About Cognizant
Role Summary
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain enterprise virtualization platforms with a primary focus on Nutanix and Microsoft Hyper‑V.
- Administer and operate virtualization clusters, including upgrades, health checks, capacity monitoring, and lifecycle planning.
- Own virtualization storage operations, including performance troubleshooting, capacity optimization, and data protection integration.
- Define and enforce virtualization standards related to host builds, virtual machine templates, naming conventions, and resource sizing.
- Plan and execute platform upgrades, maintenance, and expansions through formal change management processes.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across compute, storage, and virtualization networking components.
- Partner with network and security teams to ensure proper segmentation and secure access to virtualization infrastructure.
- Implement and maintain monitoring and alerting for virtualization performance, health, and capacity.
- Support disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities, including replication and recovery testing.
- Automate repeatable tasks using scripting and infrastructure tooling.
- Provide escalation support, root cause analysis, documentation, and operational runbooks.
- Participate in after‑hours support for critical incidents as required.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years of experience as a systems administrator or systems engineer.
- Strong hands‑on experience administering enterprise virtualization platforms.
- Knowledge of storage technologies, performance troubleshooting, and capacity planning.
- Understanding of virtualization networking concepts, including VLANs and host networking.
- Experience supporting backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions.
- Proficiency with scripting and automation, with PowerShell preferred.
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
- Familiarity with secure configuration practices and supporting compliance‑driven environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with hyperconverged infrastructure platforms.
- Experience producing operational standards, diagrams, and runbooks.
- Familiarity with IT service design and infrastructure best practices.
Work Model
We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in our office in Blue Ash, Ohio. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.
The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.
We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.
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关于高知特 (Cognizant)
高知特(Cognizant)（纳斯达克代码：CTSH）作为一家AI Builder和相关技术服务提供商，致力于通过打造全栈AI解决方案，帮助企业将人工智能投资转化为实际价值。公司凭借深厚的行业经验、流程优化和工程技术专长，将企业独特的业务场景融入科技系统，赋能组织释放人才潜能，推动切实成果，并帮助全球企业在瞬息万变的环境中保持领先。如需了解更多详情，敬请访问 cognizant.ai 或关注@cognizant。
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申请人可能需要通过现场面试或视频会议的方式参加面试。此外，候选人在每次面试时可能需要出示其当前所在州或政府签发的有效身份证件。
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