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Infrastructure Engineer - Wintel & Azure Administration
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Company Description
At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.
Position Overview
Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in four categories: apparel, home, accessories and fragrances. For 50 years, Ralph Lauren's reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company's brand names, which include Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Ralph Lauren Collection, Double RL, Polo Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children’s, Ralph Lauren Home, Lauren Ralph Lauren, RLX, American Living and Chaps, constitute one of the world's most widely recognized families of consumer brands.
Ralph Lauren’s Technology group is focused on building & leveraging high-quality technology solutions to enhance business & digitization opportunities across channels and geographies.
The Engineer, reports to the Manager, Infrastructure Delivery and will form part of a global technology authority.
We’re looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to join a highly respected organization to work as part of a team to assure and deliver server technologies for a range of projects and BAU operations. The successful candidate will lead complex solution delivery for IT projects, working with in-house development teams and/or third parties to design, develop and implement infrastructure solutions. They lead on their own group of technologies and support in delivering the strategic roadmap for their technology area.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Ensures the team delivers consistent, high-quality practices and standards
- Ensures proactive and reactive management of operational incidents, problems and changes
- Acts as point of authority for fault management, technical direction and/or strategy
- Monitors and interprets team and system performance, identifying and implementing improvement
- The successful candidate will interface with Business Team(s) to capture, understand and define their technical requirements, then design and execute appropriate solutions to meet those requirements.
- Effective delivery into projects with tight deadlines, embedding yourself within the project team to ensure successful delivery
Experience, Skills & Knowledge
5+ years of experience with Nutanix, VMware & Windows Server Administration
2+ years of experience with Azure and or AWS
Experience of the following technologies with the aptitude to take on the development and support of new technologies and vendors: -
- Expert level knowledge of NUTANIX and VMware technologies and concepts including Prism, ESXi and virtual storage
- Excellent knowledge of Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016+ systems administration in virtual and physical presentations
- Excellent knowledge of VBScript/Powershell for Windows & Power CLI
- Knowledge of Microsoft Configuration Management tools including SCCM and Intune
- Knowledge in setting up Nutanix hardware and Hypervisor
- Knowledge of migrating workloads from VMware to Nutanix
- Knowledge of Nutanix, Cisco, HPE hardware and management systems
- Knowledge of Hyperflex hardware and management systems
- Knowledge of Azure and AWS technologies and capabilities
The ideal candidate should also have an understanding, and ideally experience of: -
- Cloud infrastructures, Hybrid deployments and the concept of Software Defined Data Centre.
- Hands on experience with Nutanix infrastructure ( Cluster, Prism/Element/Central )
- DB technologies (Oracle and SQL) in a virtual and physical presentation
- WireShark, TreeSpace, Solarwinds, SCOM
- Beginner/ Intermediate knowledge in Devops concepts, Terraform, IAC.
As the ideal candidate you will possess experience of 24/7 operations in a similar sized organisation. You will have specialist knowledge of the above technologies and experience of the following experience: -
- Operational experience of large multi-technology environments to a demanding enterprise retail business
- Extensive experience in operational management including process management, pre-emptive maintenance and Prob/Inc/Change management.
- A globally distributed delivery function, global accounts and accompanying service support models
- Complex multi-vendor solution management and a mixed service support model utilising In-house, and external 3rd parties
- Independent research on the capability of technology or domain platforms including cost, license structure, benefits and considerations
- Understanding & ensuring application dependencies are documented and dealt with appropriately.
