Job Description
Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Last line of escalation for technical support incidents escalated from our managed service provider.
- Manage all VMWare technologies across the estate including vSphere, ESXi, vCenter based on Dell MX7000/Cisco UCS hardware.
- Responsible for Azure cloud environments, including new implementations, and responding to any issues with a prompt resolution.
- Work with other teams across the company to spec and build solutions for their needs.
- Project management of all critical infrastructure IT implementations ensuring systems are well planned, accurately built to spec, delivered on time and well documented.
- Develop and maintain VMware templates for Windows and Linux OSes.
- Automation of VMware using PowerCLI, Scripting and automation azure.
- Manage on prem AD forests and Azure AD environments with expert knowledge of how it integrates with Azure AD.
- Expert knowledge of Windows OS including IIS, DNS, DHCP, and Group policies.
- Working with deployment technologies including SCCM/Altiris and patching.
- Manage backup infra using technologies from NetBackup and Dell Avamar along with support for IPDA, PowerConnect and tape systems.
- Manage ACL permissions on DellEMC Isilon SMB file systems.
- Producing technical documentation for all new systems and implementations server side.
Personal Qualities:
- High level of organization and ability to prioritize tasks.
- Adaptive to different working environments.
- Flexibility to look for out of the box solutions to meet internal customer needs.
- Ability to develop strong relationships with people at all levels and across organizations (client teams, vendors, competitors).
- Willing to admit mistakes, learn from them, and ask for help.
- Analytical; enjoys problem-solving.
- Ability to informally and formally influence others in a positive way.
- Strong desire to improve and continuously learn.
- Professional demeanor and behavior; can-do attitude.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- MSCE, VMware or Azure Certified Professional.
- Hands on working knowledge for architecting and managing large cloud infrastructure (Azure).
- Hands on working understanding of datacenter stack products such as VMWare, Storage, networking and windows stack -AD, DNS, IIS, DHCP, TCPIP, DFSR.
- Experience with migrating, architecting, building, or deploying systems and applications in cloud platforms.
- Hands of knowledge of hybrid cloud architectures and cloud native application architectures.
- Advanced architectural knowledge of networking, security groups and policy management for cloud resources across multiple operating systems, including UNIX, Linux, or Windows.
- 10 or more years of relevant experience in managing large scale server and storage infrastructure.
Bonus QUALIFICATIONS:
- DellEMC Isilon experience.
- SAN network and management with Cisco, DellEMC, and Pure.
WFO:
- Candidates will be required to work 3 days from the office
- Candidates from Delhi NCR will be preferred
Ankura is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability. Equal Employment Opportunity Posters, if you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, submit an online application, or participate in an interview/assessment, please email accommodations@ankura.com or call toll-free +1.312-583-2122. This email and phone number are created exclusively to assist disabled job seekers whose disability prevents them from being able to apply online. Only messages left for this purpose will be returned. Messages left for other purposes, such as following up on an application or technical issues unrelated to a disability, will not receive a response.
