(Latam) ️ Senior Data Center and Cloud Engineer

**About us**:
**Antelope Consulting is an IT consultancy and outsourcing firm based in the UK**. It has been providing **IT and database solutions** since 2004 predominantly in the financial marketplace.

Put simply, Antelope Consulting can piece together all the elements for you. By using its **significant experience in this area**, we can significantly de-risk your project, along with providing guarantees of performance, stability, and scalability that few companies can provide.

**Our proposal**:
The Senior** Cloud and Data Center Engineer** manages and supports our client’s Virtualized Infrastructure stack, with Compute based on** **OpenStack and VMware vSphere and Storage based on NetApp / Ceph, as well as Cloud environments, primarily running on Google Cloud Platform and IaaS/PaaS providers, from Development through to ownership and support of Production environments.

Additionally, the Engineer provides support with hardware purchases and deployment in different environments.
The role requires** network knowledge** and the ability to work with** Network, System Administration departments to coordinate tasks and projects.**
**Scripting, automation, diagnostics, and performance tuning** are all responsibilities of the Senior Cloud and Data Center Engineer.

**Your every day**:

- Maintain and support a large Virtualized environment that hosts 2000+ VMs running VMware vSphere / vSAN 7.0+.
- Deploy and manage VMware vSphere clusters in Production, Corporate, and Test environments.
- Deploy and manage HPE server hardware, including maintenance and troubleshooting.
- Manage Ceph storage clusters; perform maintenance and troubleshoot Ceph-related issues.
- Capacity planning for the Compute and Storage infrastructure, able to define technical bills of materials.
- Assist in designing, testing, implementation, and documentation of new infrastructure stacks.
- Deploy and manage NetApp shared storage devices, including maintenance and incident resolution.
- Conduct preventive maintenance on infrastructure to ensure efficient operations.
- Maintain and support a backup infrastructure based on Veeam B&R 11+. Manage backup infrastructure such as proxies, repositories, jobs, following best practices.
- Management of Cloud Infrastructure and Infrastructure as a Service solutions.
- Interact with third party vendors & contractors, such as data center support and remote hands engineers. Work with stakeholders, project managers, and other teams to ensure system designs meet business requirements.
- Participate on shared team on-call rotation.

**It could be a perfect match if you have**:

- Excellent **English and Spanish** verbal and written communication skills.
- **5+ years** of overall IT experience with enterprise-level **virtualized environments**, designing, implementing and maintaining a **VMware vSphere ecosystem**.
- Server **hardware knowledge** and experience, firmware, iLO/BMC, BIOS, PXE, RAID.
- Experience in **data center operations** such as remote access, inventory management, rack layouts, structured cabling, hot/cold aisles, security and power.
- Working knowledge of** networking**, including routing, switching and firewalls, subnets, addressing schemes, access rules, VLANs.
- Ability to **creat**e and/or** **update processes, documentation and complex** **diagrams.**:

- Experience operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting **Ceph clusters.**:

- Solid understanding of **Linux/Unix** Administration.
- Working knowledge of** OpenStack** environments.
- Excellent **troubleshooting skills**, being able to navigate complex network and service topologies to** track down issues**.
- Experience working in an** ITIL-based organization**.

**It would be a plus**:

- Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes is a plus.
- VCP-DV Certificate is a plus.
- Experience with Automation and Infra-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible is a plus.
- Canonical/Ubuntu experience is a plus.

**What do we offer?**
- Diverse and international team
- Fantastic opportunity for self-development, progress, and learning new technologies
- USD payment
- Training
- Flexible working hours
- 100% remote position