.Role and responsibilities:

• Provide technical domain expertise for Infrastructure including servers, storage, hypervisor, VDIs, backups, physical facilities and physical layouts that support the applications and business processes. 
• Design, build, and manage physical and virtual infrastructure environments.
• Deploy, operate, manage, monitor, troubleshoot and provide support for VMware infrastructure.
• Design and setup backup/replication with tools such as Zerto, Veeam, Rubrik and plan/test disaster recovery and business continuity activities.
• Plan and perform P2V and V2V migrations.
• Maintain IT Environment Providers and/or Service Provider product standards and reusable solutions.
• Create and update Technical Solution Design documents.
• Demonstrate experience in Infrastructure architecture, with the ability to clearly formulate end-to-end hosting environment technical plans in accordance with requirements.
• Co-ordinate and plan datacenter activities including rack/stack, cabling, power and cooling and maintain inventory.
• Demonstrate customer service, communications and leadership skills.
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Requirements:

• Knowledge of information technology and associated methods and tools used to attain project/business objectives.
• Experience with VMware ESXi and related technologies
• Experience with backup and recovery solutions like Zerto, Rubrik, Veeam etc.
• Experience setting up and managing IT and datacenter infrastructure including servers, storage, network, virtualization, backups, VDI.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture principals.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure design.
• In-depth knowledge of enterprise level IT solutions.
• Good Understanding of Hyper converged Infrastructure (VMware and Nutanix)
• Experience in the evaluation and selection of Software and Equipment components of the Infrastructure.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Basic knowledge of the PMI process groups (initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing) and current Project Management methodologies
• At least five years of progressive IT experience in large IT environments.

Skills/Tools/Certifications:

• VMware, Zerto, Veeam, Rubrik
• VCP Certified.