Comprehensive platform engineering and support experience biased towards the Microsoft server technology portfolio, including On-premise bare metal hardware deployments (preferably HPE), Advanced virtualisation design, architecture and support with VMWare, Microsoft, and containerisation with Kubernetes. This should also include enterprise integration experience with security, high availability, networking, load balancing aspects to deliver applications and infrastructure.
Experience and proficiency in translating requirements through to providing and supporting solutions and environments for both proprietary and commercial software
Platform engineering and support experience with public cloud platforms, preferably with a major Hyperscaler like Microsoft Azure or AWS.
Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code methodologies with On-Prem and Cloud IaaS, achieved through automation and orchestration of cross-platform services using tools such as Source Control, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform and ServiceNow.
Demonstrable scripting or programming skills in languages such as PowerShell, Python and familiarity with APIs and data structures in JSON/YAML or similar.
Experience with GenAI technologies on-premise using Nvidia GPU or via Public Cloud, OpenAI, AWS, etc
I was asked a question about sites and services in Active Directory and to explain how replication works between Domain Controllers in Active Directory (KCC and ISTG nominating a bridgehead server in each site to create replication connections). I was asked about VSphere and why i had not used VSphere 7, but had used V3/4/5/6/6.5 and 8?????.
I was asked about managing on prem SAN Storage, namely Compellent.....which i dont give a shit about. Who the fuck ignores EMC, NetApp, 3PAR and chooses Compellent?. the same kind of idiot who thought Hyper-V was better than VMware for the last decade but who has now decided in 2024 to migrate to Vmware, but not the latest version of Vmware but an older version which is due to go out of support in 12 months time. Vsphere 7. Brilliant stuff. Keep up the good work.
I also threw in some examples of work i had done to migrate on-prem Windows infrastructure in AWS EC2 but that was ignored. I mentioned deployment usingTerraform but that was ignored. I mentioned source control using Git and automation using Ansible but that was ignored and he seemed completely disinterested.
WHY have you not used VSphere 7, which came out 4 years ago and was superseded by VSphere 8 nearly 2 years ago???!!!!.
What are you most interested in, on-prem or Cloud???!!!.
- errr.....Cloud please,
NO!!!!, WRONG ANSWER!!!!. We want people who are only interested in Windows 2016 running on premises on our own servers connected to a SAN, or running on Hyper-V connected to a SAN, or VMs soon to be migrated to a 4 year old version of Vsphere (not the latest version 8), running on our servers in our own DC connected to our own SAN storage!.
After the interview i recall him being almost annoyed when i mentioned anything Cloud...ish, and then I started to wonder if I had read the job spec of another role and got it mixed up with these fellas. I had not. It mentions Cloud and terraform and IaC and Git and AWS through it and multiple times.
no wonder they have not filled the role in 3 months. That idiot needs to read the job spec for the role. There is a disconnect between what he is asking, and what the job spec is asking. He must be wondering why every candidate keeps mentioning Cloud tech.....and its probably making him feel rather inadequate. I might as well be speaking Gaelic.
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