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Senior Infrastructure Consultant at Wanstor
London, United Kingdom
Job Descrption
Senior Infrastructure Consultant
Department: Infrastructure
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Wanstor London
Description
SummaryRare opportunity to further develop your career within the Infrastructure space.
Our Senior Infrastructure Engineers are responsible for maintaining and administering the backend infrastructures and platforms that support Wanstor and serve our hosted customer base.
Reliability, security and stability are of paramount importance in every aspect our work and this requires extensive technical knowledge in key subject areas including virtualisation, storage and datacentre hardware.
Key Responsibilities
Overview- Project delivery, consultancy and resource management
- Core infrastructure maintenance
- Solution design, presales and project management support
- Automation and internal efficiency development
Detailed Role Function
- Maintain and administer internal and hosting infrastructures with consideration to security, cross-platform integrations, performance, risk and resilience/availability.
- Take ownership of incidents impacting infrastructure availability and reliability, ensuring that they are seen through to conclusion.
- Thinking laterally in order to break a problem down into its component parts to identify and diagnose root causes. You will need to troubleshoot and identify problems across different technologies.
- Maintain ownership of infrastructure reporting platforms to facilitate billing and capacity management/forecasting.
- Ensure infrastructures and platforms remain compliant with Cyber Essentials Plus requirements through regular patching, upgrade and refresh of devices/applications.
- Onsite datacentre maintenance work including installation and decommissioning of servers, SANs and other enterprise hardware.
- Provide technical escalation assistance to the NOC and senior engineering teams where the hosting and internal infrastructures are concerned.
- Ensuring that monitoring and alerting systems for infrastructure are properly configured and maintained.
- Supporting the development of more junior colleagues through mentoring and sharing knowledge.
- Implementation, maintenance and development of core and datacentre systems, including maintaining current technical knowledge of and relevant certifications in:
- Windows Server, including Hyper V
- VMware vCenter and ESXi
- Veeam Backup and Replication
- iSCSI shared storage and SAN
- Maintaining up-to-date documentation on core infrastructure systems.
- This role involves some work outside of core business hours.
About You
You will be:- An analytical thinker - able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts explore and evaluate them systematically
- Creative problem solver – able to use logic as well as imagination, to determine practical and pragmatic solutions to overcome problems
- Strong communicator - able to get one’s message understood clearly by adopting a range of styles, tools and techniques appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information
- Manages relationships and team working - able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people. Works co-operatively with others to be part of a winning team
- Strategic thinker – able to identify a vision along with the plans, which need to be implemented to meet the end goal, evaluating situations, decisions and issues in the short, medium and long term.
- Influencer and persuasive - able to present sound and well-reasoned arguments to convince others. Adapts to the situation and can draw from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behaviour change
- Can demonstrate ability to work independently and safely in datacentre environments, including installing and configuring server and storage hardware. You will have excellent attention to detail and show excellent organisational skills.
- Experienced working with the following technologies in large and complex configurations
- Windows Server versions through to version 2022 and Hyper V.
- Specific SCVMM experience advantageous.
- VMware vCenter and ESXi
- Veeam Backup and Replication
- iSCSI shared storage and SAN
- Able to assess risk and control changes in large and complex infrastructures.
- Ownership of complex IT projects and support at a senior / technical lead level
Benefits
Wanstor is a sociable organisation and want to make sure everyone feels part of the team. Below are some of the perks we offer you:- 24 days annual leave, rising by 1 day each year to a maximum of 28 days + Bank Holidays
- We have regular lunch and learns from staff and external speakers
- We offer everyone 5 days a year to learn something new
- We provide 2 days to volunteer
- We are a friendly team and have several team events throughout the year organised by our social team
- We have a lovely office based in Borough, hosting a great coffee machine and a rooftop terrace
- Vitality health, to make sure you are at your best
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