Automation (VMware) Engineer III-ascena

Brand Overview:

ascena retail group, inc. is a leading national specialty retailer offering apparel, shoes, and accessories for women under the Premium Fashion segment (Ann Taylor, LOFT, and Lou & Grey), Value Fashion segment (maurices and dressbarn), Plus Fashion segment (Lane Bryant and Catherines), and for tween girls under the Kids Fashion segment (Justice). ascena retail group, inc. operates ecommerce websites and approximately 4,800 stores throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.Ready to ? We currently have an opportunity for a Automation (VMware) Engineer III-ascena to join our team located at our Ascena Corp ETNA-ascena-Pataskala, OH 43062.

Position Overview:

General Description

Charged with running various virtualization technologies, focusing on automation across the service lifecycle. Drives and builds automation of infrastructure and applications. Responsible for setting overall architectural direction of cloud infrastructure.

Works directly with Infrastructure and Application teams to bring awareness and thought leadership around continuous delivery, continuous integration and Infrastructure technologies.

Works on Infrastructure initiatives, architecting technology solutions to meet the business needs of Ascena shared services group. In parallel analyzing and monitoring daily operations of the Infrastructure, identifying and remediating risks and issues.

DutieS

- Automates and Orchestrates infrastructure builds, deployments and maintenance associated

- Works with developers and other teams to configure, integrate and automate infrastructure, enhancing the automation pipeline

- Builds services, service dashboards and self-service deployments

- Writes maintainable and extensible code to build and manage infrastructure

- Applies enterprise standards and IT governance standards to infrastructure

- Executes configuration management, technical vendor management, problem mitigation, change management, and critical situation management to Infrastructure and applications.

- Performs configuration/capacity planning, systems performance analysis and optimizations for infrastructure

- Plans and conducts product evaluations; develops and recommends technical strategies and solutions to management. Conducts assessments of risk, cost, and return on investment scenarios and impact as well as potential compatibility issues with existing Infrastructure stack.

Work Experience and education requirements -New

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and or 5-7 years’ experience in IT Infrastructure

• In-depth knowledge of VMware automation and orchestration toolsets ( vRealize Suite - vRA, vRO, vROPS and vRB)

• Must understand interrelationships between systems, applications, various functional teams and their build processes

• Experience working with configuration management tools such as puppet, chef and upguard

• Experience with programming/scripting languages such as powershell, bash, java, perl

• Working knowledge of application development tools such as Jenkins, Git, JIRA and Bamboo

• Working knowledge of container technologies such as Docker, Vagrant, Bluedata and Shippable

• Experience working with various operating systems including Windows and Linux

• Knowledge of application packaging solutions such as RPM, MSI, dpkg, or NuGet/Chocolatey

• Managed vSphere environments over 70 hosts and 2000 guests, across multiple datacenters
  • Experience with network and storage virtualization technologies a plus.

• Experience using capacity planning and resource management software

• Large scale project experience

• Proof of concept evaluations

• Self-motivated with excellent time management and organization
  skills

• Master in interpreting business needs and design efficient and scalable solutions to meet those needs

• Ability to take on complex, escalated questions or problems and troubleshoot to resolution

• Ability to be on call 24x7 and have a flexible work schedule

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Location:

Ascena Corp ETNA-ascena-Pataskala, OH 43062

Position Type:

Regular/Full time

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Company is committed to hiring and developing the most qualified people at all levels. It is our policy in all employment decisions to ensure that all associates and potential associates are evaluated on the basis of qualifications and ability without regard to sex (including pregnancy), race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability that can reasonably be accommodated without undue hardship, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected classification under applicable law. We do not discriminate in any of our employment policies and practices. All associates are expected to follow these principles in all relationships with other associates, applicants, or others with whom we do business.

The Company welcomes applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the application process.

Note to Applicants: Smoking is prohibited in all indoor areas of the Company unless designated smoking areas have been established by a particular location in accordance with applicable law.