Robert Walters is a global, specialist professional recruitment consultancy.
"Our story begins in 1985, when our CEO, Robert Walters, opened the first office in Central London. Rob has led the company ever since and has the same passion and commitment today.
Over the last 30 years the business has grown and so has our ambition. We now operate across 2...
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We are looking for a hosting engineer who can key role of driving automation within a team of highly skilled engineers to deliver IT operational excellence. The role will suit a hands-on DevOps oriented Infrastructure engineer looking to grow their career by assuming responsibility of key Infrastructure artefacts.
The role will report to the Hosting lead and will play an essential part in ensuring that the current Infrastructure landscape is operating at the correct levels following DevOps best practises.
The successful candidate will be an effective communicator and collaborator, have high attention to detail and a pragmatic and “can-do” attitude. They will have experience in working with Agile technologies and will have good knowledge of scripting methodologies and techniques.
Primarily responsible for driving automated management of the infrastructure hosting estate (Cisco UCS, Virtualisation, Storage, Backups and Linux) using tools such as Ansible and GitHub
Work closely and collaboratively with various stakeholders to ensure that deliverables are in alignment with DevOps capabilities/best practises
Manage support and escalations, incidents and root cause analysis.
Support, influence and guide external service providers/internal work streams to a successful outcome.
Develop and implement administration standards and procedures.
Be the prime advocate for automation and Infrastructure as Code
Skills
Solid understanding of Vmware VSphere administration with at least 7 but preferably 10 years hands-on experience in an enterprise environment
Hands-on experience with Cisco UCS and MDS
Experience with Storage technologies, such as fibre channel networks, NFS and object storage
Experience with Powershell or other scripting languages
Experience with Red Hat Linux (RHEL 7, 8 and 9) administration
Experience with DevOps toolset; Ansible, Git, GitHub, etc
Solid understanding of network technologies like firewalls, switching, routing, TCP/IP, WAN, LAN
Exposure to Kubernetes and containerised environments are desirable
Ability to think strategically and perform risk analysis
Ability to accept change and adapt organizational change and shifting priorities
Good communication skills with the ability to convey technical issues to all levels
Builds and maintains strong relationships with leaders, customers, and team members.
The desired candidate will have
Experience with Terraform
Working knowledge of hybrid environments, preferably Azure.
Project management experience
Understanding of Intel Windows server technology (Windows 2019/2022)
Understanding of current and emerging Microsoft Technologies
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