Senior Engineer (Private Cloud Virtualisation)

Senior Engineer (Private Cloud Virtualisation)

• Working Location: Braine LAlleud, Belgium
  
• Security Clearance: NATO Secret
  
• Language: High proficiency level in English language
  

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION:

Essential Qualifications/Experience:

VMware Certified Advanced Professional and vSAN certified professional

ITIL Foundation certification

Sound practical experience in the architecture, design, implementation, support, testing and maintenance of Private Cloud Infrastructure Hosting including virtual infrastructure, virtual machine provisioning, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), composable infrastructure

Extensive hands-on systems engineer professional experience and subject matter expertise in a production environment with VMware infrastructure products such as VMware vSphere, vSAN, vRealize Operations managers, VMware SRM, vSphere Replication and a good level of exposure and or very good understanding of other products like VMware VCF, vRealize Automation and NSX

Professional experience in large Private Cloud IaaS cloudprovider, managing large quantities of VMware Virtual Machines (5000 or more) and physical servers (blade & rack mount)

Professional experience designing, implementing and executing Private Cloud DR/BC exercise plans with hardware or software replication (eg: vSphere replication) and failover/failback orchestrations tools like VMware SRM

Experience:

Working with Active Directory, Windows Server and Linux RedHat, IPAM Solutions

Auditing service costs, providing detailed cost analysis with breakdowns and reports for management teams

As technical lead in IaaS related projects from design to implementation and stakeholder management

Pricing project CAPEX and OPEX costs

Carrying out IaaS service audit costs

Experience with configuration management and automation tools (Ansible is preferred)

Proficiency in PowerShell scripting

Track record in delivering continual service improvements

Proven experience and track record developing and maintaining data driven unitized Private Cloud IaaS cost model framework

Professional experience and/or good understanding of showback/chargeback cost models and configuration management databases

Proven experience in driving opportunities to increase efficiency, documenting and transferring cost model knowledge throughout the organization

Track record documenting current design & configuration and to develop/maintain Standard Operation Procedures/Instructions and training guidance

ITIL Service Operation knowledge

A Master of Science (MSc) degree at a nationally recognized/certified University in a related subject and 5 years post-related experience

Or a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree at a nationally recognized/certified University in a related subject and 7 years post related experience

Or exceptionally, the lack of a university/college degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidates particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCI Agency; that is, at least 12 years extensive and progressive expertise in the duties related to the function of the post

Professional experience managing enterprise block, file and object-based storage and backup solutions

IT Architecture and design and knowledge of design/architecture tools and methodologies

Knowledge of Cyber Security techniques to protect information

Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements

Knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organization

Level-3 full life cycle of Private Cloud Infrastructure support including virtual infrastructure, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), composable infrastructure, Windows and Unix/Linux platforms: architecture, administration, security audit support, hosting utilizations/capacity planning and adjusting hosting requirements as well as monitor and audit system utilization, and performance

Lead activities in the areas of design, engineering, implementation, operation and integration of Private Cloud Virtualization. Key areas of expertise are:

Data Centre Concepts, Technologies, Operations and Services (IaaS Private Cloud)

Central enterprise administration of Private Cloud infrastructure hosting

Private Cloud Infrastructure disaster recovery procedures

Migration, adaptation, operation, maintenance and tuning for all IaaS inside the classified/unclassified NATO and new upcoming networks

Analysis and implementation of user requirements

Maintenance of the infrastructure hardware and implementation of changes

Identification operational problems and contribution to their resolution

Securing Core Services

Support configuration management efforts and use of Private Cloud IaaS configuration management and automation tools (Ansible preferably) for continual IaaS hosting service improvements

Develop and maintain a data driven unitized Private Cloud IaaS cost model framework in coordination with other Agency stakeholders for determining associated hosting costs to deliver projects and services using supporting cost modelling tools such as VMware vRealize Operations Manager or similar where possible. Document and transfer Private Cloud IaaS cost model knowledge throughout the organization

Provides detailed cost analysis, includes breakdowns of project costs, service cost audits, and identifies opportunities to increase operational efficiency and decrease hosting costs without sacrificing customer satisfaction

Leads Private Cloud IaaS projects and continual service improvement initiatives from design engineering to implementation and stakeholder management to support NATO operations.

Give technical briefings and presentations; write and/or review technical reports, designs and point-papers for publication

Provide personal, technical and professional support and guidance for section staff and in the development and tutoring of any subordinate staff as an integral part of their career development

Performs other duties and support other projects and daily operations as may be required

Might need to work on scheduled maintenances, service-affecting activities and contingency work outside of regular business hours or being on-call after working hours on weekends

Might need to travel and work in SHAPE/Mons, HQ Brussells or any other datacenters if/when required