Virtualization Specialist (Hyper-V and VMWare)

You’ll know A1 Bulgaria is the right place for you if you are driven by:

• Opportunities to learn and build your career;
• Meaningful work in a stable and fast-paced company;
• Diversity of people, projects, and platforms;
• A supportive, fun, and inspiring place to work.

Would you like to join us?

Currently we need an Virtualization Specialist (Hyper-V andVMWare) to join our growing development team in Sofia.

Your daily routine would include:

• Collaborating with a team of experts to plan, implement, and support a robust Hyper-V and VMware strategy for over 500 server systems, ensuring continuous and efficient operations;
• Confidently clarifying complex topics during direct interactions with customers, providing them with clear, concise, and actionable information;
• Utilizing established automation tools to implement the regular patching strategy, preparing necessary reports, performing compliance checks, and ensuring all tasks are coordinated with relevant peers for efficient execution;
• Working alongside technical leads to develop and optimize operational processes in line with ITIL best practices, ensuring that all processes are aligned with both business and technical requirements;
• Leveraging my in-depth knowledge of Hyper-V and VMware to evaluate new functionalities, assess their potential impact, and determine their productive application in the existing environment;
• Ensuring operational compliance with Service Level Agreements (SLA) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI), while handling complex, cross-functional customer issues in a solution-oriented manner to maintain high standards of service delivery.

We’ll know you can make it if you have:

• Several years of experience in the ICT environment with a focus as a virtualization administrator;
• Experience with Hyper-V and VMware design, architecture, maintenance, an automation with PowerShell will be consider as an advantage;
• Recommending and instituting optimizations to the Hyper-V and VMware virtualization environment;
• Interpreting Hyper-V and VMware performance trends for capacity planning purposes;
• Microsoft Failover Clustering, including Configuration, CAU, VMware vCenter and ESXi;
• Experience with Windows Server 2022, 2019, 2016 Active Directory 2016, 2019 and 2022;
• Experience with SCVMM will be consider as an advantage;
• Superior problem solving, design, and analytical skills;
• Very good written and spoken English skills.

The following will be considered an advantage:

• Certifications regarding your skills;
• Solid understanding of Hyper-V performance analysis tools and methods;
• Hands on experience tuning Hyper-V for a data center environment;
• Expertise with VMware vSphere 7.x (P)VLANs/DVS, DNS, vCenter;
• Powershell cmdlets, block storage, file storage, experience with alternative vendors, virtualization techniques, host based backup experience, HPE Oneview/ HP Synergy hardware.

Our gratitude for the job done will be eternal, but we’ll also offer you:

• Innovative technologies and platforms to “play” with;
• Modern working environment for your comfort;
• Friendly, ambitious, and motivated teammates to support each other;
• Thousands of online and in-person learning opportunities to grow;
• Challenging assignments and career development opportunities in multinational environment;
• Attractive remuneration package;
• Flexible working schedule and opportunity for home office;
• Numerous additional goodies, including, but not limited to free A1 services, discounts, health insurance and services, sports center, childcare, team and family events, etc.

Sounds good? Apply now!