Vacant Position: Principal Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Nairobi
Reports To: Infrastructure Engineering Team Manager
Our client, well-established and highly reputable B2B services provider is seeking to recruit a Principal Infrastructure Engineer to join their firm.
Main Purpose of the Job
The Principal infrastructure Engineer will manage the architecture, design and implementation of infrastructure and projects involving large-scale, complex and highly analytical tasks with a focus on managing virtual and physical infrastructure.
This also involves designing and improving current designs and championing secure, reliable and scalable infrastructure standards for on-premises and cloud based globally distributed datacenters.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) in one or more of the following areas: Physical and Virtual Infrastructure/Performance/reliability
- Develop broad business and technical “ecosystem” knowledge and expertise for infrastructure architecture in order to ensure solutions meet business requirements and overall quality standards
- Ensure infrastructure solution architecture stays on course with the overall program and long-term vision of the entire suite of technical solutions
- Make critical decisions that define a specific direction for a system in terms of implementation, operational performance, scalability, usability and maintainability
- Will work with the different Project Management disciplines in order to provide architectural guidance on strategic Projects
- Lead the development of formalized systems solution methodologies
- Perform proactive evaluation and assessment of new and more efficient technologies
- Lead PoC activities and Teams to establish reliable confidence in new required Systems Technologies
- Develop and maintain system standards and guidelines
- Will act as a support escalation point
- Direct cross-functional resources to identify root-cause of system and operational issues, analyze data and recommend solutions
- Continually assess the existing environment and identify opportunities for improving solutions and services
- Evaluate and provide recommendations of overall Infrastructure requirements for performance, availability, utilization and reliability
- Ensures that all architectural artifacts and deliverables are developed to the highest quality standards; provides architectural review and approval for major solutions
- Implementing and reporting on systems as part of a larger Capacity Management process
Minimum Requirements:
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in a infrastructure architecture role, defining long-term, highly impactful strategies that include system development and platform integration
- In-depth understanding of Cloud, Server, Storage, and Virtualization architecture design techniques, theories, principles, and practices
- Excellent knowledge of Windows Server, Linux, in HA/DR type configurations
- Excellent knowledge of Server hardware platforms: x86
- Excellent knowledge of VMWare ESX, vSphere, vRa, vSAN, NSX
- Excellent knowledge of SAN, NAS, DAS,RAID, SCSI, Fibre Channel, Backup to Disk, clustering, encryption technologies from multiple vendors
- Expert knowledge of defining and documenting complex technical solutions, and effectively communicating these concepts to highly varied audiences; e.g., product and software developers, leadership -including C-level executives
- Track record of successfully partnering with team members to define requirements and feature sets in a multi-vendor environment
- Ability to work proactively with minimal direction in a fast-paced technical environment
- Ability to influence without authority (both horizontally and vertically) analytical talent and leadership to achieve the goals of the business
- The intellectual and emotional capacity to thrive and succeed in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent social skills; ability to articulate verbally and written
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar engineering field, or equivalent experience required.
- Master’s preferred
- VMWARE Cloud, Virtualization, Server and Storage vendor Certifications Preferred
How to Apply
Apply through Flexi Personnel ATS send your CV to recruit@flexi-personnel.com by 6th May 2022 indicating Principal Infrastructure Engineer as the email subject.
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