CAX VDI Engineer (Contract) - Gauteng/Hybrid - ISB5402584

Our client requires the services of an Operations Engineer (Senior) - Midrand/Menlyn/Rosslyn/Home Office rotation.

• Amazing brand with cutting-edge technology
• Excellent teams in Global team collaboration
• High work-life balance with Flexible hours
• Agile working environment

POSITION: Contract until December 2026

EXPERIENCE: 6 - 8+ Years related working experience.

COMMENCEMENT: As soon as possible

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE

• Degree in Information Systems or equivalent experience
• ITIL certification (advantageous)
• Any Scrum certification (advantageous)
• Any Scrum Master certification
• Any storage vendor certification
• Any operating system certification relating to data management
• Any programming certification
• Any web application programming certification
• Minimum of 4 years of IT operations experience including ITIL
• Minimum of 4 years of storage experience
• Minimum of 4 years of Scrum work experience
• Minimum of 4 years of VDI and operating systems experience

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

• Knowledge of Confluence, Jira and Bitbucket/GitHub
• Knowledge of storage technologies as well as state of the art solutions
• Knowledge of Unix, Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu) and Windows
• Knowledge of mounting technologies Autofs and DFS
• Knowledge of protocols NFS and CIFS
• Knowledge of framework Agile Working Model
• Knowledge of Virtualisation technologies such as VMWare Horizon / ESXi / Cloud Foundation
• Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) charter

ADVANTAGEOUS TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Knowledge in migrating complex VDI environments (e.g. platform switch)
• Knowledge of LINUX Redhat / Ubuntu Operating systems running in a virtualisation environment
• Knowledge of storage technologies emc2 and NetApp
• Knowledge of Systems Management such as scVENUS and Ansible
• Knowledge of Ansible Tower, playbook design and deployment
• Knowledge of Public Cloud such as Azure and AWS
• Knowledge of Private Cloud solutions
• Knowledge of Directory Access Manager (DIVA)
• Knowledge of Intelligent Storage Orchestration Environment (iStore) and Active Directory Gruppentool (ADGR)
• Basic knowledge of Active Directory/LDAP
• Professional communication and documentation skills
• Basic knowledge of ITIL and ITSM such as Problem-Incident-Change processes
• Basic knowledge of ITSM Suite
• Basic knowledge of Scrum
• Deep knowledge of operation and maintenance of web applications (programming)
• Deep knowledge of programming such as Bash and Perl

ROLE:

• Able to understand complex application architecture/dependencies (CA related) and the impact it can have on a VDI environment
• Designing VDI solutions to support business requirements based on GROUP guidelines
• Design Ansible playbooks to meet business requirements for CA-Application performance (VDI deployment / Public- and Private Cloud)
• Responsible for VDI Deployment
• Understanding GROUPs CA Data Management / Follow the Data as an VDI deployment approach.
• Driving possible VDI automation topics (deployment/resource management/asset management)
• Defining specific engineering roles for VDIs matching their exact application needs and supporting the GROUP partner onboarding process (e.g. Crash Test simulation)
• Understanding global engineering (ItO) resource demands and consulting / designing the optimal VDI solution
• Driving GROUPs CA VDI cloud strategy towards constant state of the art architectural design
• Perform housekeeping/monitoring/managing of the VDI platforms focusing on stability/performance as well as cost optimization.
• Defining self service requests in ServiceNow portals for VDI demands (e.g. resizing, additional VDI, Platform switch)
• Perform reporting of/forecast overall CA VDI demands (related to user requirements/platforms)
• Supporting and consulting applications owners on specific cloud migration requests with a focus on VDIs
• Manage Problem, Incident and Change process for dedicated ITSM service.
• Upon demand willing to work on weekends (changes).
• Operate and maintain scripts (e. g. deletion)
• Keep documentation up to date in all relevant systems (e. g. as is configuration CMDB/Application Instance Wizard, to be configuration Connect IT, knowledge database resolveIT)
• Attend and moderate operation meetings.
• Coordinate external contractors.
• Manage security vulnerabilities.

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