VMware Engineer

£580 - £640 per day

Inside IR35

DV Cleared

Corsham Based - Onsite Role

Overview

The VMware Engineer will support the technical team responsible for the design, development, documentation, building and validation of the core virtual estate which form the backbone of the product Platform. The detailed responsibilities of the team include:

The design, development, building and validation of all virtualisation components which form part of the Platform.

Production and review of all levels of design artefacts.

Supporting wider system testing activities.

Working with Service Management to resolve issues.

Essential skills, qualifications, and experience

Demonstrable experience of at least 3 years within the industry with detailed knowledge and understanding, of the design, implementation, and troubleshooting of the following:

VMware ESXi

Distributed Virtual Switches

Distributed Resource Scheduler

Distributed Power Management

VMware vSAN

Hybrid and All Flash storage configurations

VMware vCenter

High Availability;Clustering;

Cross-site failure and resiliency

VMware NSX

Microsegmentation Firewalling

Cross Site VC NSX

VMware Horizon

AppVolumes.

AppStacks.

At least one professional Virtualisation certification that has been obtained within the last five years, i.e. VMware VCP (VMware vCenter Certified Professional) or similar.

Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

Strong critical thinking and analytical skills to solve problems and propose new ideas.

Competency in MS Office Suite.

Desirable skills, qualifications, and experience

Working within the public sector, preferably Defence, and ideally with Defence Digital (formerly ISS).

Delivering accredited secure solutions within the UK Public Sector.

Delivering in Agile (SAFE4) and Waterfall projects.

Large Virtualisation infrastructure environments that operate at scale.

Knowledge of The Atlassian toolset (JIRA and Confluence) to record and document work.

Networking certification, CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate), VMware Network Virtualisation (NSX-DC) or similar.

A Computer Science university-based education at Bachelors or Masters level.

Experience in developing secure architecture within a multi-tenanted environment.

Chartered Engineer Status