Infrastructure Engineer (VM ware)

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Infrastructure / Storage / Virtualisation Analyst required for a FTSE 250 engineering support services organisation based in Portsmouth. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of an organisation recognised for their outstanding performance and delivery of subject matter expertise

In this role you will monitor and maintain the Storage and Virtual infrastructures, encompassing Core EMC Storage, VMware hypervisor environments. In support of these activities Capacity management will also be a requirement.

Responsibilities

* Monitor and maintain Core Storage infrastructure to Operational standards

* Monitoring and Management of the core VMware infrastructure, to include performance and capacity management

* Production of Operational and Technical Documentation to agreed standards.

Key Skills

* Working knowledgeofVMwarevSphere 5/5.5/6

* vMotion & Storage vMotion

* DRS

* SRM protection

* Snapshot management

* P2V

* Working knowledge and operational experience of at least one of the following :

* EMC Storage block including VNX , Xtremio, Vplex products

* EMC Isilon NAS (or similar scale out 1PB+ NAS)

* Large scale VMWare infrastructures (250+ Virtual machines minimum, 2000+ preferred)

* SAN Fibre Switching and zoning principles (Brocade or Cisco)

* Lun Masking and host configuration

* common RAID technologies

* Snap shot technologies

* NAS Cif shares and replication

* Understanding of IT management processes

* VMware certified professional (Desirable)

* EMC certified Storage administrator (Desirable)

* CISCO UCS blade servers and UCS manager software (Desirable)

* Any experience in Vrealise automation or other SDDC software (Desirable)

* Ability to travel to other sites.

* UK Driving License required.

* Work out of hours for planned maintenance and as part of an on call rota.

What we offer

* 25 days holiday + bank holidays

* Pension

* Life Assurance

* Share Scheme

* Flexible Benefits: Childcare vouchers, Health Care Cash Plan, Bike Scheme etc.

* Free Parking

* Free and regular shuttle bus connecting to local bus and train stations and the city centre.

* Excellent location with shops, coffee shops, restaurants, a florist, hairdressers, beauty salon and nursery.