Virtualisation Engineer (offline)

About the project: We are looking to expand our team with a Senior Window Server Engineer. Successful candidate will become a part of a client team responsible for all aspects of the Windows Server estate across the client's organization
About our team: Rapidly expanding group developing and supporting a range of client projects.
About working environment: Our team primary locations are Kiev, Warsaw. We are working remotely in client environment. Currently the team operates fully in WFH mode.

Responsibilities
OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT/SECTION:

Datacentre Virtualisation are responsible for supporting and maintaining VMWare and Nutanix technologies for Bank EMEA and Securities International

The main purpose of the role:

· Responsible for managing, maintaining, enhancing Virtualisation technologies across the BANK.

· Member of L3 BAU and Project support team providing subject matter expertise and ultimate escalation

Primary:

· Implement tools and processes for efficient and effective operational management of the environment
· Define and implement service catalogue whilst ensuring workload is kept within defined parameters
· Produce clear supporting documentation to provide first and second-line of support
· Provide deep technical assessments of ticket queues to identify and address issues in a holistic manner
· Perform root cause analysis to resolve any technical issues that escalate
· Strive to permanently eliminate issues through automation opportunities and sustainable long-term fixes
· Partner with SRE team to identify areas for continuous improvement, automation and self-service
· Ensure all project / investment workloads are delivered according to plans and budget defined
· Liaise with Infrastructure Control and IT Risk teams to satisfy internal and external audit requests
· Manage the lifecycle of virtualisation products and maintain strong relationships with vendor partners
· Effectively manage Vulnerability Management and Security Compliance remediation agenda
· Deputise for team lead when required to do so and act-up accordingly
· Take part in On-Call & weekend work rotation; triaging and addressing production issues as they arise
· Identify cost saving and optimisation opportunities across the group
· Build strong working relationships across the organisation
· Adhere to the core values of the bank

Secondary:
· Perform daily health and compliance checks for all systems as required
· Ensure all Virtualisation systems are backed up successfully and any issues are promptly resolved
· Validate monitoring alerts and batch job failures are detected promptly and satisfactorily resolved
· Ensure sufficient capacity is available to accommodate drive growth
· Respond to emails sent to the team distribution list / mailboxes in a timely manner
· Handle incidents and requests with efficiency and a “customer first” mindset
· Maintain Virtualisation platforms in a highly available, reliable, secure and performant manner
· General Virtualisation maintenance activities · Provide technical support to application support and development teams
· Provide consultancy to application support and development teams
· Execute disaster recovery procedures when necessary and take part in regular DR tests
· Ensure patches and security updates are applied as per defined policies
· Develop and maintain all operational procedures to ensure they are current and accurate

Skills
Must have

Essential:

· Current and previous versions of VMWare and Nutanix and related technologies
· Scripting and programming languages such as PowerShell, Bash and Python
· Hardware troubleshooting and fault diagnosis (Dell, Cisco UCS, IBM, HP)
· Ability to tune Network, Storage, Server and Virtualisation layers for optimal performance and reliability
· Networking Protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLAN’s)
· Disk provisioning, expansion and de-provisioning activities
· Server snapshot administration and other OS related virtualisation tasks
· DNS and IP address administration
· Firewall configuration activities
· Fluent in Backup and Recovery processes and procedures
· Advanced knowledge of Clustering, High-Availability, Replication and Disaster Recovery techniques
· Excellent Performance Tuning skills, in-depth knowledge of system internals
· Ability to interpret and implement CIS security hardening recommendations in a controlled manner
· Acute awareness of Security and Auditing requirements in a regulated environment

Highly Desirable:

· AWX / Ansible Tower
· Git, Ansible, Terraform and TeamCity
· Serena Deployment Automation (SDA) and Jenkins
· Kubernetes and Docker
· “Infrastructure as Code” Principles and practices.
· “Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Development (CD)” Principles and practices
· Agile, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps Principles and practices
· Active Directory, LDAP and Kerberos
· IBM Tivoli / Netcool · Cloud computing - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings across Azure, AWS, GCP and Oracle · Knowledge of data security governance and regulations such as GDPR and SOX

Nice to have

Desirable:

· Current and previous versions of Microsoft Windows Server and related technologies
· Current and previous versions of RHEL, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris and related technologies
· Dell EMC PowerStore (SAN) and Isilon (NAS)
· Rubrik, EMC Networker, Data Domain and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
· CyberArk
· Splunk
· Qualys
· Cisco Tetration
· ServiceNow
· JIRA and Confluence

Languages
English: B2 Upper Intermediate

Seniority
Senior

About Luxoft

Luxoft is a high-end application outsourcing provider of choice and a trusted technology advisor to Global 2000 and medium-sized growth companies that apply compelling technologies to obtain leadership positions in their respective markets.
Luxoft today finds the Best talents, proposes career growth & employment benefits. Our teams are involved in high complicity & innovative projects for the Top leaders companies around the Globe.

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