Job Summary:

To build, manage, maintain and support the migration of customers test and production systems on Windows, RHEL and VMware platforms.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

o Experience of large scale VMware migrations running mission critical customer applications.

o Assemble and commission physical servers, blades and blade chassis technologies, plus supporting hardware when required.

o Experience of large Data Centre installations and practices.

o Systems Administration of Windows and VMware.

o Design, planning, configuration, support, testing and documentation of new and existing Windows and VMware systems.

o Design, planning, configuration, support, testing and documentation of backup, archive and restore using tools such as Veritas Backup Exec

o Design, planning, configuration, support, testing and documentation of SAN systems, disk layout and configurations.

o Disaster recovery and Business Continuity design, planning and testing.

o Analyse and troubleshoot production faults and determine the most effective course as a subject matter expert in an expedited manner.

o Implementing server hardening standards as advised by Information Security team.

o Maintain register of IT assets.

o In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, the job holder is required to perform other duties assigned by their manager from time-to-time, as may be reasonably required of them.

Minimum Job Requirements:

Skills knowledge and experience:

Essential relevant and recent experience at an appropriate level in - Windows and VMware Systems Administration

Ideally relevant and recent experience at an appropriate level in:

o HPe Blade chassis and servers

o Windows 2016 - 2022 operating systems

o VMware 7/8 , Virtual centre and SRM

o Anti-virus - McAfee

Other:

o SAN Storage - pref EMC PowerMax/Unity

o Fibre channel networks/zoning - Cisco MDS

o Backup Systems - EMC Data Domain/Backup Exec

o VMware replication o PCI-DSS Environments

Education and qualifications

Essential:

o Degree in IT/Computing, Computer Science, or equivalent education/experience

Desirable:

o Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

o VMWareVCP

o ITIL certification