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Data Centre Engineer

Charles Simon Associates Ltd
Posted a day ago, valid for a month
Location

Manchester, Greater Manchester M17 1DJ, England

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Charles Simon Associates is seeking a Data Centre Engineer for a permanent remote position with a global business leader, offering a salary of up to £75,000 per annum plus on-call responsibilities.
  • The ideal candidate should have extensive Data Centre experience and at least 5 years in a related role, with a strong background in Hypervisors, particularly VMware or Oracle Linux VM.
  • Key skills include strong SAN Storage experience, particularly with Fibre Channel Switches and IP Based Storage, as well as Linux experience with RedHat and/or Oracle Linux.
  • Responsibilities include supporting the Storage & Data Centre infrastructure, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for critical systems, and collaborating with various IT teams on projects and upgrades.
  • Candidates should be familiar with ITIL processes and have experience with Data Protection platforms, with knowledge of trends and best practices in Data Centre and Cloud technologies being highly desirable.

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

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.

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