C002451 Senior Engineer (Private Cloud Virtualisation) (NS) - TUE 15 Nov
EMW, Inc., Belgium

Deadline Date: Tuesday 15 November 2022

Requirement: Senior Engineer (Private Cloud Virtualisation)

Location: Braine L'Alleud, BE

Full time on-site: Yes

NATO Grade: A/120

Total Scope of the request (hours): 836

Required Start Date: 9 January 2023

End Contract Date: 31 December 2023

Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET

Specific Working Conditions: Main Duty Location is Braine L'Alleud. Can work in SHAPE/Mons, HQ Brussells or any other datacenters if/when required

Duties amp; Role:

The incumbent as Senior Private Cloud Virtualization Engineer is accountable to the Service Delivery Manager of Infrastructure Hosting Service (INF004) and Service area Owner (SaO) of Infrastructure as a Service throughout the entire service lifecycle.

The incumbent will perform duties such as following:

• Level-3 full life cycle of Private Cloud Infrastructure support including virtual infrastructure, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), composable infrastructure, Windows and Unix/Linux platforms: architecture, administration, security audit support, hosting utilizations/capacity planning and adjusting hosting requirements as well as monitor and audit system utilization, and performance.
• Lead activities in the areas of design, engineering, implementation, operation and integration of Private Cloud Virtualization. Key areas of expertise are:
  • Data Centre Concepts, Technologies, Operations and Services (IaaS Private Cloud);
  • Central enterprise administration of Private Cloud infrastructure hosting;
  • Private Cloud Infrastructure disaster recovery procedures;
  • Migration, adaptation, operation, maintenance and tuning for all IaaS inside the classified/unclassified NATO and new upcoming networks;
  • Analysis and implementation of user requirements;
  • Maintenance of the infrastructure hardware and implementation of changes;
  • Identification operational problems and contribution to their resolution;
  • Securing Core Services.
• Support configuration management efforts and use of Private Cloud IaaS configuration management and automation tools (Ansible preferably) for continual IaaS hosting service improvements.
• Develop and maintain a data driven unitized Private Cloud IaaS cost model framework in coordination with other Agency stakeholders for determining associated hosting costs to deliver projects and services using supporting cost modelling tools such as VMware vRealize Operations Manager or similar where possible. Document and transfer Private Cloud IaaS cost model knowledge throughout the organization.
• Provides detailed cost analysis, includes breakdowns of project costs, service cost audits, and identifies opportunities to increase operational efficiency and decrease hosting costs without sacrificing customer satisfaction.
• Leads Private Cloud IaaS projects and continual service improvement initiatives from design engineering to implementation and stakeholder management to support NATO operations.
• Give technical briefings and presentations; write and/or review technical reports, designs and point-papers for publication.
• Provide personal, technical and professional support and guidance for section staff and in the development and tutoring of any subordinate staff as an integral part of their career development
• Performs other duties and support other projects and daily operations as may be required;
• Might need to work on scheduled maintenances, service-affecting activities and contingency work outside of regular business hours or being on-call after working hours on weekends
• Might need to travel and work in SHAPE/Mons, HQ Brussells or any other datacenters if/when required

Requirements

Skill, Knowledge amp; Experience:

• The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance

Essential Experience and Education:

• Sound practical experience in the architecture, design, implementation, support, testing and maintenance of Private Cloud Infrastructure Hosting including virtual infrastructure, virtual machine provisioning, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), composable infrastructure;
• Extensive hands on systems engineer professional experience and subject matter expertise in a production environment with VMware infrastructure products such as VMware vSphere, vSAN, vRealize Operations managers, VMware SRM, vSphere Replication and a good level of exposure and or very good understanding of other products like VMware VCF, vRealize Automation and NSX;
• Professional experience in large Private Cloud IaaS cloud provider, man

Job Rewards and Benefits