Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Infohob Technology

InfoHob is an innovative Tech Recruitment and IT Outsourcing solutions company. Infohob is Nigeria's plug-and-play tech recruitment and IT outsourcing solution that helps you design your future workforce.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full time

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.

Duties and 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 and 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 re-build 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 with implementing these technologies is a plus.
• 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
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Curriculum Vitae to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.