Cloud Practice Architect

Eircom Limited; Dublin; Híbrido; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

eir Business, the B2B division of eir, seeks a Cloud Practice Architect with deep hands-on infra and virtualization experience for Irish public cloud platforms. You will collaborate with Professional Services, Cloud Operations, and Service Delivery to design, implement and support customer cloud environments across multiple datacentres.

The role focuses on secure, scalable infrastructure design, with tasks ranging from VMware migrations to disaster recovery and backup architecture, while

Formación

• Minimum 6 years experience in a hands-on infrastructure, cloud or virtualisation engineering role.
• Strong experience deploying, upgrading and supporting VMware, HPE Morpheus/VME, Nutanix, Proxmox or OpenShift Virtualization environments.
• Good troubleshooting skills, following a logical and systematic approach to identify symptoms, eliminate causes, diagnose root cause and provide resolution.
• Experience delivering technical implementation work for customer projects or managed service environments.
• Understanding of compute, storage, networking, backup and disaster recovery considerations.

Responsabilidades

• Deliver VMware migrations to alternative platforms.
• Configure and support enterprise SAN technologies, including Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage environments.
• Assist with storage presentation, multipathing, zoning, datastore configuration and capacity management.
• Support customer infrastructure upgrades, migrations and remediation activities.
• Support the design of customer cloud and infrastructure solutions, including high-level designs, low-level designs, bill of materials input, migration approaches and implementation planning.
• Assess customer requirements and propose appropriate virtualization, storage, backup and disaster recovery architectures that are secure, resilient and operationally supportable.
• Produce technical documentation, implementation plans, test plans and operational handover material.
• Work alongside project managers and service delivery teams during customer implementations.
• Act as an escalation point for complex infrastructure incidents and service requests.

Conocimientos

VMware vSphere

VMware ESXi

VMware vCenter

vSAN

KVM

Proxmox VE

OpenShift Virtualization

Nutanix

Zerto

Veeam Backup & Replication

Educación

Third-level qualification or equivalent industry experience

Herramientas

VMware vSphere

VMware ESXi

VMware vCenter

vSAN

KVM

Proxmox VE

Proxmox

OpenShift Virtualization

Nutanix

HPE Morpheus

Descripción del empleo

eir Business is the B2B division of eir and one of Ireland's leading providers of telecommunications, technology, cloud, cybersecurity, managed IT and workplace solutions. Supporting organisations of all sizes, from SMEs to large enterprises and public sector bodies, eir Business delivers secure, end-to-end connectivity and digital transformation services that help customers operate more efficiently, securely and effectively. Leveraging Ireland's largest mobile network, extensive fixed-line infrastructure, cloud capabilities and 24/7 expert support, eir Business partners with customers to design, implement and manage technology solutions that enable innovation, productivity and business growth.

Expectations From TheRole:

Responsibilities

This role requires an experienced Cloud Practice Architectwith strong working experience across hypervisors, enterprise storage, disasterrecovery and backup technologies. Experience with public cloud is highlydesirable.

The successful candidate will work with ProfessionalServices, Cloud Operations, Project Management and Service Delivery teams todeliver customer projects and maintain cloud platform services across multipledatacentres.

The role involves implementation, upgrade and support of anIrish public cloud infrastructure along with the backend systems supporting it.

The role also includes contributing to the design andsolution architecture of customer cloud environments, translating customerrequirements into secure, scalable and supportable infrastructure designs thatalign with operational standards, resilience requirements and managed servicedelivery models.

Tasks will involve:

• DeliverVMware migrations to alternative platforms.
• Configureand support enterprise SAN technologies, including Fibre Channel and iSCSIstorage environments.
• Assistwith storage presentation, multipathing, zoning, datastore configurationand capacity management.
• Supportcustomer infrastructure upgrades, migrations and remediation activities.
• Supportthe design of customer cloud and infrastructure solutions, includinghigh-level designs, low-level designs, bill of materials input, migrationapproaches and implementation planning.
• Assesscustomer requirements and propose appropriate virtualisation, storage,backup and disaster recovery architectures that are secure, resilient andoperationally supportable.
• Producetechnical documentation, implementation plans, test plans and operationalhandover material.
• Workalongside project managers and service delivery teams during customerimplementations.
• Actas an escalation point for complex infrastructure incidents and servicerequests.

Requirements For ASuccessful Application:

The Candidate:

• Excellentinterpersonal and customer service skills.
• Experiencecontributing to the design of new customer cloud solutions, includingcompute, storage, backup and disaster recovery considerations.
• Stronghands-on infrastructure engineering experience.
• Abilityto take ownership of technical issues and follow through to resolution.
• Provenability to work well under pressure in customer and operationalenvironments.
• Abilityto work collaboratively with project, operations and service deliveryteams.
• Abilityto mentor and support more junior team members when required.

Skills and experience:

• Minimum6 years experience in a hands-on infrastructure, cloud or virtualisationengineering role.
• Strongexperience deploying, upgrading and supporting VMware, HPE Morpheus/VME,Nutanix, Proxmox or OpenShift Virtualization environments.
• Goodtroubleshooting skills, following a logical and systematic approach toidentify symptoms, eliminate causes, diagnose root cause and provideresolution.
• Experiencedelivering technical implementation work for customer projects or managedservice environments.
• Experiencesupporting the design or architecture of customer infrastructureenvironments, including compute, storage, networking, backup and disasterrecovery considerations.
• Understandingof alternative virtualisation platforms such as KVM, Proxmox VE or similarhypervisors, with the ability to assess their suitability in customerenvironments.
• Workingknowledge of the following:
• VMwarevSphere, VMware ESXi, vCenter Server and vSAN.
• KVMhypervisor solutions such as Proxmox, HVM, etc.
• Enterprisestorage and SAN concepts, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, zoning,multipathing, LUN presentation and datastore management.
• Disasterrecovery technologies, including Zerto implementation, testing andoperational support.
• VeeamBackup & Replication, including backup jobs, repositories, proxies,restores and recovery testing.

Preferred:

• VMwareVCP certification or equivalent experience.
• VeeamVMCE certification or equivalent experience.
• Zertocertification or demonstrable implementation experience.
• Relevantthird-level qualification or equivalent industry experience.
• Ahigh level of professionalism and attention to detail.

Technologies

• Demonstrableexperience with many of the following technologies is desirable in asuccessful candidate.
• VMwarevSphere
• VMwareESXi
• VMwarevCenter

Others:

Our purpose is to connect for a better Ireland.

Our ambition is to be the number one choice for telecommunications and technology solutions, delivering for our customers today and into the future.

Our new values and behaviours reflect both who we are and who we strive to become. They are the way that we bring our purpose to life in eir.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive work environment. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process, please let us know, and we will work with you to meet your needs.

If successful in the interview process, eir reserves the right to conduct appropriate suitability checks in relation to prospective employees including but not limited to reference checking and/or other searches using publicly available information.