Job Posting:

Ferguson is North America’s leading value-added distributor across residential, non-residential, new construction and repair, maintenance, and improvement (RMI) end markets. Spanning 34,000 suppliers and more than one million customers, we deliver local expertise, value-added solutions, and the industry’s most extensive portfolio of products. From infrastructure, plumbing, and appliances, to HVAC, fire protection, fabrication, and more, we make our customers’ complex projects simple, successful, and sustainable.

We have an exciting opportunity for a remote Sr. Virtualization Engineer - VMware to join our IT Cloud Powered Services team, within the Ferguson IT organization.

**This role is approved to sit 100% remote. If local to the Newport News, VA area, you will have the option for in-office work out of our HQ3 facility.**

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain and optimize our VMWare environment
• Maintain and optimizing our compute infrastructure
• Provides design recommendations based on long term IT organization strategy to include adherence to enterprise architecture (EA) strategies and principles as well as to defined technology standards
• Identifies, evaluates, and recommends opportunities for automation
• Follows technical design documents and assists with ensuring the environment is properly maintained
• Contributes and runs test plans for production releases and performs post-release validation
• Participates in business discussions, solution architectures, and customer-related activities when required
• Analyzes the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
• Work with other Ferguson IT groups to resolve issues
• Able to follow and adhere to change management procedures

Required Qualifications:

• Expertise running Vmware 6.x and 7.x in large environments
• Specific knowledge in SRM configuration, vSphere networking, and vROPS
• Expertise with HPE compute infrastructure, specifically Gen10 servers and C7000 enclosures
• Proficiency with HPE OneView and deploying SPPs
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and to analyze and interpret data to yield potential solutions to business issues
• Knowledge of operating system fundamentals and how operating systems work
• Specific knowledge in Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems
• Knowledge of Data Center network design, security, and operations
• Ability to work closely with the architectural team to provide design recommendations and establish patterns for implementing new solutions
• 6 years of experience in administration and operations in large scale enterprise services

Desired Qualifications

• Problem solving - someone who isn't afraid to research an issue on their own and get to the bottom of it
• Creativity / curiosity to go hand in hand with problem solving
• Adaptability - works well in an environment that has ever-changing priorities
• Attitude - someone who is willing to roll with the punches and maintain a positive attitude
• Provides technical guidance for joining new environments to our existing solutions
• Validates technical recovery procedures
• Provides technical leadership in tracking down and resolving complex operational issues
• Adheres to all policies, rules, regulations, and procedures
• Minimum of 5-7 years of VMware and compute administration

Ferguson is dedicated to providing meaningful benefits programs and products to our associates and their families—geared toward benefits, wellness, financial protection, and retirement savings. Ferguson offers a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, retirement savings with company match, paid leave (vacation, sick, personal, holiday, and parental), employee assistance programs, associate discounts, community involvement opportunities, and much more!

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Pay Range:

Actual pay rate may vary depending upon location. The estimated pay range for this position is below. The specific rate will depend on a candidate’s qualifications and prior experience.

Estimated Ranges displayed are Monthly for Salaried roles OR Hourly for all other roles.

This role is Bonus or Incentive Plan eligible.

The Company is an equal opportunity employer as well as a government contractor that shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-300.5(a), which prohibits discrimination against qualified protected Veterans and the requirements of 41 CFR 60-741.5(A), which prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals on the basis of disability.

Ferguson Enterprises, LLC. is an equal employment employer F/M/Disability/Vet/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.

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