Global Infrastructure Engineer – Virtualization

Job Description

Responsibilities  

As a result of continued growth, we have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join our global team, to provide specialist support and lifecycle management for enterprise scale compute and storage platforms across our on-premise and cloud infrastructure. 

Global Infrastructure are responsible for the lifecycle management of the mission critical platforms that underpin our highly demanding products, platforms, and services.  To support direction and growth, the team requires a breadth and depth of skills and experience to respond to the demands of a growing business whilst maintaining availability of our core systems. 

The Global Infrastructure Engineer will need to possess a strong technical ability, as well as ability to coach/mentor others in the team, primarily focussed on Storage and Virtualisation technologies. 

You will need to have experience working in a fast-paced environment and able to prioritise tasks that contribute to the delivery of project workstreams, BAU activities, and response to incidents.   

You will be tenacious and passionate, with the ability to take ownership of tasks whilst managing your time effectively, and prioritising tasks to meet deadlines.  You will maintain excellent attention to detail and have a logical approach to solving problems under pressure and an active communicator on technical issues that affect client delivery. 

In addition to your technical skillset, you will be experienced in executing standard changes in a controlled manner, following company procedures, and ensuring we maintain high standards across the team. 

You will need to have experience working in a fast-paced environment and able to prioritise tasks that contribute to the delivery of project workstreams, BAU activities, and response to incidents.   

The role requires you to have the ability to communicate clearly and with impact in a fast-paced and high pressure situations including the ability to challenge and influence the view of senior stakeholders respectfully, confidently, and effectively to bring a new perspective.  

Tasks (what does the role do on a day-to-day basis) 

• You drive forward the infrastructure strategy including server virtualization platform, gradually moving towards a private cloud concept and software defined datacentre capability 

• BAU activities in the infrastructure domain including VM resource expansion reduction (CPU, memory, storage), Backup checks and VM recovery, SRM checks & maintenance, vulnerability remediation, patching, etc 

• You provide level 2 & 3 support for virtualization related incidents & problems 

• You drive the activities of vendors, or third-party partners involved in L2/L3 support 

• You actively participate in projects including Data Centre consolidation, etc. 

• You organise and drive knowledge Transfer to colleagues 

• You are on standby (24/7) one week a month and can participate in monitoring, reporting, or planned changes out of business hours 

• You participate to DRP tests campaigns in partnership with colleagues across the business and Information Security 

• You actively participate in audits remediations and security projects 

• You participate actively to the backlog management of the team 

• You provide and share documentations 

• You provide capacity management reporting and visibility on action 

• Internal communication with the team colleagues where appropriate