At PwC, our people in infrastructure focus on designing and implementing robust, secure IT systems that support business operations. They enable the smooth functioning of networks, servers, and data centres to optimise performance and minimise downtime. Those in cloud operations at PwC will focus on managing and optimising cloud infrastructure and services to enable seamless operations and high availability for clients. You will be responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting, and implementing industry leading practices for cloud-based systems.Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.
Skills
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
- Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
- Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
- Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
- Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
- Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
- Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
- Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
- Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.
Instructions
Please update areas marked in
red
Link to Tips & Tricks for Writing PwC Job Description
- Quick Tips for Reviewing your JD!
- Make sure you have the appropriate header sentence based on the level of the JD (i.e. Manager level role should start with appropriate descriptor “Demonstrates extensive abilities and/or a proven record of success as a team leader:” The appropriate header can be found in the Tips and Tricks document provided above.
- Be mindful of grammatical consistency; the list should either be all verb-driven or all noun-driven (but not both).
- When listing requirements under the required or preferred skills section, each sentence should end in a semi-colon (;) except for the last bullet which should end with a period (.)
Job Profile Name
Child Name
Global LoS
Global Network
Global Competency Network
Go-To-Market
Managed Services
Sector
Not Applicable
Programme Type
Experienced
Additional Responsibilities: (
This field may be used to describe the daily role, duties and/or purpose of this Job Profile/Job Description. The field is limited to 500 characters, including spaces.)
The Server Virtualization Administrator will be responsible for designing, deploying, operating, and maintaining our organization’s server virtualization platforms and related services. He/she will work closely with system, storage, backup, network and security teams to ensure our virtual infrastructure is highly available, performant, secure and aligned with business needs.
Minimum Degree Required
: Bachelors
Degree Preferred
Bachelors or master’s in science, Computer Science, Engineering
Minimum Years of Experience
: 4 -7 year(s)
Certifications Required
- Microsoft Learn completion for: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate or equivalent certification
Certifications Preferred
- Familiarity with configuration‐management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
- Knowledge of security best practices, vulnerability management, and compliance frameworks (e.g., CIS, NIST)
- Exposure to containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
Required / Mandatory Knowledge/Skills
: (character count limit 5000)
*PLEASE ONLY USE THIS FIELD IF THIS IS A MUST HAVE SKILL FOR APPLICANT*
- Install, configure and maintain virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware vSphere/ESXi, vCenter, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV or KVM)
- Provision, monitor and decommission virtual machines in accordance with capacity plans and business requests
- Perform platform upgrades and patches on hypervisors, management servers and tools
- Plan for and implement high availability, clustering, load-balancing and capacity expansion
- Develop and validate disaster-recovery and failover procedures, and perform regular DR tests
- Integrate virtualization with SAN/NAS storage solutions (iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NFS) and software-defined storage technologies
- Collaborate with network engineers to configure virtual switches, VLANs, VXLANs, and security zoning
- Automate routine tasks (provisioning, monitoring, reporting, patching) using PowerShell, Python or other scripting tools
- Monitor performance, capacity utilization, and resource contention, and proactively recommend tuning or additions
- Manage and test backup and restore processes for virtual machines (Veeam, Commvault, NetBackup, etc.)
- Implement security hardening standards, access controls, and audit logging for virtual infrastructure
- Troubleshoot hardware, OS and application issues in the virtual environment, liaising with server and application teams
- Maintain up-to-date architecture and support documentation, runbooks and change records
- Stay current on virtualization industry trends, tools and best practices; propose upgrades or new solutions
Preferred Knowledge/Skills
: (character count limit 5000)*
PLEASE MAKE THIS A BULLETED LIST WHERE EACH SENTENCE STARTS WITH THE SAME VERB TENSE (I.E. PROVIDES, DEVELOPS, FACILITATES, ETC.)
Should possess knowledge of following tools -
Vmware Virtual Center, Nutanix Prism Central, Vmware Aria Automation, Vmware Aria Operations, Tanzu Mission Control, Cisco UCS Central, Cisco UCS Manager, H. Kubernetes, I. Vmware Lifecycle Manager, Vmware Site Recovery Manager, Jfrog X-Ray, Portworx PXBackup
