Job Description
Job Title: Infrastructure Storage Analyst - Spectrum Scale Location:1 day per month at Manchester office / can happen that the bank may ask candidate to visit Coventry's office at Birmingham in future for only 1 day per month Salary/Rate: £316 per day inside IR35 Start Date:Immediately Job Type: Initial 6 month contract
CANDIDATES MUST HAVE HANDS ON SPECTRUM SCALE EXPERIENCE
Company Introduction We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Infrastructure Storage Analyst with Spectrum Scale experience to join their banking client.
Job Responsibilities/Objectives The Infrastructure Analyst - Storage will join an already established Platform team, providing a level of technical knowledge to undertake the troubleshooting and resolution to production incidents or problems independently escalating to Senior Engineers if required. Completes tasks to agreed levels of quality, within stated timescales with minimal supervision. Looks for improvement opportunities within the team and its processes/procedures. An effective team member who provides support and guidance to peers and other team members. Contributes to team efficiency through the creation of accurate technical documentation where required
* Responsible for independently troubleshooting and resolving production service incidents
* Undertake technical tasks such as patching, allocating storage, maintaining scripts and configuring backups
* Effectively prioritise tasks to ensure high priority activities are completed first
Required Skills/Experience The ideal candidate will have the following:
* VMware + enterprise skills like vRealize, SRM, operations manager
* CISCO UCS infrastructure (compute, networking and storage combined into a single unit)
* Good knowledge of storage technologies vSAN and VxRail
* Experience with Linux command line technologies, as IBM Storage operates on a Unix interface.
* Familiarity with Spectrum Scale protocols, including GPFS, NFS, and SMB in an active-active topology.
* Exposure to and application of cluster management within Spectrum Scale
* Familiarity with Spectrum Scale protocols, including GPFS, NFS, and SMB in an active-active topology.
* Exposure to and application of IBM Flash Systems - knowledge and experience of replication using global mirror, metro mirror and change volumes
* Exposure to and application of cluster management within Spectrum Scale, Oracle and ESXi environments
* Exposure to and application Spectrum Scale - protocols to include GPFS, NFS, and SMB in active-active topology
* Explore to or awareness of GKLM (SKLM)
* Provision and redaction of storage across the IBM storage estate - all technologies
* Experience of working with Linux command line technologies
* Experience of ticket management using ServiceNow
* An appreciation of Cloud technologies (AWS) and associated features
* Knowledge of AWS server administration and features
* An understanding of VMware products including vSphere, vRealize & related technologies
* An understanding of Cisco UCS & HPE infrastructure
* An understanding of virtualisation architectures and some experience supporting
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.
Disclaimer Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies. Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.