Senior Infrastructure Specialist - London, United Kingdom - Munich Re Specialty Group

Munich Re Specialty Group

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Senior Infrastructure Specialist (M/F/d)
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Company
Munich Re Specialty Group

Location
London, United Kingdom

We are looking for an experienced Senior Automation Specialist to assist in the successful development, implementation and oversight of our new automation stack.

This position is ideally located in London and will report directly to the Head of Infrastructure Engineering.

Main responsibilities include developing automation for product as well assisting the operations team to support the automation platform itself.

Responsibilities

Create concepts and documentation, as well as coordinate architectural adjustments.
Technical ability to troubleshoot production issues from end user to core platform scale
Provide full Root Cause Analysis for any production outages
Develop, code automation for products such as network creation, virtual machine deployment & agent installs.
Assist the program architects to make crosscutting architecture decisions.
Contributing to the design of failsafe architectures with reference to security and business continuity requirements
Coordination of lifecycle projects of components and products in your area of responsibility in close cooperation with the division datacenter operations and external service providers.
Perform ITinternal global communication and coordination of technical changes for the automation stack.
Define reports, KPIs, SLAs for the service and provider management.
Evaluate proposals from external provider for infrastructure design adaptions.

Skills & Experience

Technicalbased university degree (preferably in IT) or several years' experience in the IT infrastructure area.
Profound practical knowledge in vRealize Automation, & vRealize Orchestrator (VRA/VRO) version
Proficient in creating automation workflows and Cloud Templates
Experience in automated product deployment in public cloud (Azure) and private cloud (VMware).
Experience of driving 3rd party software via API calls.
Experience in TypeScript and/or JavaScript is essential.
Practical knowledge in configuration management tools like Salt (preferred), Chef, or Ansible.
Comprehensive knowledge in bordering areas VMWare, LAN, WAN, Storage, DMZ, Backup, AD, Oracle, Azure Dashboard, Azure Site Recovery/Site Recovery Manager.
Additional experience in VXRail / Other vendor Hyperconverged-Infrastructure architectures would be desirable.
Strong communication and presentation skills in conveying complex issues; commitment and willingness to learn.
Experience in working on technical projects and in virtual teams, and in coordinating and managing external service providers
Willingness to evaluate and implement innovative architectures, not be restricted in own responsibility
Analytical and methodological skills for preparing technical drafts
Very good command of written and spoken English