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 EXPERIENCE
Senior 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 & EXPERIENCE
HARDWARE
AS/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:
  • Nutanix (AHV)
  • VMware ESXi
• 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

 

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