Virtualization System Engineer Consultant

As our Virtualization System Engineer, your main tasks will include:

• Ensuring level 2 and level 3 support for virtualization and backup platforms.
• Design, manage, and maintain Nutanix (AHV) and VMware environments.
• Implement and maintain high-availability and clustering solutions.
• Document operational procedures for 1st and 2nd level support.
• Designing, implementing, and operating enterprise backup solutions for virtual servers.
• Definition and enforcement of backup SLAs, RPO, and RTO.
• Configuration of backup policies, retention, restore, and reporting.
• Management of archiving and long-term retention of virtual workloads.
• Automating provisioning and operational tasks related to virtualization and backup.
• Automation of virtual server deployments.
• Scripting for backup, restore, monitoring, and maintenance activities.
• Setting up and maintaining high availability platforms (clusters) and backup processes.
• Proactive monitoring and optimization of performance, capacity, and storage usage.
• Collaborating on Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP).
• Definition and testing of restore and disaster recovery scenarios.
• Participation in DR tests and continuous improvement of recovery procedures.
• Following up on incidents and communicating clearly in case of SLA breach to customers.

Expectations:

We will also expect you to:

• Maintain an excellent level of personal expertise, keeping constantly informed of the latest updates in relevant technologies and share knowledge with colleagues.
• Contribute to global Continuity and security platform and to that intent liaise with specialists from your own department or from other teams.
• Contribute to internal team meetings.
• Liaise & collaborate with other team members & ensure efficient hand-over of information & work, as appropriate., * Consultancy Nature: Focus on on-site work and embodying the consultant identity.
• Dynamic Projects: Engage with diverse challenges across various client environments.
• Turbo-Charged Learning: Benefit from professional development and broad learning experiences.
• Skyrocketing Ambition: Enjoy a commitment to career growth within our framework.
• Values: Being a “K-Stone” means bringing core values to every engagement.

If you are ready to tackle technical and strategic challenges in a dynamic consultancy environment, apply today .

Minimum 7 years of experience as a Virtualization System Engineer, of which 2 in a senior position with effective end responsibility for technical aspects. Fluent in Dutch/French (a passive knowledge of one of both national languages is a must) and English. IT/technical knowledge includes:

• Strong expertise in virtualization platforms, preferably Nutanix AHV and VMware vSphere.
• Strong expertise in backup and data protection solutions, including SLA management and archiving.
• Good knowledge of SAN and storage technologies.
• Solid understanding of Windows Server environments in virtualized infrastructures.
• Good understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, etc.).
• Good knowledge of server hardware and virtual infrastructure components.
• Experience with monitoring and reporting tools in an enterprise environment.
• Analytic minded, open to new solutions and technologies.
• Ability to prioritize various requests, ranking the importance vs the urgency, while keeping the Customer’s interest as a priority.
• Team player at ease with sharing knowledge and best practices with colleagues.