Virtualisation Specialist
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Job Title: Virtualisation Specialist
Location: Dublin 8 Hybrid Minimum 2 days onsite and as required to participate in onsite meetings workshops or to carry out tasks that cannot be done remotely
Contract / Permanent: FTC 12 Months With further extension
Start date: 3rd June 2025
Role:
The Client Hosting Service is primarily built on VMware with over 1000 VMs and 40 hosts. There are approximately 100 standalone servers as well as some legacy HyperV workloads these are being reduced and will ultimately be phased out completely. The client also has some workloads running in MS Azure the scale of which is expected to grow in the coming years. The proposed resource responsibilities will include ensuring the ongoing stability health and maintenance of the physical virtual and cloud environments such as troubleshooting monitoring upgrades and patching. The proposed candidate must have significant experience in a data centre infrastructure management with handson production administration of large virtual system environments using VMware vSphere.
The hosting team currently consists of one full time permanent staff and Contractor the proposed resource will work with the team to ensure the smooth running of the service and will be required to take the lead on specified infrastructure projects. Responsibilities will also include the of runbooks and to deliver on service requests such as creating new VMs assigning additional storage and compute cloning and snapshots as required. Part of the duties may also include providing mentoring and skills transfer to any new staff that join the team.
The clients infrastructure consists mainly of Windows servers 20 and 2022 with some Linux servers the proposed resource is expected to have a good working knowledge and experience in working with same.
The client is in the process of developing a VDI environment initially to support 500 desktops which will also grow over time. The proposed resource will be also working on this project and will work directly both with CLIENT and VMware technical staff to deliver the project. The hosting team in conjunction with Network Security Services are in the process of implementing network segmentation using NSX and while having indepth NSX experience is not a mandatory requirement a good working knowledge would be a distinct advantage.
The proposed resource will provide skills transfers coaching and mentoring to client staff to enhance their technical skills and facilitate certification attainment. This includes knowledge sharing handson training and support for industry certifications.
The client operates an ITIL based Service Management process. As part of the service improvement process the resource will have direct involvement with an ongoing programme of security optimisation and will be required to work closely with the Hosting and IAM teams to support this process.
Experience Level Required:
It is a mandatory requirement that the Resource proposed for this role has not less than 7 years relevant experience. Any other experience levels less than this will not be accepted.
It is a mandatory requirement that the Resource proposed hold the following qualifications or equivalents:
VCP or VCAP in Datacentre Virtualisation
MCSE Microsoft Professional Certification or equivalent MS approved certification in Server Administration
Note: Evidence (i.e. a copy of the relevant certification of these may be required prior to contract award.
Key Deliverable:
The following nonexhaustive list of Key Deliverables are applicable to this Role.
1. To work with client technical and functional staff to analyse requirements and develop enhancements to the Hosting environment.
2. Provisioning of virtual/physical servers required for the operation of specific IT Systems
3. Planning and supporting IT Projects
4. To ensure the ongoing stability and overall health of the server hosting environment including the physical hardware virtualisation and OS layers.
5. Evaluate and apply any necessary security patches hotfixes service packs and hardware updates.
6. Supporting and configurating VMware VM Servers
7. Building and managing 3rd party management platforms for Kubernetes clusters.
8. Significant experience in working with the following VMware technologies
VMware vCentre
vSphere
vRealize operations
vRealize log insight
vRealize network insight
NSXT
Omnissa Horizon
9. Server administration on the following OSs
Windows serverand 2022
Linux/Unix
10. Experience working with Terraform and Ansible
11. Incident analysis and resolution
12. Developing custom reports as required.
13. Resource and Capacity Planning.
14. Documentation of critical tasks.
15. Operating within an ITIL environment
Requirements
Key Experience/Competencies/Skillsets:
The following Experience/Competencies/Skillsets are applicable to this Role.
1 Designing administering and maintaining data centre infrastructure with handson production administration of large virtual system environments using VMware vSphere and vCentre. This includes upgrading to newer versions and patch management. The candidate must demonstrate their experience in the following;
Working with vCenter and ESXi
Provisioning of LUNs and volumes
Powershell and CLI
Distributed Switches
Provisioning virtual machines and automation of same
Snapshots/cloning/instant clone
Capacity and Performance Management
Troubleshooting
2 Windows Server Administration on current Windows OS versions2022. This includes troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
3 Linux Server Administration on one or more enterprise Linux platforms (Redhat Ubuntu etc.. This includes troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
4 Experience working with the following technologies.
vRealize operations
vRealize log insight
vRealize network insight
NSXT
Kubernetes clusters
Omnissa Horizon
Terraform
Ansible
Key Experience/Competencies/Skillsets: The following Experience/Competencies/Skillsets are applicable to this Role. 1 Designing, administering, and maintaining data centre infrastructure with hands-on production administration of large virtual system environments using VMware vSphere and vCentre. This includes upgrading to newer versions and patch management. The candidate must demonstrate their experience in the following; Working with vCenter and ESXi Provisioning of LUNs and volumes Powershell and CLI Distributed Switches Provisioning virtual machines and automation of same Snapshots/cloning/instant clone Capacity and Performance Management Troubleshooting 2 Windows Server Administration on current Windows OS versions 2012, 2016, 2019, 2022. This includes troubleshooting and root cause analysis. 3 Linux Server Administration on one or more enterprise Linux platforms (Redhat, Ubuntu etc.. This includes troubleshooting and root cause analysis. 4 Experience working with the following technologies. vRealize operations vRealize log insight vRealize network insight NSX-T Kubernetes clusters Omnissa Horizon Terraform Ansible
Education
It is a mandatory requirement, that the Resource proposed hold the following qualifications or equivalents: VCP or VCAP in Datacentre Virtualisation MCSE Microsoft Professional Certification or equivalent MS approved certification in Server Administration
Employment Type
Full Time
