Storage Virtualisation Engineer

Virtualization Engineers x 2

+ 9 month contract

+ Hybrid working in Sheffield

+ £480 to £500 per day

Key Skills

• VMWare ESX Cluster
• Scripting & Automation

Virtualization Engineer will design, implement, and manage virtualization technologies and environments to optimize IT infrastructure and resource utilization. This role involves configuring and maintaining virtual machines, managing hypervisors, and ensuring the efficient operation of virtualized environments

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage virtualization solutions, including virtual machines and hypervisors.
• Monitor and optimize the performance of virtualized environments to ensure high availability and efficiency.
• Implement and maintain virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, Hyper V, KVM, Nutanix, OpenShift).
• Build/Rebuild new VMware ESX cluster environments using automation solutions to meet business requirements globally.
• Ability to quickly learn and implement VMware technology products and solutions and apply these skills rapidly and effectively using automation techniques.
• Experience in planning and implementing ESX Hardware evergreening activities on complex VMware environments including vendor management and coordination with data centre teams.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to virtualization infrastructure, including performance and connectivity problems.
• Develop and implement backup, disaster recovery, and security strategies for virtual environments.
• Collaborate with IT teams to integrate virtualization solutions with existing systems and applications.
• Stay updated with virtualization technologies, best practices, and industry trends.
• Good knowledge on change management practices and ability to raise quality changes.

Technical Skills

• Solution design, performance tuning and implementing disaster recovery solutions
• Deep expertise in core virtualization platform and storage solutions
• Proficiency with virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware, Hyper V) and related tools
• Deploy, configure and manage VMware, vSphere/vCenter, Hyper V and HCI platforms
• Strong understanding of storage and virtual networking concepts
• Experience with scripting and automation for managing virtual environment tasks using Python, PowerShell and automation tools like Ansible
• VMware PowerCLI experience
• Configuring HA & DRS clusters
• HA/Failover configuration and troubleshooting
• RDM management (including clustered VM guests)
• Monitor, troubleshoot and optimize virtualised environments for performance, capacity and resource efficiency
• Experience migrating VMs between multiple storage arrays
• Work in coordination with the hardware and storage team to diagnose and resolve issues

Certifications

• VCP Certified - industry standard certification in VMware

Soft Skills