Virtualisation Specialist Ipswich, England
BT
Full Time
Ipswich, England
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
Virtualisation Specialist
Job Req ID: 15922
Posting Date: 31 May 2023
Function: Infrastructure
Location:
Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, United Kingdom
Salary: Competitive with Great Benefits
Why this job matters
Provide effective 3rd lIne operational technical support, build and RCA for Enterprise Cloud & Legacy computing infrastructure. Manage key stakeholder and customer relationships. Provide operational excellence and leadership across EC & legacy platforms.
This role can be based in BT's offices in Manchester or Ipswich
What you’ll be doing
- Owns improvement projects that have an impact at business unit level.
- Be a Subject Matter Expert for Enterprise Cloud & legacy compute platforms operations & service.
- Assess risk, manage and mitigate this taking action up to director level.
- Maintain good working relationships with key internal or external stakeholders at senior level.
- Work on and own complex problems and incidents.
- Timely escalation to Senior Manager and stakeholders of service issues.
- Challenge myself and team supporting a high performing environment.
- Passionate about sharing knowledge and expertise with others within the business unit to ensure business continuity & business improvement.
- Make recommendations that benefit BT’s operational improvements across all business goals such as power reduction, capacity management, cost reduction.
- Join an existing call-out rota to provide out of hours support.
Skills Required For the Role
- Deep Operating System & Virtulisation knowledge.
- Scripting and automation of regular tasks.
- Continual Service Improvement.
- EC platform knowledge.
- Knowledgeable in business strategy.
- Incident and Change management.
- Supplier Management.
- Stakeholder Management.
- Asset Management.
Experience You Would Be Expected to Have
- A minimum of two years' experience as a VMware engineer.
- VMWare Certified Professional (VCP) desirable.
- Management of a large VMware server environment, including integration with storage and virtual networking.
- Build and Upgrades of ESXi environment
- Server firmware and driver updates
- ESXi Installation
- Networking and storage configuration
- Security and lockdown
- VMware NSX, Tanzu & vSAN.
- Pro-active monitoring, alerting and continuous service improvement.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- 10% on target bonus
- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme
- Option to join the Healthcare Cash Plan or other benefits such as dental insurance, gym memberships etc.
- 50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans
- Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages
- BT TV, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids
- 30% discount for friends and family on EE mobile pay monthly and SIM only plans
About us
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.
Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.
BT
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London, United Kingdom
Philip Jansen
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10000+ Employees
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