details. Sorry the Share function is not working properly at this moment. Please refresh the page and try again later.

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