Technical Lead Cloud / Freelance / Brussels (Belgium)

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I am currently looking on th ebehalf of my client, a Technical Lead to join a long term project (18 months).

Purpose: Technical Lead is an individual contributor role who will provide technical expertise to prepare, participate and complete a customer migration project from legacy platform to Hyper-Converged Infrastructure based on VMware using Nutanix on HPe Proliant and Dell/EMC VBlock technology with a duration of up to 1 year.

Key activities

* Migration - attend customer site(s) to audit, prepare for migration and perform post migration analysis where required.

* Compose, publish and manage IT documentation e.g. Runbook

* Participation in the planning phases of the migration projects

* Input to Technical PM regarding the production of runbooks, rollback plans and validation test plans for each migration batch under their responsibility in collaboration with the Customer test lead

* The execution of the assigned virtual-to-virtual and physical-to-virtual migration batches as defined with Customer propose methodology and best practices.

* The testing and validation post-migration in coordination with Customer staff. Production of the associated post migration validation reports

* Any hangover to operations tasks associated with the migrated assets

* The delivery of knowledge transfer workshops as and where applicable

* Working on a project to deploy two specific new infrastructure platforms across three data center's in Brussels and Paris.

Skills/Experience/Qualification

10 years of experience in IT infrastructure domain required.

certifications: Ideally certified in the following: Dell/EMC VCE-CIA, Microsoft Windows MCSE, VMware VCF5/6, Linux, KVM, ITIL, Project Management (Foundation)

* Domain Experience:

Minimum 5 years' experience in managing operations of virtualized platforms.

Knowledge of Dell/EMC Vblock infrastructure technology

Knowledge in Hyper-Converged Infrastructure based on Nutanix software and HPe Proliant Hardware

Experience in Intel x86 based workloads currently running on customer legacy systems including virtual and physical Microsoft Windows Servers, RedHat Linux Servers and a range of virtual appliances.

Experience in Virtualization (minimum VCP or equivalent), Linux/Windows system administration (MCSE).

* Experience with Both MySQL, MS SQL Server, MS SQL Server administration, RDB , Mongo DB, Oracle etc.

* Experience supporting multi-tier application stacks.

* Understanding of application, server, and network security is highly desired.

* Experience on Active Directory/ LDAP administration,

* Minimum 3 years' experience in performing workload migrations (V2V, P2V) and storage

migrations.

* Experience in transitioning of virtualized platform from build to operations and providing early life support.

* Experience in upgrading various components of virtualized platform at hardware and virtual layers.

* Tools and process:

* Thorough understanding of ITIL Incident/Change/Problem management processes.

* Experience in Root Cause Analysis preparation and presentation to customers.

* Experience in working on ITSM tools such as Remedy and ServiceNow

* Technical skills:

* Experience in MS SOL, Oracle, My SOL, Mongo DB,RDB

* Experience in VMware vCenter, vCloud Director, VR Ops, VRA and Zerto.

* Very good technical experience in EMC Storage, NetApp Storage, EMC Avamar, EMC Networker, Veritas NetBackup.

* Very good technical experience in Hyper-Converged Infrastructure based on Nutanix software and HPe Proliant Hardware

* Very good technical experience in Dell/EMC Vblock infrastructure technology

* Experience with Windows and Linux.

* OpenStack awareness and or understanding.

* Experience in working with tools such as Double Take Migration, Double Take Availability, Zerto, Veeam and Plate Spin.

Location: Belgium - Brussels - but you'll have to travel to Paris (France)

Rate: upon profile

Duration: 18 months

Start date: 02/01/19