Candour Solutions
Virtualisation Engineer – York (hybrid / remote)
Overview:
are have partnered with a thriving financial services player to source a Virtualisation Engineer to join the team with within the Compute chapter. The organisation are a dynamic and modern company that values collaboration, innovation, and a forward-thinking approach to technology. If you are passionate about driving IT initiatives, embracing change, and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement, we want to hear from you!
Responsibilities
- Act as a primary technical contact for key technical areas, coordinating with stakeholders and colleagues as required.
- Contribute to the planning, design, and delivery of IT initiatives.
- Configure tools to automate the provisioning, testing, and deployment of infrastructure.
- Produce and own system and infrastructure designs, policies, and documentation.
- Provide reports and proposals for improvements to colleagues and stakeholders.
- Provide advice and guidance to support the adoption of methods and tools.
- Drive IT Services in the migration towards a code-centric model for managing infrastructure.
- Act as a support escalation point for the 3rd line infrastructure support provider.
- Proactively manage IT infrastructure to minimize business disruption and identify and drive initiatives to improve the quality and effectiveness of the infrastructure services.
- Manage and provide 3rd line support for infrastructure platforms in accordance with agreed service levels, standards, and processes.
- Discover and remove technical debt as part of a continuous improvement work ethic.
- Drive decision making across different teams and disciplines, seeking informed decisions that lead to value-add, quality, appropriate outcomes.
- Drive the adoption of Agile values, principles, and practices within IT Services.
- Actively contribute to the development of other team members.
- Embrace change and support the IT Services vision and strategy.
Qualifications:
Technical Skills – essential
- VMware vSphere (installation, configuration, performance tuning, capacity management)
- HPE enterprise hardware e.g. HPE Simplivity, Synergy, and Bladecenter
- Awareness of Enterprise backup solutions e.g. CommVault
- Enterprise storage arrays and fibre channel SANs e.g. Pure and Brocade
- Operating Systems (including in-depth troubleshooting and performance tuning experience) e.g. Windows Server, Red Hat Linux
- Aware of Build automation tools e.g. Terraform, Puppet, Ansible
- Patch management tools e.g. Ivanti
- Scripting tool e.g. PowerShell
- Event monitoring tools e.g. SolarWinds
- Cloud infrastructures e.g. Microsoft Azure
Desirable
- Experience working within an Agile environment
- An appreciation of DevOps principles.
- An appreciation of Infrastructure as Code principles and how they can be applied in an Enterprise environment.
If you are driven by a mission to make a difference and thrive in a collaborative, innovative environment, we would love to hear from you reach out anytime and we can arrange an initial informal chat.
