Beschreibung
Within Bechtle Switzerland, Bechtle IT Services is the specialist for IT Skills Management. We are supporting the IT-organization and IT-projects of our customers with qualified personnel, at the right time and with the appropriate amount of skilled resources.For one of our customers, a major pharmaceutical company, we are urgently looking for an experienced:
System Manager - Professional
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Project Background
You work for the "Application Packaging and Testing" Project in the companys informatics department. The "Windows 7 Program" has the goal to rollout Windows 7 to all ~80'000 users globally until ~end of 2011.
The "Application Packaging and Testing" Project is one of many projects of the Windows 7 Program. The project ensures the availability / transition of required software from the current Windows XP / NetInstall platform on/to the Windows 7 / SCCM platform. Software is either packaged and distributed via SCCM or are web applications or manually installed applications.
Task:
You work in one of the sub-teams of the "NGSC Application Packaging and Testing" Project. Your sub-team provides the Windows 7 test environment globally.
The test environment consists of different machines:
1. A farm of virtual machines (VMs), using VMware Workstation, which run on workstations in a nearby office and that you need to maintain and support (OS & VMs & hardware)
2. VMs of an ESX farm running in global data centers where you need to maintain the VMs (>400 VMs)
3. "normal" non-virtual machines for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) which require regular re-staging of a fresh standard OS image
You are responsible for the smooth operation of the test environment. You will maintain the environment as required, e.g. provide new snapshots of a new standard Windows 7 OS image, etc. You might need to scale up the test environment according to increased demand and make it ready for production. You might provide expert knowledge of the test environment to other regions that are building up additional test farm, in cooperation with us.
Special requirements:
- strong sense for quality, following defined processes and policies
- very good knowledge of OS virtualization and large experience with VMware products
- capable to detect / troubleshoot technical issues in a VMware environment
- highly self-organized and capable of setting the right priorities
- ability to work under pressure
- good communication skills with team members and IT organization
- team player in a large and dynamic team structure
- capable of adapting in a dynamic environment
- familiar with the concept of software package distribution
- experienced user of Windows 7 or Windows XP, MS Office, etc.
- languages: Fluent in English and German required
For further information or to apply, please send your documentation to:
preferably indicating your tariff per hour (all-inclusive) at the same time. Thank you!
We are looking forward to meeting you.