Hybrid Cloud Data Center Principal Administrator

Harrods Careers; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading luxury department store in Greater London seeks an Enterprise Services Principal Administrator (Data Centre). This role involves overseeing physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure, steering Harrods' transition to a modern cloud-native approach. The ideal candidate has strong experience with VMware VCF, Linux, and data center management. Excellent leadership and communication skills are essential, as is the ability to influence technical direction. This is a permanent position in the IT Service Management department offering excellent career progression.

Benefits

Opportunities for career growth

Friendly work environment

Qualifications

• Experience in VMware VCF and components including NSX-T, Avi, Tanzu.
• Experience in infrastructure with Linux (Red Hat and Ubuntu) and Cisco technologies.
• Strong technical knowledge in data center management and enterprise networking.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for end-to-end physical, virtual, and cloud platforms.
• Drive cloud strategy and infrastructure transformation.
• Develop roadmaps and collaborate with infrastructure and application teams.

Skills

VMWare VCF

Infrastructure (Linux, Red Hat, Ubuntu)

Container orchestration (Docker Swarm, Kubernetes)

Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration (Ansible, Terraform, GitLab)

Infrastructure Security

Communication skills

Influencing and negotiating

Tools

Cisco

HPe

Job description

A leading luxury department store in Greater London seeks an Enterprise Services Principal Administrator (Data Centre). This role involves overseeing physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure, steering Harrods' transition to a modern cloud-native approach. The ideal candidate has strong experience with VMware VCF, Linux, and data center management. Excellent leadership and communication skills are essential, as is the ability to influence technical direction. This is a permanent position in the IT Service Management department offering excellent career progression.