iland is looking for an experienced Cloud Deployment Engineer to help facilitate Disaster Recovery, Backup, and Infrastructure as a Service customer implementations into iland’s state-of-the-art global cloud infrastructure. This ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience working with VMware. This is a full-time position reporting to the Manager of Cloud Services.
This is a phenomenal opportunity for technically-capable individuals to take their careers to the next level with the latest in cloud infrastructure technologies. Through extensive hands-on training, iland provides a fast-track career path for talented individuals in the fields of virtualization, networking, and systems administration.
This position influences all aspects of a customer cloud deployment, including virtual machines, networking, and backup/replication technologies. At iland, we focus on the customer success, so working hand-in-hand with the deployment team and applying your technical knowledge is key. iland is a recognized leader in the DRaaS space, so we are looking for motivated, technically oriented people to join our team.
Responsibilities
- Primarily responsible for technical customer deployment activities
- Work with numerous customer environment types to ensure a smooth testing and onboarding experience
- Provide technical ownership and accountability of all responsibilities assigned during customer implementation projects
- Work with project managers to complete assigned tasks
- Complete deployment projects using iland best practices
- Communicate effectively with customers, sales team, and project team
- Document steps taken, problems incurred, and resolution of issues for customer review
- Foster communication and transparency through all iland teams and staff involved in the sale and delivery of projects
REQUIREMENTS
Required Skills
The following skills represent the minimum requirements to be considered for this position:
o Bachelor’s degree in technical discipline
o 5+ years recent experience as a technical, hands-on, enterprise VMware administrator
o Enterprise customer-facing technical support experience
o Hands-on knowledge of disaster recovery and backup solutions
o Experience working with global data center environments
o Proven ability to troubleshoot advanced customer issues
o Good understanding of how different technologies work together
o Excellent communicator, high energy, positive attitude, aptitude for professional growth
Preferred Skills
The following skills represent additional proficiencies preferred to be successful in this position:
o VMware VCA/VCP/VCAP certified
o Cisco UCS experience
o Zerto, Veeam, or DoubleTake experience
o Microsoft server administrative experience (Server, SQL, etc.)
o Technical experience with Cisco ASA and industry standard firewalls
BENEFITS
o Competitive Salary
o Bonus Plan
o 401k Plan
o Stock Plan
o PPO Healthcare Insurance Plan
o Dental Insurance Plan
o Long-Term Disability Insurance
o Paid Vacation & Holidays
o Training Budget
o Cell Phone Allowance
o Laptop
About iland
iland has been in business for over 20 years, and is an industry leader in the areas of Secure Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), Secure Cloud Backup (BaaS), and Secure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). iland differentiates itself and maintains its market leadership by investing heavily in its proprietary Cloud Console, which is an orchestration tool for its cloud services offered in the US, UK and Singapore. The result of this investment is a rapid development cycle with up to four product releases per year. We provide an exciting, fast-paced environment that has been recognized by these industry leaders and more:
- Gartner Magic Quadrant Disaster Recovery as a Service Leader: 2016-2018
- Zerto Service Provider of the Year: 2016 & 2017
- Veeam Service Provider of the Year: 2016 &2017
- The Forrester Wave Top DR-as-a-Service Providers: Q1 2014
- Houston Business Journal #1 Best Place to Work: 2012 & 2013
- Nine Lives Media Inc. Talkin’ Cloud 100: 2011, 2012 & 2013
- Houston Business Journal Houston Fast 100: 2012 & 2013
- Cisco Cloud Managed Service Provider (Cisco Powered)
- VMware Global Service Provider Partner (VSPP) of the Year: 2010-2012
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