Senior virtualisation engineer
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Job description
The Senior Virtualisation Engineer provides robust, high availability compute and storage virtualised infrastructure that supports Liberty Caribbean's (LC) compute and storage requirements, allowing for business automation efficiencies and improved services and products for customers. The Senior Virtualisation Engineer is responsible for the design and implementation of VMware virtualisation products and systems that support virtualisation, including all server ESXi hardware, networking, and hypervisor layers. The Senior Virtualisation Engineer works with other engineering teams and engages with experts across all technology competencies (applications deployment, data management, IT business continuity management, and Enterprise Networks) to provide solutions to Liberty Caribbean (LC) customers.
What You'll Do
- Architect, design, install, configure, monitor, and maintain VMware vSphere/vSAN cluster environments.
- Architect, design, install, configure, monitor, and maintain all ESXi host hardware and provide corrective actions to hardware faults.
- Perform planned maintenance activities/firmware upgrades on an established cycle that mitigates Liberty Caribbean (LC) business risks and vulnerabilities.
- Manage and expand compute and storage capacity requirements to support services to Liberty Caribbean, LC customers
- Participates in solutions development in all stages, including planning, design, development, testing, and documentation.
- Responsible for provisioning, maintaining, managing, and monitoring IBM /Cisco /HPE infrastructure.
- Support the deployment of virtual machines (VMs) and templates across the VMware clusters.
- Support the implementation of hardware support contracts required to ensure availability of infrastructure.
- Ensure support for all Liberty Caribbean, LC Information Security and IT Compliance controls and policies Knowledge & Experience
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems (or equivalent qualification).
- Relevant training and certification as VMware Certified Professional (VMware HyperConverged Infrastructure (vSAN) and VMware Data Center Virtualization) and Networking
- Minimum of 3 years of practical experience maintaining a VMware vSphere /vSAN cluster environment.
- Experience with SAN, NAS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel protocol and other storage allocations to ESXi clusters and troubleshooting VMDK in virtual machines
- Experience with Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V), and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P).
- Experience in troubleshooting hardware and operating system-related issues.
- Experience with Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS).