Infrastructure Engineer (VMware, SANNAS and Data Centre) for NATO with security clearance

Infrastructure engineering where the data centre is down the corridor notin another countrys cloud region.

You would be the infrastructure-as-a-service engineer for a multinational defence hostingservice in The Hague Netherlands virtualisation storage backup and the physical data centrethat carries them across the whole life of the service.

What you would be doing

• Day-to-day operation and maintenance of the hosting services
• Supporting the senior technicians engineers and service delivery managers across designengineering implementation operation and integration
• Administering and maintaining the virtual infrastructure and system administration on theplatforms 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 beforethey take something with them
• Keeping the change process honest topology diagrams and the configuration database updatedwhenever 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 levelsclosely
• Writing the operating procedures and instructions the service runs on

What you would bring

• An MSc in a related subject with five years of related experience or a BSc with seven
• Real depth in data-centre concepts technologies and standards: servers storagevirtualisation and backup and restore of virtual environments
• Hands-on data-centre management on VMware vSphere 7 or later with blade and rack-mountservers; knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation
• SAN and NAS fundamentals TCP/IP Fibre Channel FCoE iSCSI WWN LIFs against SANunified and NAS storage
• Installing monitoring and maintaining data-centre equipment including cabling and thephysical infrastructure around it
• Active Directory Windows Server and Red Hat Linux
• IT asset and configuration management and sound ITIL practice
• Automation with tools such as VMware Aria or Ansible
• Sound practical knowledge of IT security
• Documentation you would not mind someone else inheriting and clear English

Nice to have

• Virtualisation certification such as VCP a data-centre certification or CompTIA ServerNetwork or CCNA
• Experience inside a service-provisioning organisation

Why this one is worth a look

It is a broad estate hypervisor storage fabric and the physical hall rather than onenarrow slice of it and the engineer who understands all three is the one everybody calls.