Infrastructure Environments Provisioning Consultant

Recruiter:

A 1L Realization (Pty) Ltd

Job Ref:

JHB000168/Tshid

Date posted:

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

SUMMARY:
Our client In the Telecoms sector requires a Infrastructure Environments Provisioning Consultant on a 12 months’ contract who will assist in Planning and Maintaining capacity on infrastructure building blocks. Identify initiatives that will free up capacity (over allocated environment or unused environments). Identify initiatives that will reduce Software Licensing requirements (Server virtualisation, Core reduction on Enterprise Platforms Etc.) Manage capacity based on organic growth and project related requirements.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Role Overview:

Manage portfolio of environments provisioning supporting all Internal IT systems to ensure efficient use of system resources and correct versions are being utilized across multiple environments
Work with different IT teams across infrastructure, and other business divisions to deliver Environment provisioning management and optimal usage of systems & solutions to the business
The Environment Provisioning will collaborate with the technical leads, project managers, release managers, service availability managers, testing services and various groups to understand IT infrastructure requirements of a project track or cross-track initiative for optimal planning, environment usage, and execution of the tasks leading to successful implementation, validation testing and turnover of environments
The Environment Provisioning will plan and initiate requests for various application and infrastructure deployments, ensure their timely implementation, and validate that they are working as intended, as a component, or as part of an overall environment

Deliverables:

Highly Critical environment needing core focus on Tactical and Operations Plans for Security Threats/Risks, Backup/Recovery, Business Continuity, Capacity Management, and other disciplines
Convergence of IS and Telco and the move to ICT
Complex interfaces between both internal and external technologies and service providers
High change rate of IT technologies and architecture
Conflicting demands between business and technology
Pressure to increase agility and reduce operational cost
Chair EPF (environments provisioning Forum).
Dealing & communicating with multiple departments within our organization.
Vetting of all architectural design documentation. Ensuring all build documents are uploaded to SharePoint once completed
Automation of all EPF process.
Understanding underlying technical topologies, including (Databases, Networking, Storage, virtualization, Hardware, HCi/MCi, load balancers & Firewalls)
Knowledge of Data centre layout & design
Ensuring the workflow is working correctly for commission & decommission
Responsible for all build documents end product. All info on build document needs to be correct.
Ensuring meeting minutes are sent out weekly. Sending out weekly report on all commissions and decommissions.
Setting up of external meeting with vendors or person outside of EPF.
Running with adhoc requests outside of EPF eg: Cpu/memory/storage increase. Closing of all tickets and changes once actions are completed.
Review EPM PPP’s document twice a year with management.
Knowledge of different clusters and their functions for PSi, SSi, HCi &MCi
Following all IS internal process and policies including ITIL/ITOM/ITSM process.
Maintaining and updating CI’s within CMDB.
Maintaining and updating of Naming standard document for SA & Group
Ensure EPF meeting invites are sent out. Dealing with all IS Operational teams if required.
In conjunction with Internal Audit and IT Security, ensure business objectives and risks are effectively managed.

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