Virtualisation Engineer - York (hybrid / remote) Overview: #TeamCandour 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.