Systems Engineer Specialist

SUMMARY:
Psybergate is an IT company that builds bespoke software solutions and provides highly skilled resources to its clients.
We are looking for a Systems Engineer Specialist to join our financial services client based in Sandton for a 12-months contract role.

POSITION INFO:
What you will be doing: 
To provide specialist technical expertise and support in installing; testing; tuning; optimising; diagnosing problems; repairing; upgrading and maintaining both externally and internally supplied hardware and systems software (i.e. Operating systems; data management products; office automation products; embedded systems); and other utility enabling software and related equipment.
 

• High Level and Low-Level Design of PRD & DR hardware refresh (Server and Storage Converged Solution).120 Physical host deployments running VMware ESXi 7 and 8.
• Design and deploy VMware vSphere infrastructure
• HPE Synergy deployment and management
• Preferred: Business Continuity Solutions deployments – DR Implementations, Test and Failover using VMware and VEEAM Backup & Replication.
• Document best practices & architectural references for developing and deploying VMware solutions (including associated management tools, e.g. monitoring, provisioning, security and compliance, and DR).
• Support critical customer escalations.
• Determine gaps in existing infrastructure and ways to mitigate these gaps
• VMware Best Practise updates & upgrades
• Firmware upgrades and HDD upgrades
• Maintain technical documentation of the VMware, Hyper-V and Storage environments
• VMware – AWS integrations
• Veeam Backup and Replication deployment
• DELL Hardware maintenance and manage
• VMware esxi & vCenter upgrades

• Completed IT / BSc degree or other related field.
• 10 years' of extensive experience in enterprise infrastructure projects
• An experienced VMWare ESXI Host Engineer Specialist with at least 10 Years Experience
• Preferably with DELL and HP Hardware experience