Senior ESX System Engineer

Basel  ‐ Onsite
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Description

About us:
ITech Consult AG is a certified ISO Swiss company with offices also located in Germany, Great Britain and Ireland. ITech Consult is specialised in delivering ICT candidates for contract work. We were founded in 1997 by IT professionals; hence we well understand what it means to be professionally supported in your search for a new project and being employed.

Reference No: 915855NC
Role: Senior ESX System Engineer
Industry: Pharmaceutical
Location: Basel Region, Switzerland
Workload: 100%
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: Till 31.12.2016

Role Purpose:
Design, build, configure and administer our client IT Virtual Infrastructure.

Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Support and administer VMware ESX server infrastructure including VMware Virtual Center and peripheral virtualization technologies in patching, backup, disaster recovery, and replication.
- Provide design, configuration and planning support for our client virtual infrastructure.
- Execute change management and provide support for scheduled, planned maintenance.
- Implementation and post-installation responsibilities include technical consulting to end-user community and other infrastructure team.
- Providing virtualization technology solutions to existing problems.
- Support our client virtual environment through issue troubleshooting and migration to future software versions.
- Provide technical expertise for the planning and definition of new system requirements: perform feasibility and performance studies, including benchmark, capacity planning, sizing, etc.
- Support and improve system environment and services (i.e. capacity planning and automation)
- Write all related documentation (validation docs, systems proposals/recommendation, etc)
- Participate in and leverage virtualization expertise to create a new company cloud management model utilizing new and existing automation tools.
- Participate in data center efficiency improvements using virtualization technologies (P2V and VM density improvement)
- Participate in researching and testing next generation technologies such as HP Flex technology, and additional hypervisor.
- Assist in expanding NIBR virtualization to global model and external cloud solution.

Qualifications:
- VMware Certified Advanced Professional 4 or 5 - Data Center Administration (VCAP5-DCA or VCAP4-DCA)
- 7 years of experience in Windows and/or Linux system administration in a global enterprise environment.
- 5 years of experience of VMWare ESX management.
- 2 years with hybrid cloud expertise ( AWS or other public cloud )
- PowerShell Scripting with PowerCLI
- Fluent in English
Start date
07/2016
Duration
Till 31.12.2016
From
ITech Consult AG
Published at
21.06.2016
Project ID:
1151953
Contract type
Freelance
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