Assistant Lead Engineer - Virtualisation (Ref 26582)

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage infrastructure projects from inception to completion, ensuring project deliverables are met within agreed timelines, scope, and quality standards.
• Maintain and support day-to-day infrastructure operations to ensure system availability, performance, and reliability.
• Implement preventive maintenance activities and continuous service improvements.
• Design, implement, administer, and optimise enterprise virtualisation environments.
• Manage virtual machines, clusters, resource allocation, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and infrastructure upgrades.
• Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise storage systems and Network Attached Storage (NAS) platforms.
• Manage storage provisioning, capacity planning, performance monitoring, and storage optimisation.
• Ensure data availability, integrity, and redundancy through appropriate storage architecture and best practices.
• Design and maintain enterprise backup architectures and data protection strategies.
• Implement backup, restoration, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
• Monitor backup success rates, troubleshoot failures, and ensure compliance with recovery objectives (RPO/RTO).
• Periodically perform backup restoration testing and disaster recovery exercises.
• Coordinate with stakeholders, vendors, engineers, and operational teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Develop implementation plans, technical documentation, operational procedures, and handover materials.
• Conduct system testing, validation, and acceptance activities prior to project go-live.
• Ensure smooth transition and knowledge transfer to the operations team upon project completion.
• Ensure compliance with operational standards, security policies, and best practices.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, business users, vendors, and technology partners.
• Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and knowledge sharing to team members when required.

Requirements

• At least 5 - 10 years’ experience in design, developing, implementing, automates, project management and maintaining IT systems
• Strong project ownership with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Technical Skills: Enterprise Virtualization Platforms (e.g., VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV), Enterprise Storage Technologies (SAN, NAS, Unified Storage Solutions), Backup and Recovery Solutions (e.g., Commvault, Veeam, NetBackup, Rubrik).
• Experience in Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity Planning, Windows and Linux Server Administration, Infrastructure Monitoring, Capacity Planning, and Performance Optimization.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, strong documentation and technical reporting skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
• ITIL Foundation Certification
• Relevant certifications: Microsoft, Oracle, RedHat, Nutanix, VMware, Dell, Veritas

Licence no: 12C6060