Hyper-V Specialist

Location

WFH/Hybrid, with onsite at Data centres and Client sites in the UK

Trust Systems offer Digital, Network and Cloud solutions ensuring scalable and highly available infrastructure for their market leading clients. Trust Systems are also a leading managed service provider, and we pride ourselves on high customer satisfaction. Since 2006, Trust has offered a range of infrastructure solutions, cloud, hosted and managed services. As Trust Systems has evolved its portfolio of offerings, we have developed further infrastructure and cloud-based solutions to optimise clients efficiency and capability to grow.

Trust Systems offer a supportive and collaborative working environment where you are encouraged to think outside of the box and grow to meet your career aspirations. You will be fully supported in your role and will have access to relevant courses to broaden your skills.

Trust Systems has rapid growth ambitions and provides a portfolio of solutions across networks, traditional infrastructure, hosted/on premise cloud and multi-cloud solutions.

As part of the growth plans for the service, and as part of the customer success, Trust Systems has created a new position within the team.

The Cloud & Infrastructure Consultant will be part of the Trust Cloud team reporting to the Head of Cloud Services. The role will fulfil service design, deployment and support for customers looking at across a spectrum of virtualisation technologies onto Trust Cloud solutions. Additionally, the role and be required to assist within the wider Trust Services operational arena, supporting existing infrastructure solution upgrades, and in a 3rd/4th line capacity.

This will be working alongside the managed services team as a third line support lead for more complex issues.

The role will require solid VMWare and Hyper-V skills and Trust is looking for an outgoing, self-starter, who has the appetite and drive to develop knowledge in Scale Computing HCI, Zadara zCompute (our multi-tenant Enterprise Class Cloud platform) and other platforms.

The role will be classed as 'work from home', and it is anticipated that the work will be based on a split between customer sites predominantly in the South/Mid UK, with working from home when not on customer sites. Our existing consultants work against an approximate 70/30 split with 70% being remote working, however onsite work can vary according to projects and client demand.

The candidate suited to this role would need to have skillsets in the following:

• Solid and proven virtualisation skills across both VMWare and Hyper-V
• Ideally HCI experience, focus is Scale Computing & Nutanix
• Implementation of VMware ESXi/vCenter & Hyper-V (on premise) systems, including supporting components, single and multi-site, with backup & disaster recovery solution knowledge an advantage
• In depth knowledge and experience in complex migrations across VMWare & Hyper-V environments
• Server & Storage Hardware knowledge, ideally with some degree of support, including configuration, firmware management, out of band management, HPE, Dell, Exa Grid product portfolio
• Good general networking understanding, including of (switching) L2, L3, routing, firewalls and switching, (technologies include Mellanox, Cisco and Fortinet), ideally configuration level experience
• Good working knowledge of some of the key holistic data centre enterprise systems, from servers, networking, firewalls, switching, storage, backup, DR technologies, either management or support roles
• Windows operating environment design, implementation and support, including (but not limited to Active Directory, Group Policies, Windows Remote Desktop services, Windows update, Windows NPS features)
• Knowledge and experience implementing Systems Management toolsets and protocols
• ITIL knowledge and Service Management documentation and design
• Knowledge of Security principles and security hardening
• Good documentation skills, ability to create document templates
• Customer focussed, ability to communicate with the customer at a technical and (high and low) design level
• Able to manage own time, work as part of a team as well as individually, and work under minimal direct supervision - a 'self-starter', able to take initiative when needed
• To demonstrate an understanding of Trust Systems ISO certifications and the obligations within this role
• Experience of operating and working within secure locations and within secure network environments