Role: SC Cleared Server & Storage Engineer
Duration: 3 Months
Location Warrington – Hybrid (3 days Remote)
Rate: Market Rates
Ref: DTJP00037301
We are seeking a highly skilled and versatile server & storage engineer. The successful candidate will possess expertise in hybrid environments (on-prem, Azure, SaaS). As well as lead the design, implementation and maintenance of resilient server & storage infrastructure that ensures optimal reliability, scalability, and performance. Expertise in virtualisation, storage, backups & VDI is essential.
About You:
You’re an experienced engineer, able to work diligently and autonomously with minimum supervision, leveraging your proactive initiative to project expert input into project initiatives (inc, infrastructure refreshes, new sites, migrations, transformations), as well as supporting operational issues.
Responsibilities:
• Design, implement, and manage resilient infrastructure solutions that ensure optimal reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Installing and configuring server hardware and software, ensuring systems are optimized for performance and security.
• Performing regular updates, patches and backups
• Maintaining records of server configurations, procedures, and changes for reference and compliance.
• Collaborate with other IT teams to support applications and ensure seamless integration.
• Train and mentor other team members, to ensure cross-training
Skills:
• Excellent knowledge of SAN solutions primarily NetApp build / configure & maintain
• Excellent knowledge of hosting platforms Dell PowerEdge Server & Cisco USC
• Excellent knowledge in the management and maintenance of VMWare based virtualised estates Clusters / HA / Replication / Distributed Switches / vCenter upgrades & host patching
• Experience in Veeam and other Backup technologies
• Experience in migrations for data & infrastructure.
• Good understanding of automation and scripting; comfortable creating PowerShell script for infrastructure automation and efficiencies.
• Skilled in using monitoring & alerting tools and configure dashboards, e.g. SolarWinds
• Good understanding of networking concepts (e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, VLANs,
• iSCSI).
• Good understanding of Activity Directory and GPOs Experience: 5+ years of experience working within a large
• enterprise estate (5,000+ users)
• Proven track record managing enterprise-grade infrastructure in a production environment
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Highly collaborative
• First-class communicator with management stakeholders and end users
Candidates must hold or be willing to undergo SC Clearance.
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