Senior Platform and Compute Engineer

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Logicalis Full time

Job Description

Why choose Logicalis?

It's not just IT solutions, It's IT global know-how Logicalis is an international multi-skilled solution provider providing digital enablement services to help customers harness digital technology and innovative services to deliver powerful business outcomes.

Our customers span industries and geographical regions; and our focus is to engage in the dynamics of our customers' vertical markets; including financial services, TMT (telecommunications, media and technology), education, healthcare, retail, government, manufacturing and professional services, and apply the skills of our 4, employees in modernising key digital pillars; data centre and cloud services, security and network infrastructure, workspace communications and collaboration, data and information strategies, and IT operation modernisation. We are the advocates for our customers for some of the world's leading technology companies including Cisco, HPE, IBM, CA Technologies, NetApp, Microsoft, Oracle, VMware and ServiceNow

Logicalis employees are innovative, smart, entrepreneurial and customer centric, with a shared ambition of making Logicalis the worlds leading IT Solutions provider

We offer speedy decision-making, opportunities for personal development, and a supportive, inclusive environment that celebrates our diversity.

Join us and become a part of something epic

ROLE PURPOSE

The Platform and Compute Support Team has responsibilities focused on the smooth running of our enterprise cloud, managed private clouds, managed services customer environments and internal cloud environments ensuring server, storage, network, and hypervisor availability is maintained at the highest level. This is achieved by performing routine maintenance, testing failover and backup, implementing best practices etc.

As a part of the Platform and Compute Support team, you will be responsible for working on incidents, problems, requests and change requests, always adhering to ITIL principles. You will also be required to support a 24/7 Shift Team out of hours as needed on standby rotation. You might be required to work on a staggered shift schedule to cover support for offshore customers in different time zones. You will work alongside Project, Transition, and Service Delivery management teams to assist in the smooth transition and acceptance of new customers and technologies into support.

As a Senior in the team, you will be considered an escalation point, as such you will be expected to participate in high-impact, high-urgency incidents where prompt resolution and root cause analysis is required. You are expected to contribute to process improvements. You might occasionally lead the work of small project teams. You are expected to provide informal guidance to less experienced engineers and be able to work with minimal guidance.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

Maintain service availability for customers by performing routine maintenance, failover testing, implementing best practices, pro-active monitoring of alerts and status changes etc. Perform project related duties with regards to new and changing infrastructure deployments as required. Regularly updating customers on progress of incidents, problems and changes by telephone and email. Regularly updating Logicalis ticketing system Service Now / Autotask with quality notes detailing progress and actions completed on open incidents, problems, and change requests. Completing customer Change Requests, including impact and risk analysis, implementing out of hours where required. Provide technical consultancy to all other areas of the business to ensure the integrity, performance and support of new opportunities that involve Platform and Compute Support. Provide prompt senior technical assistance on customer incidents when Tier 1 skills have exhausted a resolution attempts. Find technical solutions to problems where necessary and practical, without compromising the commercial viability of current and future platform solutions. To stay up to date and accredited within the current technologies. Capturing repeat faults and undertaking root cause analysis. Proactive identification of fault trends. Where required perform the Lead Engineer role for some of Logicalis key customers on a support, service transition and project basis. Work as part of the on-call rota and ensure resources are always available 24X7 and respond within SLA time frames to any calls from out of hours. Attend the Change Advisory Board for customer change requests. Attend meetings and working parties to represent Platform and Compute Support where necessary. Attend customer meetings to provide technical consultancy, usually by VC but occasionally on site. Attend customer sites for onsite project and support related activities. Undertake technical audits for key customers where issues have been identified and as part of the Service Improvement Process. Work closely with the solutions area of the business regarding developing new services and proposal. Ensure all Customer documentation is kept up to date. Providing input to customer facing Technical Incident Reports. Help identify gaps in existing technical documentation, knowledge and skills. Creating and maintaining of technical customer documentation.

PERSON REQUIREMENTS:

QUALIFICATIONS

Graduate or qualified by experience with ideal certifications such as:

Microsoft Azure AZ- - Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-) VMware VCP – VCP-DCV 6.x, 7.x, 8.x Huawei Storage HCIA, HCIP Hitachi Storage Dell EMC Dell Server certifications an advantage HPE Server certifications an advantage NetApp NCTA, NCDA, NAHSE, NCSE, NCIE SAN an advantage ITIL Foundation

EXPERIENCE

Essential (3 – 4 Years)VMware vSphere 6,x – 7.xMicrosoft Hyper-VEnterprise storage such as Dell, HPE, IBM, EMC, Huawei, HitachiExperience working on SAN Fabric Switches. (Brocade and Cisco)Server hardware support such as Dell, HP, IBMAzure IAAS Desirable (Any)Azure AVDSynology StorageExperience of administering/troubleshooting Windows ServerExperience of administering/troubleshooting LinuxExposure to managing PCI-DSS compliant environmentsVMware SRM, vSphere Replication Experience working on Cisco Nexus SwitchesExperience working on VMware NSX and vCloud DirectorScripting knowledge. PowerShell, power CliKnowledge on container technologies such as KubernetesCisco UCSVeeam BackupCommvault (Metallic in particular)

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