About the Role

We’re the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. We are the way the world moves value – across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organization can address the scale, precision, pace and trust that this demands, and we’re proud to support the global economy.

We’re unique too. We were established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value – a reliable, safe and secure approach that the community can trust, completely. We’re always striving to be better and are constantly evolving in an ever-changing landscape, without undermining that trust. Five decades on, our vibrant community reflects the complexity and diversity of the financial ecosystem. We innovate diligently, test exhaustively, then implement fast. In a connected and exciting era, our mission has never been more relevant. Swift now has a presence in 200+ countries and legal territories to serve a community of more than 12,000 banks and financial institutions.

We are hiring a Chapter Lead for the Platform Services Organization (PSO)! PSO is organized as an Agile ‘Tribe’ within Tech Platform group. Our mission is to provide compute, storage, connectivity and database as a service to our application delivery teams.

If you are an expert in virtualization technology ready to lead a small team of hard-working engineers, then keep reading below. Even if you are not sure about being an exact fit, we want to talk to you!

What to expect

Team/Chapter Lead (approximately 50% of your time)

As Chapter Lead, you will manage approximately 8-12 infrastructure engineers who are assigned to squads that specialize in Openshift/Kubernetes, Redhat Linux, Virtualization technology, Storage Arrays and systems backup.

• You will perform people management activities, such as recruitment, assign engineering resources, set objectives, conduct performance appraisals
• You will ensure best practices and recent trends are applied within the team, in terms of technologies and DevOps principles
• You will follow future trends via education, conferences or articles
• Build a culture of excellence and continuous learning, of knowledge & experience sharing between the members, allowing professional growth of the chapter members
• Build a network outside the chapter, maintain relationships with all relevant partners
• Orchestrate the feedback collection and foster a positive feedback culture

Virtualization Engineer (approximately 50% of your time)

• As a Virtualization Engineer, you will work with the Product Owner and Squad members to design, implement, test and maintain of our VMware Platform
• As a ‘hands-on’ member of the squad with strong interest in keep your technical skills current, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of our VMware Platform
• You will work as a squad member making use of your IT infrastructure engineering expertise to deliver infrastructure as a service to our internal customers.
• You will help to orchestrate the sound engineering of the underlaying platforms, automation and deliver as a service.
• You may be part of the on-call rotation within your squad to help resolve critical service incidents and restoration of time-critical services.

Requirements:

• Bachelors’ degree or masters’ degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience) - Essential
• Experience in designing, implementing, and managing VMware infrastructure - Essential
• Hands-on experience with VMware products (including ESXi 7.0 and newer, Aria Operations, Aria Operations of Logs and Aria Automation) - Essential
• Infrastructure performance tuning at hypervisor level, debugging and fixing – Essential
• Network troubleshooting (in particular IPv4) – Essential
• Good Knowledge of PowerShell and the PowerCli library – Essential
• Block storage and FC SAN experience – Nice to have
• Basic Linux skills – Nice to have
• HPE ProLiant experience – iLO, HPE OneView – Nice to have
• DevOps / IAC tools experience – Terraform, Ansible – Nice to have
• Relevant industry certifications
• Autonomous, driven, with strong ability to quickly adapt and respond to change.
• Customer oriented and quality mentality – as we continually strive to deliver true customer value.
• Open-minded, solutions oriented, and a great teammate – gaining energy through collaboration with others.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written).    

What we offer

We put you in control of career

We give you a competitive package

We help you perform at your best

We help you make a difference

We give you the freedom to be yourself

We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals – like you – with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. An environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential regardless of age, background, culture, colour, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran/military status.