The role
This six-month FTC offers an exciting opportunity to play a crucial role in supporting the ANS migrations team. In this position, you will collaborate with our project management, support, and infrastructure teams to provide physical-to-virtual migration services to our existing customers.
Your responsibilities will include overseeing the entire physical-to-virtual migration process and ensuring that our customers’ service expectations are met throughout. You will lead the development and execution of migration plans to transition our customers to our virtual cloud platform, acting as the primary technical and planning contact to ensure a smooth and successful migration experience.
What will I be doing?
- Work with the support teams to understand and map out the customers solution
- Build out simple migration plans in conjunction with the project managers and the customer
- Contribute to the rightsizing of migrated customer solutions
- Work with the support teams on developing complex migrations plans
- Perform prechecks, benchmarking and migration readiness testing
- Perform set up of new customer environments in our VMware cloud platform
- Perform manual data transfers between solutions
- Perform automated P2V migration using Veeam
- Conduct post migration QA testing and benchmarking, customer handover and signoff
- Innovating and aiding in the development of a new migration service
- Developing your expertise in practical cloud transformation, VMware-based private cloud solutions and Windows Server technology
What will I bring to the role?
- Experience installing, configuring, and supporting most of the following specifics:
- Windows Systems Administration
- Windows Server 2008/2012/2016/2019/2022
- Active Directory Domain Services
- Familiarity with Powershell, PowerCLI and/or fundamental scripting methodology
- Web/DB Technologies:
- IIS
- MSSQL
- FTP/FTPS/SFTP
- Mail management
- Web hosting security best practices
- Control Panels (Plesk)
- Hypervisors:
- Working Hyper-V knowledge
- VMWare ESXi and vSphere o Backups Technologies
- Commvault
- Bacula
- HA Technologies
- Load Balancing Widows Clustering
- SQL Clustering, Always On, Log Shipping
- Understanding of Veeam Backups and restore processes a benefit
- Experience completing physical to virtual migrations
Why work for ANS?
At ANS, we’ve created a place where everyone can be themselves, and we empower our people to get the job done. Openness, ambition, honesty, and passion are what drive us every day. We are bold, courageous, and innovative – and we do it like no other. We invest in our people. In training, development, health and more – we give you the benefits and flexibility to maintain a happy work-life balance.
We’re proud of the inclusive, fun, dynamic environment we’ve created. It’s a safe space that works for all. You don’t have to be a techie to work in tech. Bring your authentic self and find your dream role here. Find out more at LinkedIn pages.
What’s in it for you?
With fantastic benefits, an inclusive culture, and a cool office space, we’re your kind of workplace.
Company benefits
- As standard: 25 days’ holiday, plus you can buy up to 5 more days
- A little extra: we’ll give you your birthday off, and an extra celebration day for whatever you want! Tying the knot? You get 5 days’ additional holiday in the year you get married. Oh, and 5 volunteer days!
- Private health insurance
- Pension contribution match and 4 x life assurance
- Flexible working and work from anywhere for up to 30 days per year (some exceptions)
- Maternity: 16 weeks’ full pay, Paternity: 3 weeks’ full pay, Adoption: 16 weeks’ full pay
- Company social events – get ready for a jam-packed calendar
- Electric car scheme
- 12 days of personal growth development time
ANS are an equal opportunities employer. We encourage diversity and anyone applying for a role at our organisation can be assured that their application will be treated fairly, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, gender expression, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and sex or sexual orientation. We sometimes ask for information relating to individuals for equal opportunities monitoring purposes only.
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What We Do
We are ANS. We’re a strong team of straight-talking tech and business experts. Our mission is to make digital transformation accessible to all.
We make enterprise-grade technology, knowledge and processes accessible and affordable for all companies, large or small, no matter the size of their budget. We hack the tech adoption curve, bringing technology usually reserved for large corporates first, to small and medium organisations too. We’re on a mission to help companies Think Bigger.
We’re trusted by our customers because we help them achieve their goals. Be it a digital transformation project for a 2000-person government body or helping a 10-person labels maker take their business online.
Our people are the lifeblood of our business. They dream up solutions that have never been delivered before. They dare to tackle problems no one else can. Every day they wake up and challenge the status quo. It’s no wonder we’ve been hailed the mavericks of the tech industry.
