System Administrator

• Type: Contract
• Job #17040

About the role

Our State Government client is seeking an experienced System Administrator to join their team to assist with the delivery of virtualisation, storage and backup services.

Key responsibilities

• Developing and supporting storage services hosted within AWS (design and implement as managed services, that SV can offer to end user clients within the Partnership).

• Developing scripts to extract metric data from a variety of SV managed services (on-premise and AWS) to be used for consumption and availability reporting and billing purposes.

• Business As Usual support and maintenance of on-premise virtualisation, storage and backup and recovery services, including:

  • Service Requests for new/modify/remove

  • Incident response, engaging with clients and upstream support vendors

  • System updates and patches to maintain infrastructure currency to vendor support versions

  • Infrastructure replacement when required

  • Maintain technical procedure documentation

  • Communicate with clients to clarify requirements and confirm successful delivery of requested service

Skills and experience

• Demonstrated experience with AWS IAAS and PAAS services, particularly AWS storage, CloudFormation, Athena, Simple Notification Service, EC2).

• Demonstrated experience with the deployment of AWS Marketplace products within an existing VPC and network security constructs

• Demonstrated experience with using GitHub/Git and Terraform

• Demonstrated experience in configuring and maintaining:

  • VMware vSphere 7/8 clusters

  • Fibre Channel SAN (preferably PureStorage X series, Hitachi G series and Brocade switches)

• Capable scripting and coding skills

Desirable criteria

• Experience with:

  • Containers (podman)

  • DELL EMC Isilon

  • HPE Synergy Blade Infrastructure

  • EMC Networker, Avamar and Data Domain

  • RedHat Linux

  • Windows Server 2019/2022.

  • VMware Aria Automation, Operations Manager and Log Insight

Contact details

For a confidential chat, please contact Tayah on 0498 476 677 or via email at tayah@exclaim-it.com.au and we would be more than happy to provide you with additional information and assist in the application process.