Specialist Platform and Compute Engineer

Boardroom Appointments; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 700 000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Specialist Platform and Computer Engineer to enhance their technical team. This role involves maintaining service availability, providing technical consultancy, and ensuring customer satisfaction through effective incident management. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with VMware and Azure technologies, along with a strong background in enterprise storage solutions. Join a dynamic environment where your expertise will contribute to innovative solutions and the continuous improvement of services. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact, this is the opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 6-7 years of experience in platform and computer engineering.
• Certifications in Microsoft Azure and VMware are highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Maintain service availability through routine maintenance and proactive monitoring.
• Provide technical consultancy and support for customer incidents.
• Ensure all customer documentation is kept up to date.

Skills

VMware vSphere

Microsoft Hyper-V

Azure IAAS

O365/M365 deployment

Scripting knowledge (PowerShell, Power CLI)

Troubleshooting Windows Server

Experience on SAN Fabric Switches

Experience administering Linux

Education

Graduate or qualified by experience

ITIL Foundation

Tools

Microsoft Azure

VMware

Dell EMC

HPE Server

Cisco Nexus Switches

Veeam Backup

Commvault

Job description

Specialist Platform and Computer Engineer

Qualifications:

• Graduate or qualified by experience with ideal certifications such as:

  • Microsoft Azure AZ-104 - Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)

  • VMware VCP VCP-DCV 6.x, 7.x, 8.x

  • Huawei Storage HCIA, HCIP

  • Hitachi Storage

  • Dell EMC

  • Dell Server certifications an advantage

  • HPE Server certifications an advantage

  • NetApp NCTA, NCDA, NAHSE, NCSE, NCIE SAN an advantage

  • ITIL Foundation

Experience:

Essential (6-7 Years):

• VMware vSphere 6.x 7.x

• Microsoft Hyper-V

• Enterprise storage such as Dell, HPE, IBM, EMC, Huawei, Hitachi

• Experience working on SAN Fabric Switches (Brocade and Cisco)

• Server hardware support such as Dell, HP, IBM

• Azure IAAS

• Experience of administering/troubleshooting Windows Server

• O365/M365 deployment, migration, and administration

Desirable (Any):

• Azure AVD

• Synology Storage

• Experience of administering/troubleshooting Linux

• Exposure to managing PCI-DSS compliant environments

• VMware SRM, vSphere Replication

• Experience of deploying/administering/troubleshooting MS SharePoint

• Experience working on Cisco Nexus Switches

• Experience working on VMware NSX and vCloud Director

• Scripting knowledge: PowerShell, Power CLI

• Knowledge of container technologies such as Kubernetes

• Cisco UCS

• Veeam Backup

• Commvault (Metallic in particular)

Role Responsibilities:

• Maintain service availability for customers by performing routine maintenance, failover testing, implementing best practices, pro-active monitoring of alerts and status changes, etc.

• Perform project-related duties with regards to new and changing infrastructure deployments as required.

• Regularly update customers on progress of incidents, problems, and changes by telephone and email.

• Regularly update the Company ticketing system (Service Now / Autotask) with quality notes detailing progress and actions completed on open incidents, problems, and change requests.

• Complete customer Change Requests, including impact and risk analysis, implementing out of hours where required.

• Provide technical consultancy to all other areas of the business to ensure the integrity, performance, and support of new opportunities that involve Platform and Compute Support.

• Provide prompt senior technical assistance on customer incidents when Tier 1 skills have exhausted resolution attempts.

• Find technical solutions to problems where necessary and practical, without compromising the commercial viability of current and future platform solutions.

• Stay up to date and accredited within the current technologies.

• Capture repeat faults and undertake root cause analysis.

• Proactively identify fault trends.

• Where required, perform the Lead Engineer role for some of the Company’s key customers on a support, service transition, and project basis.

• Work as part of the on-call rota and ensure resources are always available 24X7 and respond within SLA time frames to any calls from out of hours.

• Attend the Change Advisory Board for customer change requests.

• Attend meetings and working parties to represent Platform and Compute Support where necessary.

• Attend customer meetings to provide technical consultancy, usually by VC but occasionally on-site.

• Attend customer sites for onsite project and support-related activities.

• Undertake technical audits for key customers where issues have been identified and as part of the Service Improvement Process.

• Work closely with the solutions area of the business regarding developing new services and proposals.

• Ensure all customer documentation is kept up to date.

• Provide input to customer-facing Technical Incident Reports.

• Help identify gaps in existing technical documentation, knowledge, and skills.

• Create and maintain technical customer documentation.