Virtualization & Storage Engineer at Blitt and Gaines, P.C. – St. Louis, Missouri

About Blitt and Gaines, P.C.

BG is an industry-leading debt collection law firm that has been in business for over 30 years. Our Firm has 47 attorneys and 250 support staff throughout 9 offices in the following states: Arizona, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Wisconsin. We are proud to represent most of the nation’s largest financial institutions as clients.

Summary

Designs, implements, and maintains virtualization and storage infrastructure to ensure high availability, performance, and scalability across on-premises and cloud environments.

Key responsibilities

· Architect, deploy, and manage VMware and Horizon virtualization platforms

· Design, install, and maintain storage systems (SAN, NAS, SDS) including arrays from vendors such as Dell EMC and NetApp

· Build and manage host/storage connectivity: iSCSI, FC, NFS, SMB; configure multipathing and zoning.

· Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, provisioning, and lifecycle management for compute and storage.

· Manage backup, replication, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions using Veeam and Rubrik.

· Create and maintain automation and IaC for deployments and operations (PowerShell, Python, Ansible, Terraform).

· Monitor health and capacity; troubleshoot incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.

· Maintain security hardening, patching, and compliance for virtualization and storage layers.

· Collaborate with application, network, and cloud teams to integrate platforms and support migrations to cloud or hybrid models.

· Produce runbooks, architecture diagrams, and technical documentation; provide on-call support and escalate as needed.

· Evaluate new technologies and provide recommendations for platform improvements and cost optimization.

Required qualifications

· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.

· 3+ years experience managing virtualization and enterprise storage environments.

· Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere/vCenter (design & troubleshooting).

· Experience with SAN/NAS architectures, storage provisioning, and data services.

· Strong Linux and Windows server administration skills.

· Scripting/automation experience (PowerShell, Python, Ansible, or Terraform).

· Familiarity with backup/DR solutions and storage replication technologies.

· Good understanding of networking fundamentals (VLANs, routing, TCP/IP, MTU, LACP).

Preferred qualifications

· Certifications: VCP, VMware VCAP, NetApp NCDA/NS0-xxxx, Dell EMC Proven Professional, or equivalent.

· Experience with cloud virtualization and storage (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid architectures.

· Knowledge of software-defined storage (vSAN, Ceph, Portworx) and hyperconverged infrastructure.

· Experience with observability tools and capacity forecasting.

Skills & attributes

· Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.

· Effective communication and collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

· Process-driven with attention to documentation and change control.

· Ability to work under on-call rotation and handle high-pressure incidents.

Typical metrics / KPIs

· VM uptime and availability

· Storage utilization and growth rate

· Mean time to detect/resolve incidents (MTTD/MTTR)

· Backup success rate and recovery time objectives (RPO/RTO)

· Automation coverage (percentage of repeatable tasks automated)