Virtualization System Engineer Consultant

Keystone Solutions is seeking a Virtualization System Engineer for a consultancy mission at a client site. As a consultant, you will be representing Keystone Solutions while working on critical infrastructure that simplifies life-changing legal processes and empowers notaries and citizens alike.

As our Virtualization System Engineer, your main tasks will include:

• →Ensuring level 2 and level 3 support for virtualization and backup platforms.
• →Design, manage, and maintain Nutanix (AHV) and VMware environments.
• →Implement and maintain high-availability and clustering solutions.
• →Document operational procedures for 1st and 2nd level support.
• →Designing, implementing, and operating enterprise backup solutions for virtual servers.
• →Definition and enforcement of backup SLAs, RPO, and RTO.
• →Configuration of backup policies, retention, restore, and reporting.
• →Management of archiving and long-term retention of virtual workloads.
• →Automating provisioning and operational tasks related to virtualization and backup.
• →Automation of virtual server deployments.
• →Scripting for backup, restore, monitoring, and maintenance activities.
• →Setting up and maintaining high availability platforms (clusters) and backup processes.
• →Proactive monitoring and optimization of performance, capacity, and storage usage.
• →Collaborating on Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP).
• →Definition and testing of restore and disaster recovery scenarios.
• →Participation in DR tests and continuous improvement of recovery procedures.
• →Following up on incidents and communicating clearly in case of SLA breach to customers.

We will also expect you to:

• Maintain an excellent level of personal expertise, keeping constantly informed of the latest updates in relevant technologies and share knowledge with colleagues.
• Contribute to global Continuity and security platform and to that intent liaise with specialists from your own department or from other teams.
• Contribute to internal team meetings.
• Liaise & collaborate with other team members & ensure efficient hand-over of information & work, as appropriate.

Minimum 7 years of experience as a Virtualization System Engineer, of which 2 in a senior position with effective end responsibility for technical aspects. Fluent in Dutch/French (a passive knowledge of one of both national languages is a must) and English. IT/technical knowledge includes:

• Strong expertise in virtualization platforms, preferably Nutanix AHV and VMware vSphere.
• Strong expertise in backup and data protection solutions, including SLA management and archiving.
• Good knowledge of SAN and storage technologies.
• Solid understanding of Windows Server environments in virtualized infrastructures.
• Good understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, etc.).
• Good knowledge of server hardware and virtual infrastructure components.
• Experience with monitoring and reporting tools in an enterprise environment.
• Analytic minded, open to new solutions and technologies.
• Ability to prioritize various requests, ranking the importance vs the urgency, while keeping the Customer’s interest as a priority.
• Team player at ease with sharing knowledge and best practices with colleagues.

Dutch or French
Level Full professional proficiency
English
Level Professional working proficiency
Documents to be completed
NDA_Fednot.docx

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• Backup & Storage
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• Hyperconverged Infrastructure
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• Virtualization
• (mandatory) - Level: Advanced - Most recent: This year