System Engineering Specialist

Responsibilities

• Configuration/Troubleshooting of Virtual environments: VMware vSphere, vSAN, Horizon; Server management, Operating System (OS) knowledge (UNIX, Linux, Windows);
• Design, implementation and administration of backup and restore on solutions like VEEAM and StoreOnce;
• RedHat OCP deployed on prem or in cloud (Azure).
• Administration of servers, blade systems and composable infrastructure;
• Administration of Storage systems on traditional SAN, CEPH and VSAN;
• Managing OCP platform in DEVOPS mode with related supporting systems like Red Hat Service Mesh, GitHub, Helm, GitOps, Ansible Automation, Platform, Kafka;
• Development, execution and troubleshooting of Ansible and Powershell scripts;
• PKI and certificate administration;
• Administration of monitoring systems like Nagios, Splunk;
• Administration of Oracle infrastructure, namely EXADATA and ZDRLA;
• Administration of mail servers and mail relays (postfix), anti-virus and anti-spam;
• Centralized deployment of software and updates.
• IT support, design and troubleshooting ranging from large Server, SAN farms to complex platforms;

Education

Minimum 4 years of relevant education (master or equivalent) after the secondary

Experience

Minimum 9 years of relevant professional experience.

Desired Technologies & Skills

• Advanced knowledge and experience with VMWare (vSphere, vSAN, Horizon);
• Knowledge and experience with managing Oracle HW;
• Knowledge and advanced experience in Redhat, Windows OS administration of large farms;
• Active Directory (AD) / LDAP and Keycloak Management;
• Network Attached Storage (NAS) and distributed file systems;
• Centralized IT security policy management;
• Knowledge and experience in administration of servers, blade systems and composable infrastructure;
• Knowledge and experience in administration of Backup & Storage systems (VEEAM, StoreOnce, vSAN, traditional SAN and CEPH);
• Advanced script development and troubleshooting skills (Ansible, Powershell);
• Experience in software compliance monitoring and enforcement;
• Advanced knowledge of OCP platform administration with supporting tools like Red Hat Service Mesh, GitHub, Helm, GitOps, Ansible Automation Platform, Kafka;
• Knowledge to support mail servers and mail relays (postfix), antivirus and anti-spam;
• Basic knowledge on DB systems, MS SQL, Oracle and Elastic search;
• Knowledge and experience with monitoring and observability systems (configuration, customisation, further development), Prometheus, Grafana, ElasticSearch, Fluentd, Kibana, Jaeger, NAGIOS and Splunk;
• Excellent analysis and problem solving skills;
• Experience in managing highly available environments and multiple site support;
• Familiar with ITIL/ITIL V3 processes, in particular incident, change, capacity and configuration management.