.About us: Antelope Consulting is an IT consultancy and outsourcing firm based in the UK. It has been providing IT and database solutions since 2004 predominantly in the financial marketplace. Put simply, Antelope Consulting can piece together all the elements for you. By using its significant experience in this area, we can significantly de-risk your project, along with providing guarantees of performance, stability, and scalability that few companies can provide.Our proposal: The Senior Cloud and Data Center Engineer manages and supports our client's Virtualized Infrastructure stack, with Compute based on OpenStack and VMware vSphere and Storage based on NetApp / Ceph, as well as Cloud environments, primarily running on Google Cloud Platform and IaaS/PaaS providers, from Development through to ownership and support of Production environments. Additionally, the Engineer provides support with hardware purchases and deployment in different environments. The role requires network knowledge and the ability to work with Network, System Administration departments to coordinate tasks and projects.Your every day:Maintain and support a large Virtualized environment that hosts 2000+ VMs running VMware vSphere / vSAN 7.0+.Deploy and manage VMware vSphere clusters in Production, Corporate, and Test environments.Deploy and manage HPE server hardware, including maintenance and troubleshooting.Manage Ceph storage clusters; perform maintenance andtroubleshoot Ceph-related issues.Capacity planning for the Compute and Storage infrastructure, able to define technical bills of materials.Assist in designing, testing, implementation, and documentation of new infrastructure stacks.Deploy and manage NetApp shared storage devices, including maintenance and incident resolution.Conduct preventive maintenance on infrastructure to ensure efficient operations.Maintain and support a backup infrastructure based on Veeam B&R; 11+. Manage backup infrastructure such as proxies, repositories, jobs, following best practices.Management of Cloud Infrastructure and Infrastructure as a Service solutions.Interact with third party vendors & contractors, such as data center support and remote hands engineers. Work with stakeholders, project managers, and other teams to ensure system designs meet business requirements.Participate on shared team on-call rotation.It could be a perfect match if you have:Excellent English and Spanish verbal and written communication skills.5+ years of overall IT experience with enterprise-level virtualized environments, designing, implementing and maintaining a VMware vSphere ecosystem .Server hardware knowledge and experience, firmware, iLO/BMC, BIOS, PXE, RAID.Experience in data center operations such as remote access, inventory management, rack layouts, structured cabling, hot/cold aisles, security and power.Working knowledge of networking, including routing, switching and firewalls, subnets, addressing schemes, access rules, VLANs
