*about us*:
*antelope consulting is an it consultancy and outsourcing firm based in the uk*.
it has been providing *it and database solutions* since 2004 predominantly in the financial marketplace.
put simply, antelope consulting can piece together all the elements for you.
by using its *significant experience in this area*, we can significantly de-risk your project, along with providing guarantees of performance, stability, and scalability that few companies can provide.
*our proposal*:
the senior* cloud and data center engineer* manages and supports our client's virtualized infrastructure stack, with compute based on* *openstack and vmware vsphere and storage based on netapp / ceph, as well as cloud environments, primarily running on google cloud platform and iaas/paas providers, from development through to ownership and support of production environments.
additionally, the engineer provides support with hardware purchases and deployment in different environments.
the role requires* network knowledge* and the ability to work with* network, system administration departments to coordinate tasks and projects.
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*scripting, automation, diagnostics, and performance tuning* are all responsibilities of the senior cloud and data center engineer.
*your every day*:
- maintain and support a large virtualized environment that hosts 2000+ vms running vmware vsphere / vsan 7.0+.
- deploy and manage vmware vsphere clusters in production, corporate, and test environments.
- deploy and manage hpe server hardware, including maintenance and troubleshooting.
- manage ceph storage clusters; perform maintenance and troubleshoot ceph-related issues.
- capacity planning for the compute and storage infrastructure, able to define technical bills of materials.
- assist in designing, testing, implementation, and documentation of new infrastructure stacks.
- deploy and manage netapp shared storage devices, including maintenance and incident resolution.
- conduct preventive maintenance on infrastructure to ensure efficient operations.
- maintain and support a backup infrastructure based on veeam b&r 11+.
manage backup infrastructure such as proxies, repositories, jobs, following best practices.
- management of cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as a service solutions.
- interact with third party vendors & contractors, such as data center support and remote hands engineers.
work with stakeholders, project managers, and other teams to ensure system designs meet business requirements.
- participate on shared team on-call rotation.
*it could be a perfect match if you have*:
- excellent *english and spanish* verbal and written communication skills.
- *5+ years* of overall it experience with enterprise-level *virtualized environments*, designing, implementing and maintaining a *vmware vsphere ecosystem*.
- server *hardware knowledge* and experience, firmware, ilo/bmc, bios, pxe, raid.
- experience in *data center operations* such as remote access, inventory management, rack layouts, structured cabling, hot/cold aisles, security and power.
- working knowledge of* networking*, including routing, switching and firewalls, subnets, addressing schemes, access rules, vlans.
- ability to *creat*e and/or* *update processes, documentation and complex* *diagrams.
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- experience operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting *ceph clusters.
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- solid understanding of *linux/unix* administration.
- working knowledge of* openstack* environments.
- excellent *troubleshooting skills*, being able to navigate complex network and service topologies to* track down issues*.
- experience working in an* itil-based organization*.
*it would be a plus*:
- working knowledge of docker, kubernetes is a plus.
- vcp-dv certificate is a plus.
- experience with automation and infra-as-code tools such as terraform, ansible is a plus.
- canonical/ubuntu experience is a plus.
*what do we offer?
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- diverse and international team
- fantastic opportunity for self-development, progress, and learning new technologies
- usd payment
- training
- flexible working hours
- 100% remote position