Infrastructure/Virtualisation Consultant

Salt is currently recruiting for a globally recognised Financial services company in Belgium. Our customer is working on some new assignments in 2022 therefore is keen to hire a Infrastructure Consultant /Virtualisation (Nutanix, Vmware ,vxblock), with immediate effect.

This position is centered on the management, support and evolution of the Converged (Vxblock) and Hyper-Converged (Nutanix) infrastructures, Storage Area Network, Backup and Archive Solutions and Hypervisor technology (VMWARE) in a 24/7 production environment.

The role includes:

* Write/Troubleshoot scripts to automate the virtual infrastructure services
* Design, document, test and implement automation workflows. Perform flow maintenance once the solution is up-and running in production.
* Define and maintain standards for automation and orchestration within the team
* Propose harmonization of existing automation developments.
* Ensure existing automation flows are accommodated to satisfy new work requests.
* Support and align with the Infrastructure as a Code approach
* Create solutions based on REST API
* Take part in the Day-to-Day service support (incident, alerts, changes, …);
* Provide on-call support during out-of-business hours (24/7 watch duty); – THEY NEED TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS – they get paid more for it.
* Take part in the disaster recovery management for the virtual infrastructure (RDR, SWAP, LDR, …);
* Offer consulting services to “OS” teams (Windows, Linux, Office, Tandem, Mainframe), projects and other customers
* Support the private cloud strategy in the organization.

Technical skills required

• You are passionate about automation and DevOps.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in software development, service engineering or service operations
• Knowledge and experience in Ansible & Tower and Powershell.
• Hands-on technical experience creating process automation scripts using Python, REST APIs
• Experience with management of VMware virtualization environments.
• Experience with Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructures is a plus
• Experience with converged infrastructures (Vxblock) is a plus
• Experience with storage infrastructure management (VMAX, VNXe, SRDF, CLOUDIQ) is a plus