IT Virtualization Senior Administrator (VMware, Linux, Windows
Acolad
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Ensuring business continuity of application and support services in Acolad, concerning IT Virtualization operational efforts
- Participating in projects or efforts to develop and extend the services of Acolad, within the area of domain
- Implementing and monitoring of the appropriate quality and information security standards, linked to the assigned enterprise IT infrastructure (hardware and/or software, technology/systems/applications/tools) with respect to the QM and ISMS management systems in place
- Ensuring proper collaboration with other IT staff, other business units, suppliers or partners by using the appropriate communication flows
- Consulting for Service and Project Managers, Team Managers, fellow colleagues or customers/partners, within the area of domain
- Contributing in providing clean management of SLA's, both upstream and downstream
- Install, configure, monitor and maintain VMware ESX, ESXi, within vSphere/vCenter 5/6/7 environments and Microsoft Hyper-V
- Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Responsible for standardize the maintenance, provisioning and decommissioning processes
- Install, configure, monitor and maintain replication and backup systems, including storage appliances
- Install, configure, monitor and maintain Acolad cloud computing environments (IaaS, SaaS)
- Maintain accurate and up to date inventory, documentation and guidelines
- Incident and Change/Request management
- Minimum 2 years of experience with installing and maintaining virtual environments based on VMWare/ESXi, HyperV, OVM or similar
- Minimum 2 years of experience with server Operating Systems, including UNIX and Windows
- Two or more years of hands-on experience designing and deploying cloud architecture on cloud providers (IaaS), such as Amazon AWS and MS Azure
- Experience with Veeam backup products
- Experience working in vast networking and infrastructure landscapes
- Experience with Containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and with virtual desktop and virtual application cloud based solutions are a plus
- Skills & Knowledge
- Expertise with ITSM tools and ITIL v3 processes
- Excellent communication skills
- Comfort with conducting IT Virtualization operational routines
- Excellent problem-solving skills using whatever tools are available
- Build automate procedures using scripting tools and languages
- Enthusiasm towards working with the Virtualization area of IT
- Fluent English
- UNIX-based and Windows server OS
- Backup and restore solutions, including tape systems
- Servers, storage systems and connectivity
- Hypervisors
- IaaS
- Networking skills