Infrastructure Operations Engineer

Do you want to play an important role in achieving our exciting goal of directing the transition towards a world powered by sustainable energy? Do you want to make a difference and create a business impact? Then look at this exciting opportunity to develop your career at Vestas. For the last 40 years, Vestas has worked enthusiastically to develop solutions to address both the climate crisis and the world's growing need for energy. Today, as Vestas works towards becoming the global leader in sustainable energy solutions, with wind at its core, Vestas remains as committed to protecting the environment as we were in 1979 when we installed the very first wind turbine. Ensuring a healthy planet for future generations is a key part of what Vestas does. Vestas is committed to taking a leading role in bringing electrification and decarbonization beyond the power sector, and our vision, "Global leader in sustainable energy solutions," is being implemented globally. As part of this vision, our Digital Solutions are strengthening focus on accelerating digital product development. You will be part of the Datacenter & Cloud Engineering and Services team (DCES), who are responsible for Datacenter and Cloud Platforms.

Vestas Digital Solutions is responsible for a wide range of activities all related to driving and promoting the digital agenda. The DCES team accelerates digital product development by providing a secure and enterprise-ready infrastructure.

Digital Employee Experience & Infrastructure as a Service > DataCenter & Cloud Engineering and Services > DataCenter & Cloud, engineering and services - Technical Area

Responsibilities

In your position as an Infrastructure Engineer, your primary responsibility will be to:

• Define, evaluate, plan, forecast, measure, maintain, and improve all aspects of the availability of services
• Coordinate changes to service, configuration items, organizational change, supplier change, and associated documentation
• Coordinate the response to incident reports, ensuring relevant prioritization and detail to allow effective investigation
• Ownership of problems and proactively resolving technical problems
• Manage PaaS solutions, such as Azure and other various web platforms in the data center
• Deploy and configure services/applications in on-prem and cloud setups
• Design and present platform architecture for projects that you participate in
• Collaborating and aligning with other engineers and stakeholders to identify and address technical challenges and opportunities, and ensure that our platforms live up to our business needs and goals 
• Evaluating and selecting appropriate tools and technologies for use in our infrastructure, including cloud computing platforms, version control systems, automation tools, and monitoring and logging tools 
• Integrating selected tools and technologies into our infrastructure and supporting their use by our development and operations teams 
• Derive Platform needs from business dialogues
• Contribute to Platform roadmap and contribute to improving capabilities within the area
• Provide feedback regarding development or engineering methodologies, standards, and leading practices
• Maintain and spread the DevOps culture and ways of working across Vestas

Qualifications

You have:

• Experience with remote Server operation in an on-premises data center
• Expertise in general Operating System operation, Windows, Redhat, Suse, etc. for physical and virtual workloads, both on-premises and in a Cloud scenario
• Knowledge in Storage and Backup solutions for both, on-premises data centers as well as Azure Cloud solutions, e.g. Azure Backup, Commvault
• Experiences in working with Service-now and Azure DevOps
• Experience in working with IaaS and PaaS in Microsoft Azure such as Managed SQL web apps, etc.
• Knowing Core Web Platform Services like Azure WebApps, IIS, and NGINX
• Experience in Microsoft Azure or other cloud services
• Coding knowledge for the automation of infrastructure, including experience with:
  • Terraform/Pulumi/Ansible, or other similar declarative and idempotent IaC tools
• Experience with Agile ways of working and experience with Microsoft Azure in a DevOps team structure
• Good knowledge and practical experience in agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban

Competencies

Working in Infrastructure & Platform Management naturally requires a solid technical understanding of IT infrastructures such as on-premise data center technologies as well as integrated hybrid solutions and platform services.

On a personal level, we expect that you have/are:

• An open-minded and curious person with good communication skills combined with an innovative and problem-solving approach to completing tasks
• You speak up and are an individual contributor during agile ceremonies
• You get energy from working in a highly fast-paced international company with a highly diverse team
• Aspiration to take on upskilling continuously and interested in investing time in doing so
• Ability to take ownership and effectively engage in continuous improvements within a broader perspective
• A team-oriented person who shows a flexible approach to the tasks at hand and wants to contribute to the common benefit of the team
• Taking a collaborative approach to problem-solving by anticipating issues before they occur

What we offer

We offer you an exciting role with great professional and personal development opportunities in an inspiring, progressive, international work environment at an established manufacturer of wind turbines. We offer attractive company perks like fitness subsidy, health insurance, pension, life insurance, medical allowance, travel allowance, internet allowance, etc. We have a modern, inspiring office overlooking Manila Bay, conveniently located near public transport. We believe in work-life balance and plan annual offsite outings, team building, and sports events. In Vestas, you will experience an innovative environment where no days are ever the same, strengthening your personal as well as professional growth.

Additional Information

We do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including before the advertised closing date. Please be advised to apply on or before the 31st of May 2024.

Additional Benefits

• Fitness Subsidy
• Retirement Benefit Plan

About Vestas
Vestas is the energy industry’s global partner on sustainable energy solutions. We are specialised in designing, manufacturing, installing, and servicing wind turbines, both onshore and offshore. 
Across the globe, we have installed more wind power than anyone else. We consider ourselves pioneers within the industry, as we continuously aim to design new solutions and technologies to create a more sustainable future for all of us. With more than 173 GW of wind power installed worldwide and 40+ years of experience in wind energy, we have an unmatched track record demonstrating our expertise within the field. 
With 29,000 employees globally, we are a diverse team united by a common goal: to power the solution – today, tomorrow, and far into the future. 
Vestas promotes a diverse workforce which embraces all social identities and is free of any discrimination. We commit to create and sustain an environment that acknowledges and harvests different experiences, skills, and perspectives. We also aim to give everyone equal access to opportunity. 
To learn more about our company and life at Vestas, we invite you to visit our website at www.vestas.com and follow us on our social media channels. We also encourage you to join our Talent Universe to receive notifications on new and relevant postings.