World Wide Technology (WWT), a global technology integrator and IT solutions provider. World Wide Technology, established in 1990 in St. Louis, Missouri, collaborates with OEMs like Cisco and Dell EMC to offer infrastructure security and custom app development services to Fortune 500 companies in various sectors. With over 10,000 employees globally, we generate $17 billion in annual revenue and operate in regions including the US, UK, Canada, Europe, Costa Rica, APAC, and Middle East. We're proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer by Fortune and Glassdoor for over 13 years.
World Wide Technology Holding Co, LLC (WWT) has an opportunity for a Infrastructure Engineer. Below is the JD for the role. Please help me with the information needed to process your application, and I will contact you to discuss the role.
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Infrastructure Engineer
Contract Duration: 6 months!
Location: Remote/ London, United Kingdom
Responsibilities
* Work to deploy infrastructure required to support target applications which will be migrated to the new Cloud platform.
* Develop High- and Low-level designs for the solution.
* Cocreate test plans for customer acceptance aligned to the agreed requirements.
* Collaborate, manage, and respect the needs of a wide range of stakeholders.
* Ensure any infrastructure requirements demanded by the workloads are catered for by the infrastructure.
* Cocreate methods of procedure to build out clusters following OEM builds.
* Enable day two resource to support clusters in early life support.
* Provide knowledge transfer and documentation to customer operations teams.
* Ensure alignment with automation framework for integration and zero touch provisioning at scale.
What we are looking for
* Experience designing and building on-prem Kubernetes environments, preferably on Red Hat OpenShift.
* Experience working in a Telco environment with knowledge of regulatory considerations and TSA awareness (Telecoms Security Act) and operate within the boundaries.
* Experience building High- and Low-level design documents.
* Work with Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) and container platforms (OpenShift/Kubernetes) team for cloud-native deployments.
* Experience in bare metal deployments leveraging automation and ZTP (zero touch provisioning)
* Detailed knowledge of the physical installation considerations of such deployments.
* Have a flexible and ‘can do’ attitude with a strong sense of initiative with the ability to learn fast and deal calmly with situations under pressure.
* Have strong organization and planning skills to manage multiple tasks.
* Experience with VMware (Vsphere / VSAN / NSX-T) and migrations / replatforming from VMWare into Redhat
* For OpenShift, experience with their TNC reference architecture is a big plus.
* From a networking perspective, MetalLB and service mesh (Istio).
* For Storage, experience with Pure and Portworx would be good.
* For the IaaS component OpenStack is being used, Redhat
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to discuss technical topics with a range of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* Foundational knowledge of building these clusters onto Arista or Cisco networks would also be beneficial, understanding the connectivity and requirements of the underlying network fabric.
* Awareness of CICD pipelines, gitlab and general Devops principles would also be beneficial as you will be working with Architects responsible for automation.
All candidates will need to go through a background check.
Must be eligible to live and work in the UK. Only successful candidates will be contacted.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
World Wide Technology is committed to equal opportunities and actively seeks applications from all sectors of the community irrespective of sex, race, color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, having responsibility for dependents, age, religion/beliefs, or any other reason which cannot be shown to be justified.
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