Job Description

Role Purpose:
Apply platform engineering expertise, critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to produce well-organized, optimized, and documented source code that successfully delivers platform features and components of the service and solves complex technical problems with high quality solutions.

Qualifications

-Demonstrable experience in server hardware, VMware, Linux Server, and Windows Server in a large enterprise function.
-VMware certification is required (must be current). AWS certification is advantageous.
Requirements

-Positively contribute to, define, and implement the development/engineering lifecycle (end to end) and lead lifecycle improvements over successive releases.
-Produce simple, extensible, and maintainable features with very few defects.
-Continually works to find and fix defects.
-Leverage platform (service design and code) and engineering technical expertise to proactively identify risks and prevent defects.
-Identify patterns that reveal errors and unanticipated problems, and influence telemetry analytics design decisions Identify and Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code.
-Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure.
-Apply object by orientated design in development and draw from a large base of design patterns.
-Uphold our technical principles of self-service, scalability, re-usability, resilience & stability in all development practices and deliver feature sets that sustainably deliver on these principles.
-Apply knowledge and expertise in User / Customer experience to deliver a stable user experience in all design and development that is simple, elegant, and useful.
-Proactively identify development practices that work well & leverage and improve these for future solution design and deployment.
-Document feature set and constituent design information to produce solution design blueprints and validation collateral Based on engineering & platform expertise and a sound knowledge of the business & customer requirements consistently provide key ideas for the enhancement & optimization of the platform.
-Develop & document complete designs and implement testing processes that identify and eradicate platform or service-wide problems / improve on platform performance.
-Demonstrate a strong commitment to the quality and ongoing quality assurance of the product/services in use and take appropriate action.
-Ensure alignment to platform and service release plans for effective deployment of solution designs.
-Drive and implement design review processes & practices with the team & participate & positively contribute to design reviews for the feature area led by others.
-Apply expertise in engineering and available technologies to enable effective review processes Cascade review lessons learnt for the benefit of the broader team.
-Enable problem resolution across technical teams, apply and or facilitate root cause analysis, deeply understand the root causes of issues, and find ways to resolve them (sustainably).
-Continuously review and find ways to optimize team processes & improve engineering quality, productivity, and team responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities.
-Optimize, refactors and reuse components to improve performance and maintainability ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment.
-Take accountability for maintaining platform standards and best practices, and drive adoption across multiple service teams.
-Demonstrate knowledge of, identify and find required data for the ongoing monitoring & improvement of the platform feature area.
-Proactively monitor the performance of the platform features & solutions.
-Translate monitoring data into clearly articulated descriptions of opportunities & defects, their impact to the customer scenario and to the product or service as a whole, and the relevance to product and service targets (within scope of the job).
-Cascade and communicate these insights across the team to influence platform decision making.
-Leverage production performance monitoring and customer data to make feature area technical design and implementation decisions.
-Synthesize data from multiple sources and present and define concise, impactful conclusions that influence feature teams to solve defects and meet quality targets.
-Accountability: Financial & Cost Optimization, Risk and Governance
-Understand the platform cost model and the optimal cost : serve of the platform, use this understanding to drive the platform efficiency and effectiveness objectives.
-Participate in incident management and DR activity applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents Apply Group risk (e.g., Architecture, development, change and release etc.), governance, compliance and regulatory standards and frameworks.
-Proactively identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during and post release) Update / Design all feature documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks.
-Proactively and effectively (time and quality) collaborate and drive collaboration on features across feature team (e.g., managing dependencies & interdependencies, conflict resolution, information & best practice sharing, problem resolution outside of own area etc.).
-Apply collaboration skills in development practices & issue resolution regardless of team boundaries and lead communication with relevant stakeholders through to conclusion.
-Contribute to a high-performance team environment & culture as a high performing member of a self-directed team aligned to agile working Leverage coaching techniques in all team related activity to drive a higher quality service, design, and deployment of technical solutions.
-Proactively seek and provide feedback across a range of stakeholders for the benefit of the team & leverage feedback to consistently improve platform solution delivery.
Core VMware competencies:

-vSphere (ESX, vCenter) Aria Automation 8 (vRA)
-Troubleshooting, integration, orchestration
-ritical Aria Automation Config (Salt)
-Troubleshooting and integration - critical VMware NSX - beneficial.
-Cisco UCS (Intersight managed).
-Working knowledge of Pure storage, Arista and/or Cisco Data Centre Networking, Dell Open Manage (not critical, but definitely useful).

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