SUMMARY:
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Elite-level Senior Infrastructure Virtualization Engineer with 15+ years of experience delivering highly available, scalable, and resilient enterprise platforms in financial and large-scale environments. Specialist in VMware, Nutanix, and hybrid infrastructure, with deep expertise in datacentre architecture, disaster recovery, and mission-critical systems. Recognized for leading complex infrastructure transformations, optimizing performance, and ensuring business continuity for Tier-1 organizations including JSE and African Bank.
PERSONAL OBJECTIVES- To insure and increase creativity and initiative in my areas of responsibility and where required by management.
- To develop myself and to strive for more wisdom.
- Ensuring an open and transparent communication line with Management and with my colleagues.
PERSONAL SKILLS
- Hardworking
- Meticulous to detail
- Ability to work individually or as part of a team.
- Outcome and deadline orientated
- Ability to work under pressure
- Good communication skills
- Strategic thinking
- Problem-solving skills
- Leadership skills
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
- Led enterprise virtualization and infrastructure initiatives supporting mission-critical environments at JSE.
- Designed and executed disaster recovery strategies ensuring high availability and business continuity.
- Successfully supported and optimized large-scale multi-datacentre environments.
- Played a key role in infrastructure modernization, including virtualization and backup transformations.
CORE SKILLS
- Virtualization: VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV, Hyper-V
- Infrastructure: Windows Server (2003–2022), Linux (Ubuntu, SUSE), Active Directory, GPO, DNS, DHCP
- Storage & SAN: IBM, HP, EMC, NetApp, Brocade, Cisco Fabric
- Backup & DR: Veeam, Backup Exec, VMware SRM, Nutanix DR
- Cloud & Tools: Azure Fundamentals, Turbonomic
- Networking: VPNs, Firewalls, Enterprise Network Design
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCESenior Infrastructure Virtualization Engineer | JSE | Apr 2021 – Present
- Own and lead virtualization and infrastructure platforms across VMware and Nutanix environments.
- Act as stand-in team lead across systems and backup teams, ensuring operational excellence.
- Drive enterprise disaster recovery strategies using VMware SRM and Nutanix, ensuring minimal downtime.
- Provide escalation support for critical incidents, maintaining high availability for trading systems.
- Deliver performance tuning, capacity planning, and executive-level reporting.
Senior Systems Engineer | African Bank | Feb 2016 – Mar 2021
- Provided senior (3rd line) engineering support across enterprise environments.
- Designed and implemented infrastructure solutions aligned to banking requirements.
- Maintained datacentre and platform stability across VMware, Nutanix, Windows and Linux.
- Executed DR and business continuity testing using Nutanix protection domains.
Enterprise OS Engineer | EOH (Client Environments) | Aug 2012 – Feb 2015
- Led virtualization transitions from physical to virtual environments.
- Implemented backup and disaster recovery solutions improving resilience.
- Supported enterprise platforms across VMware, Hyper-V and backup systems.
Senior Support Engineer | TCM | Dec 2007 – Jul 2012
- Delivered enterprise-level infrastructure, storage, and SAN support.
- Led technical projects, deployments, and customer engagements.
- Mentored junior engineers and contributed to knowledge transfer.
SKILLS & EXPERIENCEHARDWAREAS/400· Full Maintenance, Upgrades, Installations and Relocation on old and new Series Machines and peripherals.
· Upgrades: Complete machines, Migrations, Processors, Main Storage, DASD, IOP’s and IOA’s
· Site Moves: Complete solution to relocate customer computer rooms.
Intel · Full Maintenance, Upgrades, Installations and Relocation on Servers, PC’s, Laptops, and peripherals.
· Site Moves: Complete solution to relocate customer computer rooms.
Printers · Wide knowledge on maintaining and repairing Line, Laser, Dot Matrix, and Inkjet printers on board level.
· Specializing in IBM system printers, Lexmark, and HP
Storage· Full Maintenance, Upgrades, Installations and Relocation on IBM tape drives
· Implement SVC, V7000 , DS3XXX , DS4XXX , DS5XXX, and DS8100 , DS8300 , DS8700 , DS8800 , EMC , HP , Nutanix
· Also done migration from and to the above-mentioned storage units
SAN · Setup and configure Brocade and Cisco switches, merging of fabrics, also implement NPIV, with the latest technology
Blade Centres
· Implementation, setup and configure IBM Blade Centre H, E with HS22 and HS22V blades and has worked on HP Blade Centre
SOFTWARE Intel· Installations, Upgrades and Basic Fault finding on Servers. VMWare and Hyper-V installations
· Nutanix
· Linux – SUSE Enterprise
· Turbonomic
Printers and Tape Storage · Microcode (Firmware) Reloads and Updates on printers, single tape drives and Tape libraries , (IBM 6400 , 6500 , 4247 , 9300 , TS3100 , TS3200 , TS3310 , TS3500)
Storage· SVC and V7000, DSCLI , Flash copy’s
HMC (Hardware Managed Console)· Implement and upgrade HMC’s, and setup in HA mode
POSITION INFO:
Qualification
- Matric qualification
- Tertiary qualification in Information Technology / Computer Science or related
- Nutanix certification (NCP or equivalent) advantageous
- VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V certification advantageous
- Valid driver’s license (advantageous)
Required Experience:
- Minimum 5+ years’ experience in Virtualisation technologies, including:
- Strong background in general systems administration
- Solid experience with:
- Backup technologies (e.g. Veeam or equivalent)
- Microsoft Windows Server environments
- Linux operating systems
- General maintenance for the software upgrades on the servers and storage during scheduled downtime
- Provisioning, installations and configurations of virtual machines on Nutanix AHV
- Perform Life Cycle management of all Nutanix Software
- Generating performance and monitoring reports, both ad-hoc and monthly
- As part of any projects, assist with migration of virtual machines to Nutanix AHV as required.
- Advanced troubleshooting on the Nutanix AHV
- Provide route cause analysis, should issues arise in the environment
- Updating of architectural and system documentation.
- Knowledge transfer to the client staff