(Latam) ️ Senior Data Center and Cloud Engineer

**About us**:**Antelope Consulting is an IT consultancy and outsourcing firm based in the UK**. It has been providing **IT and database solutions** since 2004 predominantly in the financial marketplace.Put simply, Antelope Consulting can piece together all the elements for you. By using its **significant experience in this area**, we can significantly de-risk your project, along with providing guarantees of performance, stability, and scalability that few companies can provide.**Our proposal**:The Senior** Cloud and Data Center Engineer** manages and supports our client’s Virtualized Infrastructure stack, with Compute based on** **OpenStack and VMware vSphere and Storage based on NetApp / Ceph, as well as Cloud environments, primarily running on Google Cloud Platform and IaaS/PaaS providers, from Development through to ownership and support of Production environments.Additionally, the Engineer provides support with hardware purchases and deployment in different environments.The role requires** network knowledge** and the ability to work with** Network, System Administration departments to coordinate tasks and projects.****Scripting, automation, diagnostics, and performance tuning** are all responsibilities of the Senior Cloud and Data Center Engineer.**Your every day**:- Maintain and support a large Virtualized environment that hosts 2000+ VMs running VMware vSphere / vSAN 7.0+.- Deploy and manage VMware vSphere clusters in Production, Corporate, and Test environments.- Deploy and manage HPE server hardware, including maintenance and troubleshooting.- Manage Ceph storage clusters; perform maintenance and troubleshoot Ceph-related issues.- Capacity planning for the Compute and Storage infrastructure, able to define technical bills of materials.- Assist in designing, testing, implementation, and documentation of new infrastructure stacks.- Deploy and manage NetApp shared storage devices, including maintenance and incident resolution.- Conduct preventive maintenance on infrastructure to ensure efficient operations.- Maintain and support a backup infrastructure based on Veeam B&R 11+. Manage backup infrastructure such as proxies, repositories, jobs, following best practices.- Management of Cloud Infrastructure and Infrastructure as a Service solutions.- Interact with third party vendors & contractors, such as data center support and remote hands engineers. Work with stakeholders, project managers, and other teams to ensure system designs meet business requirements.- Participate on shared team on-call rotation.**It could be a perfect match if you have**:- Excellent **English and Spanish** verbal and written communication skills.- **5+ years** of overall IT experience with enterprise-level **virtualized environments**, designing, implementing and maintaining a **VMware vSphere ecosystem**.- Server **hardware knowledge** and experience, firmware, iLO/BMC, BIOS, PXE, RAID.- Experience in **data center operations** such as remote access, inventory management, rack layouts, structured cabling, hot/cold aisles, security and power.- Working knowledge of** networking**, including routing, switching and firewalls, subnets, addressing schemes, access rules, VLANs.- Ability to **creat**e and/or** **update processes, documentation and complex** **diagrams.**:- Experience operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting **Ceph clusters.**:- Solid understanding of **Linux/Unix** Administration.- Working knowledge of** OpenStack** environments.- Excellent **troubleshooting skills**, being able to navigate complex network and service topologies to** track down issues**.- Experience working in an** ITIL-based organization**.**It would be a plus**:- Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes is a plus.- VCP-DV Certificate is a plus.- Experience with Automation and Infra-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible is a plus.- Canonical/Ubuntu experience is a plus.**What do we offer?**- Diverse and international team- Fantastic opportunity for self-development, progress, and learning new technologies- USD payment- Training- Flexible working hours- 100% remote position