Storage Infrastructure Analyst

Role

Title:

Storage Infrastructure Analyst

Duration: contract to run until TBC

Location:

Coventry, Hybrid - 40% Office, 60% Remote

Rate: up to £325.68 p/d Umbrella inside IR35

Role purpose / summary

The Infrastructure Analyst - Storage will join an already established Platform team within CBS, 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

Must Have Skills :

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 Vx Rail  

Specific

Skills:

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 Service Now
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

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply