Contract position
Minimum requirements:
- Demonstrable experience in server hardware, VMware, Linux Server, and Windows Server in a large enterprise function.
- VMware certification is required (must be current). AWS certification is advantageous.
Core VMware competencies:
- vSphere (ESX, vCenter) Aria Automation 8 (vRA)
- Troubleshooting, integration, orchestration
- ritical Aria Automation Config (Salt)
- Troubleshooting and integration - critical VMware NSX - beneficial.
- Cisco UCS (Intersight managed).
- Working knowledge of Pure storage, Arista and/or Cisco Data Centre Networking, Dell OpenManage (not critical, but definitely useful)
Responsibilities:
- Positively contribute to, define and implement the development/engineering lifecycle (end to end) and lead lifecycle improvements over successive releases.
- Produce simple, extensible, and maintainable features with very few defects.
- Continually works to find and fix defects.
- Leverage platform (service design and code) and engineering technical expertise to proactively identify risks and prevent defects.
- Identify patterns that reveal errors and unanticipated problems, and influence telemetry analytics design decisions Identify and apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code.
- Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure
- Apply object by orientated design in development and draw from a large base of design patterns.
- Uphold the technical principles of: self-service, scalability, re-usability, resilience & stability in all development practices and deliver feature sets that sustainably deliver on these principles.
- Apply knowledge and expertise in User / Customer experience to deliver a stable user experience in all design and development that is simple, elegant, and useful.
- Proactively identify development practices that work well & leverage and improve these for future solution design and deployment.
- Document feature set and constituent design information to produce solution design blueprints and validation collateral based on engineering & platform expertise and a sound knowledge of the business & customer requirements consistently provide key ideas for the enhancement & optimization of the platform.
- Develop & document complete designs and implement testing processes that identify and eradicate platform or service-wide problems / improve on platform performance.
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to the quality and ongoing quality assurance of the product/services in use, and take appropriate action.
- Ensure alignment to platform and service release plans for effective deployment of solution designs.
- Drive and implement design review processes & practices with the team & participate & positively contribute to design reviews for the feature area led by others.
- Apply expertise in engineering and available technologies to enable effective review processes Cascade review lessons learnt for the benefit of the broader team.
- Enable problem resolution across technical teams, apply and or facilitate root cause analysis, deeply understand the root causes of issues and find ways to resolve them (sustainably).
- Continuously review and find ways to optimize team processes & improve engineering quality, productivity, and team responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities.
- Optimize, refactors and reuse components to improve performance and maintainability ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment.
- Take accountability for maintaining platform standards and best practices, and drive adoption across multiple service teams.
- Demonstrate knowledge of, identify and find required data for the ongoing monitoring & improvement of the platform feature area.
- Proactively monitor the performance of the platform features & solutions.
- Translate monitoring data into clearly articulated descriptions of opportunities & defects, their impact to the customer scenario and to the product or service as a whole, and the relevance to product and service targets (within scope of the job).
- Cascade and communicate these insights across the team to influence platform decision making.
- Leverage production performance monitoring and customer data to make feature area technical design and implementation decisions.
- Synthesize data from multiple sources and present and define concise, impactful conclusions that influence feature teams to solve defects and meet quality targets.
- Accountability: Financial & Cost Optimization, Risk and Governance
- Understand the platform cost model and the optimal cost: serve of the platform, use this understanding to drive the platform efficiency and effectiveness objectives.
- Participate in incident management and and DR activity applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents apply Group risk (e.g. Architecture, development, change and release etc.), governance, compliance and regulatory standards and frameworks.
- Proactively identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during and post release)
- Update / Design all feature documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks.
- Proactively and effectively (time and quality) collaborate and drive collaboration on features across feature team (e.g. managing dependencies & interdependencies, conflict resolution, information & best practice sharing, problem resolution outside of own area etc.).
- Apply collaboration skills in development practices & issue resolution regardless of team boundaries and lead communication with relevant stakeholders through to conclusion.
- Contribute to a high performance team environment & culture as a high performing
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