IT Architect

Our client is actively searching for a **Principal Systems Engineer/ IT Architect - Virtualization and Hybrid Cloud **to join their team

If you are a dynamic individual seeking a new career opportunity, read further

Reporting to Head of Systems and Platform, you will be part of highly motivated and passionate IT team to explore and deploy innovative technologies to achieve data centre transformational goals of moving towards a more agile, secure, operational efficient and sustainable organization.

The role and responsibilities of the Virtualization and Hybrid Cloud Engineer include the following

**The responsibilities of this role are**:

- Analyse, Design, Plan, Enhance and Implement VMware virtualize infrastructure, Hybrid Cloud infrastructure and Cloud Management Platform. Identify trends and emerging issues potentially impacting our service delivery and, where necessary, make recommendation on alternative courses of action or to rectify the issues promptly.
- Conduct capacity planning, infrastructure performance analysis and optimization, introduce improvements and enhancement to existing infrastructure and processes.
- Provide technical solution, design best practices and response to project team enquiry for Compute resources and operational support requirement leveraging on on-premises virtualization infrastructure, hybrid cloud resources or public cloud resources taking into consideration the technical requirement, security, cost effectiveness and sustainability.
- Provide L2 / L3 support and oversee the infrastructure operational team in the proper administration and timely resolution of critical incident. Perform root cause analysis, present problem report finding and follow through the preventive recommendation.
- Perform operational, administration and enhancement support on on-premises virtualization infrastructure, Hybrid Cloud infrastructure and Cloud Management Platform.
- Plan procurement schedule, develop technical requirement specifications and carry out procurement activities to ensure required hardware and software is procured successfully and timely.
- A relevant university degree with at least 8 years of relevant working experience.
- At least 4 years of relevant experiences as technical lead in providing solution and participate in infrastructure deployment projects.
- At least 2 years of relevant experiences in managing outsource operational vendor.
- More than 5 years’ of day 2 operational support and/or implementation hand on experience on VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation and vRealize Suite of product and solutions.
- Good technical knowledge with hands on experience preferred in at least one or more of the following technologies:VMware NSX
VMWare vRealize Automation
VMware Cloud on AWS and HCX
VMware Tanzu
- Good technical knowledge, exposure and prefer hand on experiences on AWS and Azure Cloud native services such as Compute, Containers, Storage, Networking, Developer Tools, Serverless, Security and etc.
- More than 5 years of practical hand on and administration experiences working with multiple Unix/Linux OS such as CentOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Solaris and/or HP-UX.
- Strong understanding of IT related services, processes and the governance that encompassed them
- Certification VMWare Certified Professional VCAP or/and AWS Certified Solution Architect, will be an added advantage.
- Experiences in developing requirement specification and involvement in procurement activities will be an advantage.
- Able to work with a diversified and high performing team and align to business objectives and outcomes.
- Strong analytical ability and attention to detail with the ability to deep dive when required. Able to priorities what technologies and services have more significance in the infrastructure over others and understanding and defining the technology stack.
- Self-motivated and results oriented with excellent analytical, problem solving, interpersonal, presentation and facilitation skills.
- Excellence verbal and written communication skills.