Senior Cloud & Virtualization Architect

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

Job summary

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

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

VMware vSphere

VMware ESXi

VMware vCenter

vSAN

KVM

Proxmox VE

OpenShift Virtualization

Nutanix

Zerto

Veeam Backup & Replication

Education

Third-level qualification or equivalent industry experience

Tools

VMware vSphere

VMware ESXi

VMware vCenter

vSAN

KVM

Proxmox VE

Proxmox

OpenShift Virtualization

Nutanix

HPE Morpheus

Job description

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