SC Cleared Senior Technical Specialist; Netapp​/Backup

Daily rate: £600 outside IR35 + travel expenses

Duration: 12 months with possible extension

Location: 3days/w onsite in Stevenage (ideally), otherwise Newport or Portsmouth.

* Must be SC cleared*

Methods is looking for a Senior Technical Specialist deep understanding of Net App, responsible for executing and technically validating all Compute, Virtualisation, Storage and Backup activities.

Key skills needed:

• Net App.
• storage replication.
• Veeam for backup.
• Understanding of key tasks to commission and decommission Net App systems.

Some of the activities include:

Deliver and manage Net App SAN and Filers. Some are being replaced and some need upgrade to pass to managed service

Assess and remediate storage & backup obsolescence

Execute and coordinate Ransomware Wave 1 & Wave 2 technical activities

Manage and fulfil infrastructure requests (IPs, DNS, Firewall, VLANs, installations)

Supervise and coordinate vendors and Build Factory technical inputs

Contribute to and produce BRDs and technical documentation

Highly experienced hands on infrastructure engineer with deep technical expertise across secure, air gapped and defence environments.

His core strengths:

Storage:
Net App

Backup:
Veeam, Net Backup

Operating Systems: RHEL, Rocky, CentOS, Windows Server

Automation:
Ansible, Power Shell

Security environments: SC/air gapped/defence contexts