Virtualisation SME

Inside ir35

Hybrid - 2 days a week in London office

Essential:

• Current and previous versions of VMWare and Nutanix and related technologies

• Scripting and programming languages such as PowerShell, Bash and Python

• Hardware troubleshooting and fault diagnosis (Dell, Cisco UCS, IBM, HP)

• Ability to tune Network, Storage, Server and Virtualisation layers for optimal performance and reliability

• Networking Protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLAN's)

• Disk provisioning, expansion and de-provisioning activities

• Server snapshot administration and other OS related virtualisation tasks

• DNS and IP address administration

• Firewall configuration activities

• Fluent in Backup and Recovery processes and procedures

• Advanced knowledge of Clustering, High-Availability, Replication and Disaster Recovery techniques

• Excellent Performance Tuning skills, in-depth knowledge of system internals

• Ability to interpret and implement CIS security hardening recommendations in a controlled manner

• Acute awareness of Security and Auditing requirements in a regulated environment

Highly Desirable:

• AWX/Ansible Tower

• Git, Ansible, Terraform and TeamCity

• Serena Deployment Automation (SDA) and Jenkins

• Kubernetes and Docker

• "Infrastructure as Code" Principles and practices.

• "Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Development (CD)" Principles and practices

• Agile, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps Principles and practices

• Active Directory, LDAP and Kerberos

• IBM Tivoli/Netcool

• Cloud computing - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings across Azure, AWS, GCP and Oracle

• Knowledge of data security governance and regulations such as GDPR and SOX

Desirable:

• Current and previous versions of Microsoft Windows Server and related technologies

• Current and previous versions of RHEL, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris and related technologies

• Dell EMC PowerStore (SAN) and Isilon (NAS)

• Rubrik, EMC Networker, Data Domain and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

• CyberArk

• Splunk

• Qualys

• Cisco Tetration

• ServiceNow

• JIRA and Confluence