VMWare Specialist (1 YEAR CONTRACT ROLE)

The Focus Group; Randburg; On-site; ZAR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Une entreprise innovante recherche un expert technique pour fournir un soutien essentiel dans l'installation et l'optimisation des systèmes informatiques. Le candidat idéal possède plus de 10 ans d'expérience et des certifications en VMware, avec une connaissance approfondie des environnements cloud. Ce rôle nécessite une approche proactive pour la résolution de problèmes dans un environnement dynamique.

Qualifications

• 10 years minimum d'expérience dans un rôle technique spécialisé.
• Doit être fiable, conforme et respecter les normes de sécurité.

Responsibilities

• Assurer l'installation, le dépannage et la maintenance des systèmes.
• Participer à l'audit et à l'amélioration des processus.
• Fournir un soutien technique et des solutions durables.

Skills

VMWare Specialist

Storage Network Security

VMware NSX

AWS

Cloud Knowledge

Hitachi Hardware

ESXi

Monitoring

Education

VMware Certifications

Job description

Job Purpose

To provide specialist technical expertise and support in installing; testing; tuning; optimizing; diagnosing problems; repairing; upgrading and maintaining both externally and internally supplied hardware and systems software (i.e. Operating systems; data management products; office automation products; embedded systems); and other utility enabling software and related equipment.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to a culture of transformation by participating in organization culture building initiatives, business strategy, and CSI.
• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, ensuring personal and professional growth. Understand and embrace the company vision and values, leading by example. Identify opportunities to improve or enhance processes, adding value to the organization.
• Ensure adherence to documented procedures by auditing service delivery functions.
• Ensure the correct and effective use of system hardware and software.
• Resolve issues by inspecting malfunctioning computer hardware, software and/or components - analyzing cause, and planning repair procedures.
• Recommend solutions through the investigation of service problems.
• Support the business process needs by performing and consulting on a variety of technical tasks in the diagnosis, repair, maintenance and installation of computers and/or related equipment.
• Ensure documentation for relevant systems software product and operational documents are prepared and maintained.
• Approve and recommend actions to be taken and identify those which merit action.
• Adhere to organizational process by ensuring standards are implemented and correctly applied when design is reviewed or designed.
• Enable decision making and technical reviews.
• Ensure contingency during disaster recovery (DR).
• Provide sustainable solutions per incident by conducting root cause and trend analysis.
• Ensure knowledge management, continuity and team success through constructive participation in a diverse team and by sharing knowledge with team.
• Maintain a broad knowledge of state-of-the-art technology, equipment and or systems across domains.
• Meet the organization's problem management needs through liaising with suitable vendors.
• Build sound professional relationships.
• Ensure understanding of client needs.
• Ensure accurate reporting to stakeholders.
• Provide advice to junior staff by participating in peer reviews and providing technical mentoring.
• Enable recommendations and planning for the tuning of system hardware and software.
• Monitor system efficiency against published SLAs.
• Recover cost by ensuring time are captured correctly and against correct project.
• Ensure end to end project delivery.
• Assist with DRS

Skills

• Senior VMWare Specialist Version 7 & 8 / VCP certification essential
• Storage network security experience / certification
• VMware NSX (network virtualization and security platform) certification
• Cloud knowledge as it is a hybrid enviro – AWS / Azure / Google Cloud
• Storage certification
• Hitachi or similar hardware / Dell / HP advantage
• VMware's Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) is a feature within vSphere that automates the distribution of workloads across a cluster of ESXi hosts
• Monitoring, deploy, manage scale, installation changes late at night, critical upgrades, best practices, migration from cloud to on premises
• ESXi

Candidate must be:

• Reliable / high standards / compliance / integrity / abides by security guidelines / highlight volatile environment
• Hit ground running
• 10 years min exp
• Office based

Desired Skills:

• Architecture
• AWS
• Installation
• Networks
• Security
• Virtualization
• VMware