Virtualization & Storage Engineer - Data Centre Ops
WLG
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Job summary
WLG in The Hague, Netherlands, seeks an Infrastructure Engineer responsible for the hosting service's day-to-day operations, physical data-centre management and virtualization environments. You will maintain VMware-based infrastructure, storage, backups and related networks, collaborating with senior technicians and service delivery managers.
You bring an MSc or BSc with years of hands-on data-centre experience, strong knowledge of VMware and ITIL practices, and clear English communication to
Qualifications
- MSc in a related subject with five years of related experience, or a BSc with seven
- In-depth data-centre concepts: servers, storage, virtualization, and backup/restore of virtual environments
- Hands-on data-centre management on VMware vSphere 7+ with blade and rack-mount servers; knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation
- SAN and NAS fundamentals — TCP/IP, Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI, WWN, LIFs
- Installing, monitoring and maintaining data-centre equipment, including cabling and the physical infrastructure around it
- Active Directory, Windows Server and Red Hat Linux
- IT asset and configuration management, and ITIL practices
- Automation with VMware Aria or Ansible
- Clear English; documentation you would not mind someone else inheriting
Responsibilities
- Day-to-day operation and maintenance of the hosting services
- Supporting the senior technicians, engineers and service delivery managers across design, engineering, implementation, operation and integration
- Administering and maintaining the virtual infrastructure, and system administration on the platforms you are given
- Installing, managing and running the common user services carried over the networks
- Walking the data centre: daily physical checks of hardware, replacing failing parts before they take something with them
- Keeping the change process honest — topology diagrams and the configuration database updated whenever kit goes in or comes out
- Troubleshooting in the data centre, and keeping a proper record of the work
- Advising on the whole life of the capabilities and services, and watching the service levels closely
- Writing the operating procedures and instructions the service runs on
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Job description
WLG in The Hague, Netherlands, seeks an Infrastructure Engineer responsible for the hosting service's day-to-day operations, physical data-centre management and virtualization environments. You will maintain VMware-based infrastructure, storage, backups and related networks, collaborating with senior technicians and service delivery managers.
You bring an MSc or BSc with years of hands-on data-centre experience, strong knowledge of VMware and ITIL practices, and clear English communication to
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