Infrastructure Virtualisation Engineer

Job Specification LAD-T INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER

Overview

The Infrastructure Engineer will support the technical team responsible for the design, development, documentation, building and validation of the LAD-T virtual estate This will include:

. The design, development, building and validation of all virtualisation components on the LAD-T solution
. Production and review of all levels of design artefacts.
. Supporting LAD-T system testing activities.

Essential skills, qualifications, and experience
In order to deliver this service, it is essential that individuals have:

Demonstrable experience of at least 3 years within the industry with detailed knowledge and understanding, of the design, implementation, and troubleshooting of the following:

- 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.
- Hold a valid Security Clearance (SC).
- Competency in MS Office Suite.

Desirable skills, qualifications, and experience
In order to deliver this service, it is desirable that individuals have:

Experience of:

- 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.
- Chartered Engineer Status