Principal Infrastructure Engineer job at Flexi-Personnel
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Vacancy title:
Principal Infrastructure Engineer

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Professional Services , Category: Science & Engineering ]

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Flexi-Personnel

Deadline of this Job:
06 May 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Monday, April 25, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
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.

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

Qualifications
• 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


Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
Send your application to recruit@flexi-personnel.com 

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Job Info
Job Category: Engineering jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 06 May 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 26-04-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 26-04-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 26-04-2065
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