Senior Cloud Consultant

Eircom Limited; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

eir business is seeking a Senior Cloud Consultant to join the expanding team in Ireland. The role emphasizes hands-on design, deployment and upgrade of VMware vSphere, vSAN and ESXi, plus KVM/Proxmox environments, storage, and disaster recovery platforms such as Zerto and Veeam.

You will collaborate with Professional Services, Cloud Operations and Service Delivery to deliver customer cloud projects across datacentres, providing architecture guidance and implementation planning.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years experience in hands-on infrastructure, cloud or virtualization engineering.
• Strong experience deploying, upgrading and supporting VMware vSphere environments.
• Good troubleshooting and incident-resolution skills in complex environments.
• Experience delivering technical implementation work for customer projects.
• Experience with compute, storage, networking and disaster recovery design.

Responsibilities

• Design, install and configure VMware vSphere environments including ESXi, vCenter and vSAN.
• Design and implement KVM-based environments with Proxmox or similar.
• Deliver upgrades, migrations, hardware refreshes and platform enhancements.
• Configure and support SAN technologies (Fibre Channel, iSCSI) and storage.
• Support Zerto DR solutions and perform testing, validation and documentation.
• Implement and support Veeam Backup & Replication and recovery testing.
• Create high-level/low-level designs, BOM input and migration planning.
• Produce technical documentation and handover materials; liaise with project teams.

Skills

VMware vSphere

VMware ESXi

VMware vCenter

VMware vSAN

KVM

Proxmox VE

Zerto

Veeam Backup & Replication

Storage design

Disaster recovery

Education

Relevant third-level qualification

Tools

Proxmox VE

KVM

HPE Alletra

HPE 3PAR

Veeam

Zerto

Job description

eir business is Ireland’s trusted provider of secure, managed connectivity, cloud, cybersecurity, workplace, mobile and technology talent solutions. eir business is seeking a Senior Cloud Consultant to join our growing team.

Responsibilities

This role requires an experienced Senior Cloud Consultant with strong working experience across VMware, KVM, enterprise storage, disaster recovery and backup technologies.

The successful candidate will work with Professional Services, Cloud Operations, Project Management and Service Delivery teams to deliver customer projects and maintain cloud platform services across multiple datacentres.

The role involves implementation, upgrade and support of VMware-based cloud infrastructure together with enterprise SAN, Zerto disaster recovery and Veeam Backup & Replication platforms.

The role also includes contributing to the design and solution architecture of customer cloud environments, translating customer requirements into secure, scalable and supportable infrastructure designs that align with operational standards, resilience requirements and managed service delivery models.

Expectations From TheRole:

• Design, install, configure VMware vSphere environments, including ESXi, vCenter and vSAN.
• Design, install, configure KVM based environments, including Proxmox, HVM, etc.
• Deliver VMware upgrades, migrations, hardware refreshes and platform enhancement activities.
• Configure and support enterprise SAN technologies, including Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage environments.
• Assist with storage presentation, multipathing, zoning, datastore configuration and capacity management.
• Implement and support Zerto disaster recovery solutions.
• Perform disaster recovery testing, recovery validation and technical documentation.
• Implement, configure and support Veeam Backup & Replication solutions.
• Assist with backup job configuration, repository management, recovery testing and backup troubleshooting.
• 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 virtualisation, storage, backup and disaster recovery architectures that are secure, resilient and operationally supportable.
• Work with alternative hypervisor platforms such as KVM and Proxmox VE where required, particularly in customer migration, platform assessment or VMware diversification scenarios.
• 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.

Requirements For ASuccessful Application:

The Candidate

• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Experience contributing to the design of new customer cloud solutions, including compute, storage, backup and disaster recovery considerations.
• Ability to take ownership of technical issues and follow through to resolution.
• Proven ability to work well under pressure in customer and operational environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with project, operations and service delivery teams.
• Ability to mentor and support more junior team members when required.

Skills and experience

• Minimum 6 years experience in a hands-on infrastructure, cloud or virtualisation engineering role.
• Strong experience deploying, upgrading and supporting VMware vSphere 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.
• Experience supporting the design or architecture of customer infrastructure environments, including compute, storage, networking, backup and disaster recovery considerations.
• Understanding of alternative virtualisation platforms such as KVM, Proxmox VE or similar hypervisors, with the ability to assess their suitability in customer environments.

Working knowledge of the following:

• VMware vSphere, VMware ESXi, vCenter Server and vSAN.
• KVM hypervisor solutions such as Proxmox, HVM, etc.
• Enterprise storage and SAN concepts, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, zoning, multipathing, LUN presentation and datastore management.
• Disaster recovery technologies, including Zerto implementation, testing and operational support.
• Veeam Backup & Replication, including backup jobs, repositories, proxies, restores and recovery testing.

Preferred:

• VMware VCP certification or equivalent experience.
• Veeam VMCE certification or equivalent experience.
• Zerto certification or demonstrable implementation experience.
• Relevant third-level qualification or equivalent industry experience.
• A high level of professionalism and attention to detail.

Technologies

• VMware vSphere
• VMware ESXi
• VMware vCenter
• VMware vSAN
• VMware SRM
• Veeam Backup & Replication
• HPE Alletra
• HPE 3PAR
• iSCSI SAN
• Multipathing and storage presentation
• KVM / Linux-based virtualisation
• Proxmox VE or similar alternative hypervisor platforms
• High-level and low-level solution design documentation