It's been a year and a half since I joined my current company. During this time, I've grown a lot and experienced new things. This company has given a lot to me and I can't thank them enough. That being said, I'm moving forward with my career and joining a great company at the beginning of November. I can't say who I'm joining just yet, I'll save that for another post. The real meat of this post is that I really need to fill my position and fast.
If you're in the Louisville, KY/Southern IN area and looking for a change of pace, please keep reading. The position calls for a Network Engineer, primarily VMware and Cisco skills, with concentration on Windows Administration to follow. The bulk of your job is spent doing daily administration tasks and taking the lead on infrastructure management projects. You will also be the in-house expert on all things VMware and Cisco, with a concentration on vSphere, Cisco ASA, and Cisco Layer 3 and Layer 2 technologies. 2nd level support is about 5% of your time when the level 1 people need some expertise assistance. You'll get a chance to get your hands on a NetApp FAS SAN for the virtual infrastructure, as well as Veeam for backing up all our critical data. I've done alot of the heavy lifting, so there are only 2 more P2V's until this environment is 100% virtualized. In hopes to wet your appetite a bit more, let me tell you some of the great benefits about joining this company
- You don't pay a dime for health care. You heard me right. You, your spouse, and entire family are completely covered by a great plan with an extremely small deductible. Say you usually paid $400 per month for health insurance at your current position, that's all back in your pocket, so your salary increases quite a bit.
- Vacation is unreal. Combine vacation, sick, and personal days, and it comes to around 5-6 weeks of PTO per year. Quite a bit of a bonus if you're only used to 2 weeks.
- If you plan on being a long-timer here, in addition to having a 403b (non-profit) there is a pension plan, which is unheard of. Granted, I didn't stay around long enough to get myself into the pension plan (3 years), but it's a great retirement option.
- Lastly, the environment here is completely relaxed. 95% of the time, you will only be working from 8:30-5:30. It's a stress free environment that really takes "family time" into consideration. Work is to never be viewed as #1 priority before family. Crazy I know. The only time you might work late is dealing with some hardware/infrastructure upgrades or those other P2Vs I mentioned. Of course, you will be armed with a BlackBerry, so checking email all the time is just part of our lives now.
If you're still interested, you can apply for the Network Engineer Job through CareerBuilder.com or send an email to kendrickcoleman [@] gmail [d0t] com and I'll forward it on right away. Thanks!