Spec: Platform Virtualisation Eng at Vodacom

Role purpose:

• Responsible for all aspects of Virtualisation (VMware and Container Platforms) supporting a hybrid/multi-cloud operating model
• Design, plan, manage, support, operate and oversee the organisation’s private cloud platforms
• Assist with managing, automating, maintaining, monitoring and securing of all private cloud platforms 
• In addition, the candidate in this role is responsible for providing technical virtualisation expertise to team members and other technical/business areas.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing the daily operations of our private cloud platforms, which may include patching, security updates, and vulnerabilities remediation  
• Developing / enhancing automation that enables management of our private cloud environment in an automated manner
• Provide operational support to application teams consuming the platform services
• Implement processes, standards, and governance of these platforms.  
• Implement and maintain RedHat Ansible for OpenShift configuration management.
• Incorporate group security controls and policy requirements into overall system design.
• Maintains strong relations with relevant stakeholders which include Architects, Solution Designers, project and operations teams and vendors
• Seeks opportunities to learn, automate, document, share, educate, and improve processes where appropriate

The ideal candidate for this role will have:
Technical / professional qualifications: 

• Grade 12 is essential 
• 3-year Bachelor’s Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent qualification is preferable
• At least 3 -5 years relevant work experience including the following:
• Working experience with virtualisation platforms such as OpenShift (required) and VMWare (required)
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, Terraform, etc desirable

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

• Automation-first mentality 
• Knowledge of software development methodologies e.g. AGILE
• Strong time-management skills, with the ability multi-task
• Ability to work to deadlines and manage team and business expectations
• Excellent analytical, technical, and problem solving skills, with high-levels of creativity
• Experience in Redhat OpenShift and VMWare, as well as other virtualization platforms preferred
• Automation Experience (Ansible, Terraform) 
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and Ansible preferred, CloudFormation, Chef)
• Strong creativity, analysis, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions 
• Experience of current and emerging virtualization, infrastructure, and cloud and containers technologies and architectures, such as Windows, Linux/UI, AWS, Openstack, Docker, K8S etc.
• Experience working with programming and scripting languages, such as Python