Job Description

Cloud Services \xe2\x80\x93 Manager

About Us

Thrive is an innovative technology solutions provider focused on Cyber Security, Hybrid Cloud, Global Network Management, Disaster Recovery and traditional Managed Services. Our corporate culture, engineering talent, customer-centric approach, and focus upon NextGen services help us stand out among our peers. Thrive is on the look-out for individuals who don\'t view their weekdays spent at \'a job\' but rather look to develop valuable skills that ignite their passion and lead to a CAREER. If you\'re attracted to a work hard, play hard environment and seek the guidance, training and experience necessary to build a lucrative career, then welcome to THRIVE!

This role will include a healthy mix of project, design, and support work, for both internal & client initiatives as well as management of a small team. Candidates should be prepared to deal with a magnitude of different characters, and high-pressure front office trading environments. The role therefore requires a high degree of client facing skills and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Upkeep of the Thrive equipment within our data centre environments
• Deploy, Manage and monitor all systems and infrastructure.
• Line management of a small team
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.
• Monitor and test server performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with relevant team to implement those fixes.
• Deploy, Manage & Maintain Servers & SAN in DC.
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.
• Provide support to 3rd line Team.
• Liaise with vendors and clients for problem resolution.

Core Technical Skills

• Expert experience in implementation, administration and monitoring of VMWare vSphere (Esxi 6.7 & up, vCenter 6.7 & up with HA).
• Solid experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting Windows/Linux based environments.
• Solid experience in deploying, managing & troubleshooting Active Directory, GPO, Sites & Services, DFS, DFS-r, DNS & DHCP roles.
• Solid experience in deploying and managing Microsoft Exchange (2013 and up) in a highly available deployment across multiple sites.
• Solid experience in deploying, administration and performance tuning SAN, preferably HP Nimble Arrays.

Desirable skills

• Experience with DR technologies, experience with Zerto is beneficial.
• Solid experience in deploying & managing VDI solutions. (VMWare Horizon & Citrix)
• Experience with hardware and software load-balancing technologies. Experience with Netscaler is beneficial.
• Solid scripting skills using PowerShell, ARM template, Terraform and bat.
• Exposure with SQL Database Administration & Management,
• Solid Datacenter working experience and managing/maintaining large physical & virtual server fleets.
• Experience Installing & configuring Auditing applications like Netwrix.
• Public Cloud experience, preferably deploying Azure Infrastructure resources (VM\xe2\x80\x99s, vNets, Recovery service vaults, Storage Accounts, IAM, Azure AD, LB, VNG, Azure Virtual Desktop). Experience in Microsoft 365 & MDM is beneficial.
• Experience in AWS cloud platform. (EC2, FSx, VPC, S3 and Amazon Workspace) is beneficial.
• Experience
• Experience with Monitoring tools like Solarwinds & PRTG.

Education & Experience

• Over 5 years experience in supporting IT infrastructure estates
• Industry based certifications desirable

• VMWare: VCP
• Microsoft: MCSE, MSCA
• Microsoft Cloud: Azure Solutions Architect & M365
• AWS: Solutions Architect
• Citrix: CCP-V, CCA-A, CCA-N, CCA-P
• Cisco: CCNA

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