VMWare Virtualisation Engineer

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VMWare Virtualisation Engineer

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RFQ C001156 Hosting Engineer Requirements Description:

Under the direction of the Service Delivery Manager, Hosting Service (Infrastructure Services), but largely on own initiative, will perform duties such as the following:

• Full life cycle server infrastructure: architecture , design, administration, implementation and support including CPU, memory, disk utilizations/capacity planning and adjusting new requirements as well as monitor and audit system utilization, and performance with focus on VMware virtualization
• Leads enterprise base work initiatives and projects
• Develops enhanced production monitoring and additional capability
• Defines improvements increased system reliability and performance
• Acts as the technical liaison between operations teams, engineers and architects, providing critical operational insight to upcoming implementations and strategies, including validation of ongoing solutions supportability
• Participates in short- and long term planning efforts with stakeholders and IT groups
• Develops cost/time estimates
• Documents discussion and agreements
• Works with project managers to coordinate and plan project tasks and resources
• Participates in business requirements meetings as needed
• Communicates events to stakeholders, IT teams, and leadership
• Produces work related documentation and diagrams ensuring that they are maintained periodically within their life cycle
• Provides technical guidance, coaching/mentoring to team members
• Participate/perform in root cause analysis for significant problems and suggests clear recommendations for improvements
• Coordinates problem resolution among a variety of functional areas and provides subject matter expertise support for diagnosing and resolving problems
• Develops scripted solutions and automation
• Coordinates changes across multiple systems. Schedule, coordinate and lead planned downtimes
• Accurately update comments and status to tickets via ticketing system
• Participate in on-call activities
• May need to travel to other NCIA units in other countries, work in
  shifts, service-affecting activities and contingency work outside of
  regular business hours

Requirements Description:

• Professional experience in a production environment for a number of years with VMware NSX 6.3 and newer, VMware vRealize Automation & vRealize Orchestrator 8 and newer and Solarwinds IPAM solution
• Professional experience with VMware vROPS 8.1 and its integration with VMware vRA
• Hands-on experience with data center management including virtualization using VMWare ESXi, blade & rack mount servers
• Good understanding of Active Directory, Windows Server and Linux and SAN and iSCSI storage
• Able to document current design & configuration and to develop/maintain Standard Operation Procedures/Instructions and training guidance
• Prior Systems Engineering Experience is Required
• ITIL Service Operation knowledge
• Excellent interpersonal and communication and skills
• Fluent English in both spoken and written

Desirables:

• Detailed knowledge of the MARCOM infrastructure design and service operations
• VMware lifecycle manager experience (highly desirable)
• Windows SCCM installation experience (highly desirable)
• Master Degree in Engineering or Computer Science and 4 years experience; or Bachelor Degree in Engineering or Computer Science and 6 years experience; or Major Certification (VMware VCAP) and 7 year experience; or no
  degree/certification and 11 years experience
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP Deploy or Design)
• Strong Experience with Powershell/PowerCLI
• VMware SRM
• Professional experience with VMware Horizon (linked and instant clones)
• Experience on vSphere Replication, VMware VUM, Powershell/PowerCLI, VMWare vSAN, VMware Log Insight and DevOps
• Experience with configuration management tools (eg: Ansible)
• Automation scripting experience (Python, etc. ) and control version (eg: git)
• BMC/ITSM Ticketing system and integration with vRealize Suite
• ITIL certification

Location

Mons

Start date

22/02/2021

Contract length

418 hours with extensions

Bid closes

25/01/2021

Max hourly rate (€)

Lowest Price Technically Compliant (LPTC)

Remarks

No remarks

Security clearance

A security clearance is required