Description
Cloud Architect - DV Cleared
+ 12 month initial contract
+ Hampshire based
+ £520 to 590 per day
+ DV Cleared position
+ VMWare Cloud Architect
Required
Understanding of all components of VCF this includes: SDDC manager, vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T and vRealize Suite.
Excellent understanding of VMware vSphere components and their function in the infrastructure
Excellent Understanding of vCenter Server architecture
Experience in Managing vCenter Server Appliance and Platform services controller appliance
Experience in VM migration from vSphere 5.x to 7.x
Knowledge in working with VMware vCenter Converter tool
Knowledge on VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension(HCX) for VM migration
vRealize Automation - Blue printing IAAS, Day 2 management.
Experience in working with content library as an ISO store, and deploy a virtual machine
Previous experience in Configuring and managing vSphere infrastructure with VMware Host Client and VMware vSphere Client
Experience in working with vCenter Server storages: VMware vSphere VMFS, NFS, iSCS
Experience in managing virtual machines, templates, clones, and snapshots
Knowledge of how virtual machines vMotion and virtual machine Storage vMotion works
Experience in managing resource pools
Good understanding of VMware vSphere High Availability (vSphere HA) and cluster architecture
Managing vSphere HA and VMware vSphere® Fault Tolerance
Knowledge of VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler to improve host scalability
Experience in working with VMware vSphere® Update Manager to apply patches and perform basic troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter Server operations
Excellent Knowledge of NSX-T components and their function in the infrastructure
Excellent understanding of VMware NSX-T technologies and automation concepts
Deploy and Configure NSX-T components for management, control plane and data plane
Good understanding and knowledge of NSX layer 2 networking
Deploy and Configure logical switch networks
Deploy and configure NSX L2 bridging
Integration of 3rd party appliances into an SDN environment
Deploy and Configure all main features of the NSX Edge services gateway such as load balancing
Design and Configure NSX Edge Firewall rules to restrict network traffic both North/South and East/West
Design and implement micro-segmentation using NSX distributed Firewall
Excellent Network administration and troubleshooting skills
The candidate should have strong knowledge and experience of programmes that are run and executed using SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)/Lean-Agile Methods.
In-depth understanding of technology in direct responsibility
Strong MS Office skills eg Excel, Word and Project, Visio
Desirable
Dell Hyper converged Infrastructure
Palo Alto NSX-T integration
Terraform automation and deployment
Microsoft ADFS Services
DNS, DHCP Services
Customer, partner, 3rd party and vendor management