Data Center Engineer L3

Data Center Engineer L3 at Boardroom Appointments in South Africa.

Responsibilities

Key purpose

As a Data Center Engineer, you'll be responsible for managing and maintaining our data center. You will also help with the day-to-day operations of our data center by providing support to all areas of IT including VMware vSphere Virtualization, NSX, ESXi Hypervisor and Platform (vCPE), Storage Management, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Administration and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• Expert in deploying and managing services on VMware (vSphere) , Azure, AWS and other virtual platforms as needed
• Familiarity with managing workloads across multiple hybrid cloud environments
• Administration and Deployment of VMware vRealize Automation Platform
• Support and Management of VMwares Tanzu full-stack modernization suite (advantageous)
• Implementation and support of Morpheus Hybrid Cloud Application Orchestration
• Deployment, configuration, and maintenance of Linux and Windows servers
• Strong experience configuring, troubleshooting and tuning system hardware and software configurations for performance and reliability
• Diagnose complex systems issues with multiple influencing factors
• Incident response to system alerts, serve as point of escalation for after-hours issues
• Assist the support team with escalated customer issues
• Disaster/Recovery/Restore
• Experience with HP 3Par, EMC, Netapp Storage Platforms (advantageous)
• Monitoring tool and deployment automation development
• Server Administration

Requirements

• Degree/Diploma in Computer Science or System Administration or related field preferred, or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 3 - 5 years of experience with Intel platforms including a combination of the following: Windows Server Administration, Linux Server Administration, Storage Administration
• Experience with Local Area Networks (LAN)
• Experience with Wide Area Networks (WAN)
• Experience with Storage Area Networks
• Experience with Scripting/development in tools such as PowerShell, Bash, or Python (Highly advantageous)

About the Company

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