Job Description

What will be your role and responsibilities?

• Able to understand complex application architecture/dependencies (CA related) and the impact it can have on a VDI environment
• Designing VDI solutions to support business requirements based on guidelines
• Design Ansible playbooks to meet business requirements for CA-Application performance (VDI
• deployment / Public- and Private Cloud)
• Responsible for VDI operations & maintenance in a hybrid cloud architecture
• Understanding CA Data Management / Follow the Data as an VDI deployment approach
• Driving possible VDI automation topics (deployment / resource management / asset management)
• Defining specific engineering roles for VDIs matching their exact application needs and supporting the partner onboarding process (e.g. Crash Test simulation)
• Understanding global engineering (ItO) resource demands and consulting / designing the optimal VDI
• solution
• Driving CA VDI cloud strategy towards constant state of the art architectural design
• Perform housekeeping/monitoring/managing of the VDI platforms focusing on stability/performance
• as well as cost optimization
• Defining self service requests in ServiceNow portals for VDI demands (e.g. resizing, additional VDI,
• Platform switch)
• Perform reporting of/forecast overall CA VDI demands (related to user requirements / platforms)
• Supporting and consulting applications owners on specific cloud migration requests with a focus on VDIs
• Manage Problem, Incident and Change process for dedicated ITSM service
• Upon demand willing to work on weekends (changes)
• Operate and maintain scripts (e. g. deletion)
• Keep documentation up to date in all relevant systems (e. g. as is configuration CMDB/Application
• Instance Wizard, to be configuration Connect IT, knowledge database resolveIT)
• Attend and moderate operation meetings
• Coordinate external contractors
• Manage security vulnerabilities

Essential skills requirements:

• Experience in Confluence, Jira and Bitbucket/GitHub
• Experience in Unix, Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu) and Windows
• Experience in mounting technologies such as Autofs and DFS
• Knowledge of protocols NFS and CIFS
• Experience in CAD & CAE
• Knowledge of Virtualisation technologies such as VMWare Horizon / ESXi / Cloud Foundation
• Experience in cloud migration technologies including Azure Public Cloud and Automation
• Experience in dealing with stakeholder and architectural technical issues
• Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter

Advantageous skills requirements:

• Experience in ServiceNow ITSM Suite
• Experience in provider and supplier steering and KPI delivery
• Experience in Automation and AI
• Knowledge in agile working model (AWM) Framework and dedicates roles
• Knowledge in DevOps Working and steering in/of teams
• Knowledge in migrating complex VDI environments (e.g. platform switch)
• Knowledge of LINUX Redhat / Ubuntu Operating systems running in a virtualisation environment in
• High Performance configurations
• Knowledge of storage technologies like emc2 and NetApp
• Knowledge of Systems Management such as scVENUS and Ansible
• Knowledge of Ansible Tower, playbook design and deployment
• Knowledge of Public Cloud Technologies such as Azure and AWS
• Knowledge of Private Cloud solutions
• Knowledge of Handling sensitive data (Data Security & Privacy) to ensure confidentiality of productive data
• Knowledge of Directory Access Manager (DIVA)
• Knowledge of Intelligent Storage Orchestration Environment (iStore) and Active Directory Gruppentool (ADGR)
• Basic knowledge of Active Directory/LDAP
• Professional communication and documentation skills
• Experience in coordination and steering decentral international teams
• Good knowledge of ITSM Suite and ITIL processes
• Basic knowledge of ServiceNow (ITSM.next)
• Knowledge of agile working in Scrum and Kanban Mode
• Deep knowledge of operation and maintenance of web applications (programming)
• Knowledge and understanding of programming languages such as Java, Python, Perl

If you are a motivated individual with the necessary qualifications and experience, we invite you to submit your CV to

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