Description
Infrastructure Virtualisation Engineer
12 Month contract +
Based in Corsham
£450 - £550 per day
Inside IR35
Role Description:
The Infrastructure Virtualisation Engineering Service will support the technical team responsible for the design, development, documentation, building and validation of the core virtual estate which form the backbone of the Platform.
The detailed responsibilities of the team include:
* The design, development, building and validation of all virtualisation components which form part of the Platform.
* Production and review of all levels of design artefacts.
* Supporting wider system testing activities.
* Working with Service Management to resolve issues
Essentials skills, qualifications and experience:
VMware ESXi
Distributed Virtual Switches
Distributed Resource Scheduler
Distributed Power Management
VMware vSAN
Hybrid and All Flash storage configurations
VMware vCenter
High Availability;
Clustering;
Cross-site failure and resiliency
VMware NSX
Microsegmentation Firewalling
Cross Site VC NSX
VMware Horizon
AppVolumes.
AppStacks.
At least one professional Virtualisation certification that has been obtained within the last five years, ie VMware VCP (VMware vCenter Certified Professional) or similar.
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
Strong critical thinking and analytical skills to solve problems and propose new ideas.
Competency in MS Office Suite.
Desirable skills, qualifications, and experience:
Working within the public sector, preferably Defence, and ideally with Defence Digital (formerly ISS).
Delivering accredited secure solutions within the UK Public Sector.
Delivering in Agile (SAFE4) and Waterfall projects.
Large Virtualisation infrastructure environments that operate at scale.
Knowledge of The Atlassian toolset (JIRA and Confluence) to record and document work.
Networking certification, CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate), VMware Network Virtualisation (NSX-DC) or similar.
A Computer Science university-based education at Bachelors or Masters level.
Experience in developing secure architecture within a multi-tenanted environment.