Hybrid Senior Compute Engineer – JHB/CPT

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About the role

  • Senior Compute Engineer ensuring service availability through maintenance, monitoring, and customer consultancy. Collaborating on infrastructure deployments and resolving technical issues for key customers.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain service availability for customers by performing routine maintenance, failover testing, implementing best practices, pro-active monitoring of alerts and status changes etc.
  • Perform project related duties with regards to new and changing infrastructure deployments as required.
  • Regularly updating customers on progress of incidents, problems and changes by telephone and email.
  • Regularly updating Logicalis ticketing system Service Now / Autotask with quality notes detailing progress and actions completed on open incidents, problems, and change requests.
  • Completing customer Change Requests, including impact and risk analysis, implementing out of hours where required.
  • Provide technical consultancy to all other areas of the business to ensure the integrity, performance and support of new opportunities that involve Platform and Compute Support.
  • Provide prompt senior technical assistance on customer incidents when Tier 1 skills have exhausted a resolution attempts.
  • Find technical solutions to problems where necessary and practical, without compromising the commercial viability of current and future platform solutions.
  • To stay up to date and accredited within the current technologies.
  • Capturing repeat faults and undertaking root cause analysis.
  • Proactive identification of fault trends.
  • Where required perform the Lead Engineer role for some of Logicalis key customers on a support, service transition and project basis.
  • Work as part of the on-call rota and ensure resources are always available 24X7 and respond within SLA time frames to any calls from out of hours.
  • Attend the Change Advisory Board for customer change requests.
  • Attend meetings and working parties to represent Platform and Compute Support where necessary.
  • Attend customer meetings to provide technical consultancy, usually by VC but occasionally on site.
  • Attend customer sites for onsite project and support related activities.
  • Undertake technical audits for key customers where issues have been identified and as part of the Service Improvement Process.
  • Work closely with the solutions area of the business regarding developing new services and proposal.
  • Ensure all Customer documentation is kept up to date.
  • Providing input to customer facing Technical Incident Reports.
  • Help identify gaps in existing technical documentation, knowledge and skills.
  • Creating and maintaining of technical customer documentation.

Requirements

  • Graduate or qualified by experience
  • Microsoft Certified: Endpoint Administrator Associate (MD-102)
  • Microsoft Azure AZ-104 - Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate
  • ITIL Foundation
  • Essential (3 – 4 Years) Experience in administering Microsoft Intune
  • Experience in administering Microsoft SCCM
  • Experience of administering, maintaining and troubleshooting Windows Server and associated roles such as DNS, Active Directory, MS Entra, AD Connect / ADFS etc.
  • Microsoft Azure IAAS Administration
  • Desirable (Any) Scripting knowledge
  • PowerShell, power Cli
  • Azure AVD
  • Experience of administering/troubleshooting Windows Server
  • Veeam Backup
  • Hardware support such as Dell, HP, IBM
  • Commvault (Metallic in particular)
  • Exposure to managing PCI-DSS compliant environments
  • VMware vSphere
  • Microsoft Hyper-V
  • Synology Storage
  • Knowledge on container technologies such as Kubernetes
  • Light motor vehicle driving licence (Code B) and own reliable transport
  • Ability to obtain security clearance

Benefits

  • opportunities for personal development
  • supportive, inclusive environment
  • celebrations of diversity

Job title

Senior Compute Engineer – JHB/CPT

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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