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You’ll be working for Beachbody, LLC. as a Senior Virtualization Engineer.

You’ll be working at their Santa Monica, CA location.

About Beachbody

Beachbody was founded in 1998 by Carl Daikeler and Jon Congdon. The company is based in Santa Monica, California, and is the creator of the nation’s most popular in-home fitness and weight loss solutions including P90X®, Insanity®, Brazil Butt Lift®, Slim in 6®, Turbo Jam®, Hip Hop Abs®, and Power 90® among many others. Beachbody programs combine challenging DVD-based workouts with easy-to-follow diet guidelines, nutritional supplements (including its breakthrough health shake called Shakeology®, AKA “The Healthiest Meal of the Day”), and an unparalleled customer service and peer-support system. In fact, Beachbody has expanded this support system through Team Beachbody.com, which includes a network of thousands of independent “Coach” distributors as well as a dynamic online support and fitness community. The company’s beauty business includes brands Timeless Secret™ and DermExclusive™. The corporate mission is to help people achieve their goals and enjoy healthy, fulfilling lives.

About the Job

The Senior Virtualization Engineer is a technical position responsible for the design, implementation and administration of all virtualization technologies. This person will be part of a team that is comprised of virtualization, security, and systems engineers. This individual will drive virtualization engineering designs, implementations, provide technical escalation, produce required documentation sets, and attend project/operational meetings. The Senior Virtualization Engineer will support the virtualization infrastructure, including VMware ESX, Xsigo, EMC SAN, and DDN Storage.

Tasks & Activities

-Provide architecture, engineering and operational support for all devices throughout the infrastructure including ESX vSphere, Xsigo Fabric, EMC SAN, and DDN products
-Design & implement logical virtualization infrastructure
-Create virtualization documentation that includes physical and logical designs, version management, and standards
-Troubleshoot and diagnose advanced virtualization issues including configuration, storage issues, and Xsigo virtualization fabric. Provide detailed root cause analysis
-Perform physical to virtual migrations
-Document and implement best practices for virtualization design, patch management, administration, upgrades, and security
-Develop methods for monitoring capacity utilization and planning for required changes
-Manage virtualization architecture and peer review all changes; make recommendations for upgrades and enhancements based on project and business demands
-Continuously implement recommendations to increase stability, reliability, and availability while reducing overall costs
-Coordinate with operations team to ensure all virtualization systems are properly monitored. Create Run Books for operations to diagnose level 1 outages
-Work with Information Security group to implement solutions from audit findings (PCI/SOX) and security best practices

Requirements

-Minimum of 4 to 8 years of Virtualization Engineering experience
-Basic knowledge of Windows 2003/2008, and Linux
-Basic knowledge of networking
-Minimum of 2 years of EMC SAN experience
-BS degree in computer information systems or equivalent experience
-Must have worked with VMWare with NFS datastores
-VMWare VDI technologies
-Backing up virtual environments
-Disaster recovery experience
-VCP4 certification

Additional Job Requirements

-Strong focus on quality of virtualization changes to ensure no impact to the business
-Must be available and willing to work extended and/or alternative hours as needed for roll-outs, system upgrades, problem remediation, etc
-Ability to work independently to meet goals and objectives with minimal supervision
-Ability to multi-task between multiple complex projects and operational requests
-Provide On-Call support during off hours
-Strong written and verbal skills
-Attention to detail and excellent troubleshooting skills.

Beachbody, LLC offers a highly competitive salary, benefits, bonus potential, and the opportunity for you to help us achieve our mission which is to help people achieve their goals and enjoy a healthy, fulfilling life. Beachbody, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

This is a fulltime position.

To apply for this position: Apply online at http://tinyurl.com/3qyu2tk

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