Cloud Engineer at Layer3

Layer3 is one of the fastest growing network and security infrastructure companies in West Africa, providing award-winning services, including managed and cloud services, network security, IT infrastructure management, virtualization and mobile device management solutions. Our unique model integrates best-of-breed technologies from global leaders such as Juniper Networks, Blue Coat, Polycom, AirWatch, F5, Extreme Networks and VMware, coupled with our next-generation metro fiber networks, to offer unparalleled services and after sales support to some of the most demanding customers.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Cloud Engineer

Location: Abuja (Hybrid)

Job Purpose

• You will be responsible for designing, building, and testing the cloud infrastructure services components comprising the cloud infrastructure as well as providing level 3 support.
• Also responsible for working to make sure the underlying cloud infrastructure architecture and technical decisions support their cloud services, service tiers, and OLAs needed to meet business needs.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect end to end validated solutions which represent real world cloud provider implementations
• Build validated solutions, as needed design and architect the solution stack and configure equipment to kick the project off
• Function as the technical product expert for specific cloud provider solution areas
• Work closely with the cloud business unit providing input on & formal review of product functional specifications prior to development, provide feedback on releases and feature implementations
• Partner with the product management to successfully guide product design, implementation, release, testing, and maintenance
• Work across business units to provide input to VMware product and engineering teams on cloud provider specific product features and functional specifications prior to development
• Interact with Product Management and Product Engineering to become a technical expert on selected VMware technologies various teams to gather and shape requirements for presentations to senior level leaders.

Qualifications / Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, related field or equivalent
• 3+ years of experience in technology related areas including: enterprise systems management and infrastructure (datacenter) architecture experience with significant depth around designing, implementing, and managing critical business infrastructure.
• 3+ years of experience with Virtualization: Virtualization Server, Storage, Desktop, Network; Reducing Sprawl
• VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Certification and VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP)Certification are desired
• 3+ years of experience with Infrastructure-Based Processes: Monitoring, Capacity Planning, Facilities Management, Performance Tuning, Asset Management, Disaster Recovery, Data Center support
• 2+ years of experience with Servers, Infrastructure, Platform Sizing, Infrastructure Cost Reduction
• 2+ years of experience with legacy system engineering assessments, discovering the build and details surrounding the system in order to rebuild it in a new hosted environment
• At least 2 years of experience with server virtualization
• At least 2 years of experience with any of the following technologies: AWS, VMWare, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
• The ideal candidate should have relevant and current VMware experience with vSphere, vCloud Director, NSX and vRealize Operations.
• A strong understanding of IT automation, management, orchestration and cloud management platform capabilities driving IaaS, SaaS and PaaS is a requirement
• Experience working with routers, switches, provisioning, firewalls and security is desired
• Ability to work in a collaborative and fast paced environment
• Self-motivated and able to deliver on projects after being given high-level objectives.
• Experience consulting with customers and stakeholders on strategies for deployment of new cloud technology implementations, monitoring and optimization
• Experience delivering end-to-end infrastructure management solutions in a cloud provider environment and improving infrastructure operations through better use of monitoring, automation, cloud coding and scripting best practices.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
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