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As a Compute / IaaS SME – Lifecycle Management, you will
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Recruiter: Giftson Paul Davidson
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- Design, deploy, and configure greenfield Cisco UCS domains, including Fabric Interconnects, chassis, blade servers, X-Series nodes, VICs, service profiles, pools, and policies using UCS Manager and Cisco Intersight.
- Build, standardize, and upgrade VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environments, including ESXi, vCenter, vSphere Distributed Switches (vDS), vSAN, and enterprise storage solutions.
- Create and maintain standardized ESXi golden images, driver and firmware bundles, custom ISOs, host profiles, and cluster configuration baselines.
- Execute workload migrations using vMotion and Storage vMotion, coordinating with Site Recovery Manager (SRM) or HCX where applicable.
- Configure and upgrade Cisco MDS storage switches and manage firmware lifecycle activities.
- Lead firmware, driver, ESXi, vCenter, and VMware Cloud Foundation upgrades while ensuring compatibility, availability, and business continuity.
- Validate hardware compatibility and interoperability across firmware, drivers, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, and NSX before executing changes.
- Perform rolling upgrades, cluster compliance remediation, security patching, post-upgrade validation, and performance checks.
- Automate infrastructure builds, upgrades, health checks, and compliance reporting using PowerCLI, Python, Ansible, and REST APIs.
- Maintain Infrastructure-as-Code configurations and version-controlled infrastructure baselines using Git.
- Enforce infrastructure security standards, vulnerability remediation, access controls, certificate management, and ITIL-based change, incident, and problem management.
- Prepare technical documentation, including as-built documents, runbooks, method of procedure (MOP), test plans, rollback procedures, and architecture diagrams.
- 6–8 years of hands-on experience with Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere in large enterprise environments.
- Strong expertise in Cisco UCS architecture, including Fabric Interconnects (63xx/64xx/65xx series), B-Series M5/M6 blade servers, X-Series M8 systems, VICs, service profiles, pools, and policies.
- Practical experience with Cisco UCS Manager and Cisco Intersight for infrastructure deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management.
- Deep knowledge of VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), and cluster administration.
- Experience with vSAN, iSCSI, Fibre Channel (FC), NFS storage, multipathing, and enterprise storage connectivity.
- Strong understanding of VLANs, vSphere Distributed Switches, LACP, MTU, and virtualized infrastructure networking.
- Experience managing ESXi images, firmware and driver compatibility, host profiles, cluster configurations, and infrastructure upgrades.
- Hands-on experience with vMotion, Storage vMotion, and workload migration with minimal service disruption.
- Experience configuring and upgrading Cisco MDS storage switches.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across UCS fabrics, VICs, boot issues, PCI passthrough, vDS, vSAN disk groups, and ESXi PSOD incidents.
- Knowledge of infrastructure security, VMware hardening guidelines, CVE patching, role-based access control, and audit compliance.
- Lead end-to-end infrastructure deployment, upgrades, and lifecycle management activities independently.
- Validate hardware and software compatibility and assess risks before implementing infrastructure changes.
- Plan and execute maintenance windows, rolling upgrades, migrations, and rollback procedures while maintaining business continuity.
- Automate repetitive infrastructure tasks using PowerCLI, Python, Ansible, Cisco Intersight APIs, and vCenter REST APIs.
- Develop and maintain reusable infrastructure configurations, golden builds, compliance scripts, and operational dashboards.
- Produce clear technical documentation, operational procedures, and architecture diagrams.
- Collaborate effectively with infrastructure, networking, storage, security, and operations teams.
- An opportunity to work on enterprise-scale Cisco UCS and VMware infrastructure.
- Exposure to advanced virtualization platforms, VMware Cloud Foundation, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
- Opportunities to contribute to infrastructure automation, standardization, and operational excellence.
- A collaborative technical environment focused on reliability, security, and continuous improvement.
Want to discuss this opportunity in more detail? Feel free to reach out.
Recruiter: Giftson Paul Davidson
Phone: +31 20 369 0609 ; Extn : 151
E-mail:
LinkedIn: