Parico is a growing technology start-up with a history of delivering innovative and secure solutions to UK Defence customers. Our team are motivated individuals that help each other do remarkable things every day. We face challenges together and we win together. At Parico, we deliver world-class solutions that transform the way that our armed forces use technology.

The Role:

Parico is seeking a talented a Senior Virtualisation Architect who is smart, curious and prospers against the challenge of working closely with a small business to solve complex and challenging problems across the UK defence landscape. You’ll have the freedoms to be truly innovative to roll up your sleeves, get stuck into the detail of systems, create demos and proof-of-concepts, and generally do what it takes to achieve incredible technical solutions to our customer’s complex problems.

Responsibilities include: 

• Demonstrable expertise in producing quality high and low level technical designs for virtualisation components:
  
  1. VMware ESXi
     • Distributed Virtual Switches
     • Distributed Resource Scheduler
     • Distributed Power Management
  2. VMware vSAN
     • All Flash storage configurations (RAID 1, 5 and 6)
     • VMware vCenter
     • High Availability
     • Clustering
     • Cross-site failure and resiliency
  3. VMware NSX-T
     • Microsegmentation Firewalling
     • Deployment and configuration of Tier 0 and Tier 1 Components
       
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing deep knowledge and experience.
• Lead technical and design discussions with senior stakeholders to help them speed their adoption of new technologies and practices.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Significant experience in designing Public Cloud Infrastructure projects using VMWare Cloud on AWS.
• Strong vSphere and Software Defined Datacentre (SDDC) deployment knowledge.
• Significant design, implementation and troubleshooting experience implementing networking solutions with VMWare NSX-T.
• Previous design experience with VMware Validated Designs (VVDs)
• Virtualisation and network abstraction technologies such as VMware Horizon (VDI) and multi-tenancy constructs.
• A comprehensive and detailed understanding of modern private cloud datacentre architectures, including detailed and extensive experience in configuring and deploying networks across a wide range of scenarios.
• Experience working with Dev-ops tools including;
  1. Jira
  2. Confluence
  3. BitBucket
• Have demonstrable sector knowledge or experience within UK Defence (Army, Air force or Royal Navy).
• Be bold and innovative in the approach to winning new business, growing existing business and fostering new relationships. 
• Hold strong leadership skills, to be able to lead and set direction for others and motivate a team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
• Ability to hold a minimum of UK Security Clearance (SC).
• Hold a UK Driving Licence and have a willingness to travel to client sites.

Essential Qualifications

• VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP), VMware Certified Professional (VCP) or similar.
• VMware Certified Professional - Network Virtualization (VCP-NV).
• AWS Solution Architect or similar.

Parico Benefits

As well as the opportunity to work closely with an SME at the forefront of the technology sector, you will also receive:

• 25 days’ standard annual leave, plus bank holidays.
• Private Health Care for the employee and family members.
• Life Insurance
• Private company pension scheme
• Recognition Scheme, volunteering - helping charities & local communities.
• Cycle to work scheme.