Wintel and Virtualisation Engineer

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Wintel and Virtualisation Engineer

3 Months

Northampton

£450p/d Max

Role Responsibilities:

* Install, Configure, Upgrade and Maintain VMWare ESX servers

* Configuring the HA and DRs Clusters

* Work on major severity and complex server issues

* Backup and restore VMWare servers

* RCA preparation and meeting SLA for RCA submission

* Planning and implementing fixes / Patches

* Performance and capacity management on VMWare servers

* Complex Health Checking

* Analyze Problems

* Act on Day to Day House Keeping tasks by using tools & scripts

* Work with Change & Problem Management Tools

* Create regular reports for Management requirements

* Problem determination and resolution within Expected time frame

* Identify and recommend improvements to existing processes

* Configuration, Management and hosting of virtual environment on Hyper-v.

* Good experience on SCVMM Configuration, VM Template creation modification and deployment.

* Good understanding and experience on DR failover process from SCVMM perspective.

* Good exposure on Windows Failover clustering on Host and VM level.

* Good knowledge on management of Active directory, Group Policy, DHCP.

* Hands on knowledge on powershell scripting is added advantage.

Daily tasks:

* Identifying the failures on Wintel Job scheduler

* Installation, configuration of Servers on Hyper-v.

* Capacity management of Hyper-v hosts

* Troubleshooting Wintel issues which consist but not limited to: Active directory, DNS, DHCP, No-boot, Hyper-v host related issues, SCVMM related issues, Performance, Hardware, driver, firmware issues issues etc.

* Incident management and adhering to SLA's. Working on RCA's, doing problem management for recurring issues.

* Working with Hardware, OS vendors to troubleshoot and fix the issues.

* Change Management:

* Creation of virtual servers as per user requirement.

* Monthly patching of windows Host and Guests using Cluster Aware updating and WSUS.

* Performing the monthly capacity management of Host Cluster resources.

* Maintain the Asset tracker

* Adhere to change management policies and compliance and continuously work on improvement of process.

* Work in Sync with Storage, Network, Linux and application teams on various issues.