Description
A large digital advertising firm are looking for a VDI specialist to design and implement a technical solution. The successful candidate will become the service owner, they will be responsible for support, scaling, improving services and adding value to the service longer term; a "go to person" for all things VDI.
Key Responsibilities
- Help define the company's VDI service offering.
- Refine the delivery processes.
- Develop a program of work to maintain, develop and enhance the VDI service offering, ensuring it is fit for purpose and relevant.
- Provide a senior level of expertise in the facilitation of VDI solutions.
- Suggest and implement improvements which will enable the company to deliver better VDI services, and reduce cost and complexity.
- Ensure timely resolution of VDI issues as escalated by the IT Operations teams.
- Ensure all designs and solutions are in alignment with Virtualisation architecture standards.
- Ensure all VDI implementation activities are managed effectively through change and release management procedures, to ensure maximum availability of services.
- Designs and documentation written to high standard.
- Work with key stakeholders to improve technical standards and delivery processes.
- Liaise with 3rd Party Vendors and Support providers to ensure timely and effective services.
Key Requirements
- Demonstrated experience and advanced knowledge of the following:
- VMWare Horizon Suite, vSphere and ESXi
- Cisco UCS Compute
- Cisco Nexus Networking
- oWindows 7/Windows Server/RHEL
- Powershell and PowerCLI
- VMware vCloud Automation Centre, vCloud Director, vCentre, Capacity IQ, Orchestrator
- Understanding of server architectures, including peripheral interfaces (iSCSI, RAID, Ethernet) and multi-processor designs (SMP).
- Familiarity with systems management concepts, processes and standards; capacity/performance management and tuning; and storage and network management.
- Consideration for the 'supportability' of a design whilst maintaining 'fit for purpose' requirements.
- Knowledge of storage technologies (SAN, NAS).
- Knowledge of load balancing technologies (hardware/software/clustering).
- Knowledge of network concepts and technologies (routing, switching, subnetting, DNS, Firewalls).
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Visio.
- Basic Operating System skills (Linux, Windows Server)
If you wish to apply please contact Harry Wade or click on the apply button below.