Data Centre Engineer (Data Centre, Engineer, Storage, SAN, Cloud, Linux, RedHat, Oracle Linux, Blade Servers, VMware, Clusters, 3Par, EMC, NetApp) Permanent Remote

Charles Simon Associates are currently looking for a Data Centre Engineer on a permanent basis for our client, a global business leader in their sector and a household name. The data centre team are at the centre of everything this business does, the technologies and opportunities are endless for the right candidate.

Location: Home Based

Salary: Up to £75,000 per annum Plus On call (1 in 5)

Skills/Requirements For The Data Centre Engineer

• Extensive Data Centre experience previously
• Ability to lead IT projects and engage stakeholders
• Extensive Hypervisor experience, ideally within VMware or Oracle Linux VM
• Strong SAN Storage experience including Fibre Channel Switches, SAN Zoning and IP Based Storage
• Linux experience, within RedHat and/or Oracle Linux
• VMware Clustering
• Working within ITIL processes for Change and Problem Management
• Ideally SAN products such as Dell EMC, 3Par, NetApp or Nimble would be advantageous
• Any previous experience of working within a private cloud environment would be highly desirable
  
  

Start date is ASAP for the Data Centre Engineer

The Data Centre Engineer Will Be Responsible For

• Supporting the Storage & Data Centre infrastructure as directed by management
• Assisting with the design of Data Centres ensuring no single points of failure to enable High Availability and comprehensive DR provision for all critical systems.
• Ensuring maximum availability of Data Centre and Cloud systems and minimum disruption due to change - planned or otherwise.
• Installing, configuring and managing Linux servers and software as required, using automation where possible.
• Configuring and managing Data Protection platforms including Commvault, Dell EMC Networker and Zerto.
• Work closely with DBA, Network, Application, Systems and Service Desk teams on projects, migrations, upgrades, refreshes, architecture and other activities.
• Carry out regular Disaster Recovery (DR) testing on key systems
• Ensuring systems maintenance, support, installations, upgrades, performance monitoring, capacity planning, compute and storage management is carried out with minimum disruption
• Maintaining documentation and diagrams to describe all systems, networks and communications.
• Participate in an out-of-hours on-call rota as required.
• Maintain knowledge of trends, developments, and best practices in Data Centre, SAN Storage, Cloud, Linux compute and related technology.
  
  

Please send an up-to-date copy of your CV to be considered for the Data Centre Engineer

Data Centre Engineer (Data Centre, Engineer, Storage, SAN, Cloud, Linux, RedHat, Oracle Linux, Blade Servers, VMware, Clusters, 3Par, EMC, NetApp) Permanent Remote