Storage Infrastructure Engineer (IBM Flash, Spectrum Scale, Linux)
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Job Summary
Contract Role: Storage Infrastructure Engineer (IBM Flash Spectrum Scale Linux)
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 if 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.
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 and Experience:
Demonstrable level of knowledge in their chosen technical discipline. Essential experience of working in a complex pressurised 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 Spectrum Scale - protocols to include GPFS NFS and SMB in active-active topology
Explore 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 of working with Linux command line technologies
Experience of ticket management using ServiceNow
Desirable skills
An appreciation of Cloud technologies (AWS) and associated features
Knowledge of AWS server administration and features
Some experience of working within an Agile delivery environment
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
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