Orchestration/Automation Engineer

Job Description:

Overview

This seasoned VMware Lead role works alongside the Orchestration Engineer and Offering Architects, they will focus on a UK Secure Project. They will join the team for a multicloud deployment project to assist with the Workload and Platform Services Offering; DXC Managed Multicloud Services powered by VMware (MSVx) as the VMware Orchestration Lead.

Based: UK.

Applicant must hold or gain UK SC security clearance.

Job Description

• Experience of vRO / vRA and/or ESXi
• Understand DXC managed multicloud offering and various components of it.
• Work to a structured approach, sometimes customising the deployment to fit the need.
• Comfortable working in an agile manner.
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and changing priorities.
• Must have good communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for working on the orchestration of this high profile internal project.
• Be aware of the MSVx standard offering.
• Work closely with the architectural design, engineering, and implementation teams.
• Experience in architecture, design and deployment of virtualised infrastructures, ideally with a special emphasis on VMware vSphere vRO & vRA.
• Demonstrate the ability to comprehend and apply technical documents, requirements, and orchestrate tools.

Specific Skills

• Works on problems / projects of diverse complexity and scope.
• Proven track record of delivering solutions to strict timescales.
• Proactive person able to self-manage and work effectively with the architecture planning and design team.
• Highly competent and proactive person.
• An effective communicator, able to provide clear, concise, and accurate updates, both verbally and in writing to management leadership teams (technical and non-technical).
• Ability to clearly provide status updates to the Programme Manager, Technical Enablement Manager and Architects, written and verbally.
• Understanding of both vRA & vRO deployments
• Knowledge of PDXC & SNOW.

Education/Qualifications

• Professional IT experience.
• Has 2+ years VMware tools experience
• Previous experience with Cloud implementations, preferable cloud
• Preferred to have some VMware certification(s).

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