Assistant Lead Engineer - Virtualisation (Ref 26582)

Responsibilities • Lead and manage infrastructure projects from inception to completion, ensuring project deliverables are met within agreed timelines, scope, and quality standards. • Maintain and support day-to-day infrastructure operations to ensure system availability, performance, and reliability. • Implement preventive maintenance activities and continuous service improvements. • Design, implement, administer, and optimise enterprise virtualisation environments. • Manage virtual machines, clusters, resource allocation, high availability, and disaster recovery solutions. • Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and infrastructure upgrades. • Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise storage systems and Network Attached Storage (NAS) platforms. • Manage storage provisioning, capacity planning, performance monitoring, and storage optimisation. • Ensure data availability, integrity, and redundancy through appropriate storage architecture and best practices. • Design and maintain enterprise backup architectures and data protection strategies. • Implement backup, restoration, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions. • Monitor backup success rates, troubleshoot failures, and ensure compliance with recovery objectives (RPO/RTO). • Periodically perform backup restoration testing and disaster recovery exercises. • Coordinate with stakeholders, vendors, engineers, and operational teams throughout the project lifecycle. • Develop implementation plans, technical documentation, operational procedures, and handover materials. • Conduct system testing, validation, and acceptance activities prior to project go-live. • Ensure smooth transition and knowledge transfer to the operations team upon project completion. • Ensure compliance with operational standards, security policies, and best practices. • Collaborate with internal stakeholders, business users, vendors, and technology partners. • Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and knowledge sharing to team members when required. Requirements • At least 5 - 10 years’ experience in design, developing, implementing, automates, project management and maintaining IT systems • Strong project ownership with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously. • Technical Skills: Enterprise Virtualization Platforms (e.g., VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV), Enterprise Storage Technologies (SAN, NAS, Unified Storage Solutions), Backup and Recovery Solutions (e.g., Commvault, Veeam, NetBackup, Rubrik). • Experience in Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity Planning, Windows and Linux Server Administration, Infrastructure Monitoring, Capacity Planning, and Performance Optimization. • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, strong documentation and technical reporting skills. • Strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities. • ITIL Foundation Certification • Relevant certifications: Microsoft, Oracle, RedHat, Nutanix, VMware, Dell, Veritas Licence no: 12C6060