The role is part of Virtualization Engineering Team within Distributed Compute in CTO
Enterprise services
* A VMware Engineering POD Lead is responsible for guiding the development and delivery of VMware products ensuring they meet business needs and customer expectations
* Responsible for VMware Products Vision and Strategy with a focus on automation
* availability reliability performance and scale Managing complex environmental issues
* collaborating with wider teams such as Operations Applications Engineering
* Connectivity and vendors Establish and enforce engineering standards and SRE best
* practices through platform constraints and highfidelity system modelling
* The successful applicant will be in undertaking all processes and procedures that
* underpin an effective and efficient engineering solutions to support business critical
* services hosted on VMware shared platform Jobholder will also be responsible for driving
* the Service Sustainability Transformation and SRE initiatives within team drive
* automation of routine tasks and ensure improved service reliability through engineering solutions
In this role you will
* Lead and mentor a team of VMware engineers within the POD structure
* Responsible for people and performance management of the team
* Design deploy and manage VMware vSphere VRO vRLI and related technologies
* Oversee daytoday operations troubleshooting and performance tuning of the virtual environment
* Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to deliver infrastructure solutions for business needs
* Drive automation initiatives using tools such as PowerCLI Ansible or vRealize Suite
* INTERNAL
* Develop and maintain technical documentation standards and best practices
* Participate in capacity planning disaster recovery and business continuity activities
* Stay updated with the latest VMware technologies and industry trends
* Engage key stakeholders to ensure product success and value communicate issues
* progress and resolutions for critical incidents liaise between operations and
* engineering teams
* Continuously monitor compliance and mitigate risks using tools like vRealize
* Operations ensure adherence to regulatory standards and internal policies
* Manage and improve product offerings throughout their lifecycle using Agile
* methodologies assess resource needs for critical services
* Share regular product updates with stakeholders ensure products are updated and
* compliant with supported versions communicate CVEs promptly
* Provide technical direction and leadership ensuring best practices in VMware
* products distributed systems servers and storage
* Handle crisis situations efficiently representing the team in major incident calls and providing technical expertise
* Implement robust monitoring and ing systems to proactively manage platform health
* Ensure system availability and performance meeting defined SLAs and SLOs
* Plan for future capacity needs and optimize system performance through tuning and scaling
To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements
* 15 Years of total IT experience with large scale IT Infrastructure and 12 year of experience with Distributed Systems Ex Linux Windows High Availability Solutions
* Server Hardware and VMware products
* DiplomaBEBTechMTechMSc in Computer ScienceIT preferred or any
* engineering field considered or equivalent
* Proven leadership and team management skills
* Experienced in managing and maintaining VMware products vSphere vCenter
* vROPS vRO vRLI vRLCM within banking finance domain
* Proven ability to lead and drive engineering deliveries through automation using
* PowerCLI Python Ansible vRO workflows in large scale virtualization infrastructure
* Strong understanding of network and storage technologies in relation to distributed
* systems especially VMware platform
* Ability to work collaboratively in team environment and communicate effectively with
* technical and nontechnical stakeholders
* Excellent communication interpersonal leadership and problemsolving skills
* Proficient in managing the entire lifecycle of hardware and software from planning and deployment to maintenance and decommissioning
Skills
Mandatory Skills :
VMWare ESXi, vRealize Suite Vmware Private Cloud
Good to Have Skills :
Vmware Horizon, Vmware-vrealize-automation - Administration, VMware-VxRail-HCI-Administration