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Senior Systems Engineer - Virtualization

Job ID R0000024680 , United Kingdom

We are currently hiring a Senior Systems Engineer to join our team in the UK! This role can be home and/or office based and will work as part of a Global team. You will be a contributor in Global and Regional infrastructure projects with guidance from senior team members, work to ensure maximum uptime to essential systems, mentor junior staff members to promote standardization and project initiatives and work closely with other IT Management and technical staff to promote, evaluate and test Infrastructure solutions.

Key Accountabilities

  • Leads complex systems projects both regionally and globally 

  • Provide consultation and direction to IT Management and Infrastructure teams across multiple technology disciplines 

  • Escalation point for regional and global technical issues from junior team members and IT teams 

  • Responsible for technical management, operation and maintenance of Server infrastructure 

  • Monitors and maintains Systems and Services 

  • Investigates and resolves problems, inefficiencies, and performance issues 

  • Evaluates, tests, and recommends solutions 

  • Implementation of Systems and ensures quality standards 

  • Provides ongoing information to management and peers regarding the general health of the environment, as well as enhancements and innovations 

  • Keeps updated on industry trends and emerging technologies as applicable to Parexel

  • Keeps IT management abreast of any changes in the technologies which may impact our business 

Skills and Experience

  • 5 + years of experience in a Systems Engineering role

  • Required to have a solid understanding of VMware VSAN and VCF

  • Required to have a solid understanding of Cisco UCS hardware platforms

  • Solid understanding of networking and storage arrays/networks is desired

  • Solid understanding of Zerto is a plus


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