Senior wintel engineer

Job Summary: To build, manage, maintain and support the migration of customers test and production systems on Windows, RHEL and VMware platforms. Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities: o Experience of large scale VMware migrations running mission critical customer applications. o Assemble and commission physical servers, blades and blade chassis technologies, plus supporting hardware when required. o Experience of large Data Centre installations and practices. o Systems Administration of Windows and VMware. o Design, planning, configuration, support, testing and documentation of new and existing Windows and VMware systems. o Design, planning, configuration, support, testing and documentation of backup, archive and restore using tools such as Veritas Backup Exec o Design, planning, configuration, support, testing and documentation of SAN systems, disk layout and configurations. o Disaster recovery and Business Continuity design, planning and testing. o Analyse and troubleshoot production faults and determine the most effective course as a subject matter expert in an expedited manner. o Implementing server hardening standards as advised by Information Security team. o Maintain register of IT assets. o In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, the job holder is required to perform other duties assigned by their manager from time-to-time, as may be reasonably required of them. Minimum Job Requirements: Skills knowledge and experience: Essential relevant and recent experience at an appropriate level in - Windows and VMware Systems Administration Ideally relevant and recent experience at an appropriate level in: o HPe Blade chassis and servers o Windows (Apply online only) operating systems o VMware 7/8 , Virtual centre and SRM o Anti-virus - McAfee Other: o SAN Storage - pref EMC PowerMax/Unity o Fibre channel networks/zoning - Cisco MDS o Backup Systems - EMC Data Domain/Backup Exec o VMware replication o PCI-DSS Environments Education and qualifications Essential: o Degree in IT/Computing, Computer Science, or equivalent education/experience Desirable: o Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer o VMWareVCP o ITIL certification