City of Bristol, United Kingdom | Posted on 20/04/2026
Contract Location: West Midlands, East Midlands, Sheffield, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Bath, Bristol, Somerset
Contract Working Model: Hybrid - 1 day a week
Contract Duration: 3 months initially (potential for extension)
Contract Start Date: Immediate
Contract Classification: Inside IR35
We are looking for a Storage-focused Infrastructure Engineer with experience across IBM FlashSystems and Spectrum Scale.
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 when required.
Key Responsibilities
* Completes tasks to agreed levels of quality, within stated timescales with minimal supervision.
* Looks for improvement opportunities within the team and its processes/procedures.
* Acts as 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.
* Undertakes technical tasks such as patching, allocating storage, maintaining scripts and configuring backups.
* Effectively prioritises tasks to ensure high‑priority activities are completed first.
Required Skills and Experience
Demonstrable level of knowledge in their chosen technical discipline. Essential experience of working in a complex, pressured production environment. Financial services experience would be desirable but not essential.
Essential skills
* 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 of Spectrum Scale protocols – including GPFS, NFS and SMB in active‑active topology.
* Exploration to or awareness of GKLM (SKLM).
* Awareness of how actions can affect availability.
* Provision and redaction of storage across the IBM storage estate – all technologies.
* Experience working with Linux command‑line technologies.
* Experience with ticket management using ServiceNow.
* An appreciation of cloud technologies (AWS) and associated features.
* Knowledge of AWS server administration and features.
* Some experience working within an Agile delivery environment.
* Understanding of VMware products including vSphere, vRealize & related technologies.
* Understanding of Cisco UCS & HPE infrastructure.
* Understanding of virtualisation architectures and some experience supporting.
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