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Location: Dublin 8, Hybrid Minimum 2 days onsite and as required to participate in onsite meetings, workshops or to carry out tasks that cannot be done remotely
Contract / Permanent: FTC 12 Months, With further extension
Role:
The Client Hosting Service is primarily built on VMware, with over 1000 VMs and 40+ hosts. There are approximately 100 standalone servers, as well as some legacy Hyper-V workloads, which are being phased out. The client also has workloads in MS Azure, expected to grow. The resource's responsibilities include ensuring the stability, health, and maintenance of physical, virtual, and cloud environments, such as troubleshooting, monitoring, upgrades, and patching. Significant experience in data centre infrastructure management and hands-on administration of large virtual environments using VMware vSphere is required.
The hosting team currently includes one full-time staff and a contractor. The proposed resource will work with the team, lead specific infrastructure projects, execute runbooks, and fulfill service requests like creating VMs, storage, cloning, and snapshots. Mentoring and skills transfer to new staff may also be required.
The infrastructure mainly comprises Windows servers (2012, 2016, 2019, 2022), with some Linux servers. Good working knowledge of these is expected.
The client is developing a VDI environment supporting initially 500 desktops, with future growth. The resource will participate in this project and collaborate with client and VMware staff. The team is also implementing network segmentation with NSX; while in-depth NSX experience is not mandatory, a good working knowledge is advantageous.
The role includes providing skills transfer, coaching, and mentoring to enhance client staff's technical skills and facilitate certifications, involving knowledge sharing, hands-on training, and industry certifications support.
The client operates an ITIL-based Service Management process. The resource will be involved in security optimization programs, working closely with Hosting and IAM teams.
Experience Level Required:
· Minimum 7 years of relevant experience is mandatory; less experience will not be accepted.
· Must hold the following qualifications or equivalents:
- VCP or VCAP in Data Centre Virtualisation
- MCSE or equivalent MS certification in Server Administration
Evidence of certifications may be required prior to contract award.
The key deliverables include analyzing requirements, developing environment enhancements, provisioning servers, supporting IT projects, ensuring environment stability, applying updates, supporting VMware and management platforms, working with various OSs, using Terraform and Ansible, incident resolution, reporting, resource planning, documentation, and ITIL processes.
Requirements
The required competencies include designing, administering, and maintaining data centre infrastructure with hands-on experience in VMware vSphere and vCentre, including upgrades and patch management, working with vCenter and ESXi, provisioning LUNs, using PowerShell and CLI, managing distributed switches, automating VM provisioning, capacity and performance management. Also, Windows Server administration on current versions, troubleshooting Linux servers, and experience with relevant technologies.
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