Description
Virtualisation SME
Inside IR35
Our client, a leading banking organisation have an opportunity for a contract Virtualisation SME/Site Reliability Engineer to join their team up until April 2022 initially. You will be responsible for the reliability and efficiency of virtualisation infrastructure through the delivery of common, repeatable tools and processes that greatly reduce the amount of toil the OS and DB Platform Operations team must perform.
Role responsibilities:
- Responsible for writing software to make the virtualisation infrastructure self-managing and self-service.
- Responsible for automation and continuous service improvement by developing Infrastructure as Code.
- Responsible for elimination of manual, repetitive, automatable, tactical tasks that are devoid from value.
- Responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring and capacity planning.
- Responsible for improving system performance, making effective use of resources, distributing load and reducing latency.
- Responsible for identifying SLO's (Service Level Objectives) that align the team to meet availability and latency objectives.
- Responsible for developing pro-active monitoring solutions that alert on symptoms and not just on outages.
Skills required:
- Excellent knowledge of ESX VMWare and/or Nutanix HCI.
- Excellent knowledge of Windows Server .
- Excellent knowledge of Windows OS tuning utilities and commands.
- Excellent knowledge of configuring Windows OS systems for optimal performance.
- Excellent knowledge of Windows clustering and high-availability solutions.
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP and Kerberos.
- Excellent knowledge of TCP/IP Networking Protocols.
- Excellent knowledge of networking, storage, database and virtualization layers.
- Excellent knowledge of container orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Excellent knowledge of version control software such as GitHub and Subversion.
- Excellent knowledge of configuration management software such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform and SaltStack.
- Excellent knowledge of Infrastructure as Code principles and practices.
- Excellent knowledge of continuous integration (CI) and continuous development (CD) principles and practices.
- Excellent knowledge of applications development using Agile, and DevOps best practices.
- Excellent knowledge of operating system security and auditing methods.
- Excellent knowledge of security hardening principles in line with CIS industry benchmarks.
- Excellent knowledge of data security governance and regulations such as GDPR and SOX.
- Excellent knowledge of cloud computing - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings across Azure, AWS, GCP and Oracle.
Virtualisation SME
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