Description
For one of our clients we are looking for a VMware System Engineer
Start: January 7, 2013
Duration: 6 months
Location: The Hague
Deployment: Fulltime
Maximum rate: Euros 60,00 per hour (all-inclusive, ex. VAT).
NOTE: Please send us your CV including covering letter (covering the job requirements), rate, availability and Holiday plans!
Deadline to respond is December 7, 2012.
- Strong verbal and written (it is required that all documentation be written in English) communication skills in English is essential.
Background:
The VMware environment consists of multiple clusters hosted on IBM xSeries, distributed across two geographical locations hosting a combination of both Linux and Windows based guests.
Deliverable Service:
The service to be provided consist of assisting the team in the design, planning, implementation, maintenance and support of the VMware infrastructure. The services also involve providing third line of support for incident management and performing problem solving.
Responsibilities and Key Duties:
- Be jointly responsible for the management, configuration and administration of the VMware systems infrastructure.
- To establish and maintain best practice standards for configuration of related technologies including server, networking and storage.
- Maintain systems while undertaking upgrades and/or virtualisation projects.
- To manage the testing and upgrade of the VMware systems infrastructure.
- To develop, manage and be responsible for the data backup and recovery strategy, including DR testing of the Group's VMware deployment.
- To ensure that relevant security-, legal-, software licence- and audit-policies are implemented, monitored and adhered to.
- To provide VMware infrastructure support.
Technical Skills:
- In depth knowledge of vSphere 5 with VCP 5 certification.
- Good knowledge of both Linux and Windows operating systems software.
- Powershell/PowerCLI Scripting.
- Good networking skills and in depth TCP/IP understanding essential, vSphere distributed Switches.
- In depth knowledge of Intel-based Servers.
- Understanding of SAN technologies, design and usage.
- VMware vCloud Director (vCD) certification desirable.
- VMware VCAP-DCD (vSphere 5) certification desirable.
- Experience with IBM x-series Servers desirable.
Professional Skills:
- The successful candidate will be able and willing to quickly learn the operational processes and procedures currently in place to support a mission critical production environment.
- The ability to organise and structure their daily work independently while working alongside the others teams and providing regular reports to line management.
- Must have excellent interpersonal, organizational, communication and team working skills and the ability to interact with multiple levels of personnel both within the organization and externally.
- Collaborate with other team members and with external groups
- Must pay strong attention to detail and quality.
Additional Service Requirements:
This position is a daytime position but will require flexibility to perform system maintenance during evenings and weekends plus ad hoc on call arrangements.