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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