System Administrator - Cloud

Location

Scarborough, North Yorkshire | United Kingdom

Job description

Story Behind the Need:

• The Global Technology and Enterprise Platforms (GTEP) Operations & Engineering team is looking for a backup administrator to operate, troubleshoot, support backup and migration activities in scope of public cloud migration project and GTA data center consolidation program.
• Working with various Global Technology and Enterprise Platforms (GTEP)/ CIO stakeholders, the client internal cloud team, under GTEP-Operations & Engineering, will build hybrid cloud products including detailed design, build, operational transition and product lifecycle management across the enterprise. Cloud products follow infrastructure patterns, frameworks and standards from GTEP-EA Architecture. Enabling enterprise wide adoption of innovative hybrid cloud products (like automated Infra/backup/storage services, software defined Data Center etc.) to improve business application agility and competitiveness in a cost-effective manner.

Candidate Value Proposition:

• The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work within client. We are technology partners who help the business transform how our employees around the world work. You will get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology.

Typical Day in Role:

• Reporting to the Director/Principle Engineer, Cloud Engineering, you will play a critical part in the public cloud migration and data center consolidation project to leverage virtual machine migration solutions to move machines to new client Private Cloud, and manage backup for those virtual machines.
• You will work with technical and business subject matter experts on this large, technically complex, and moderately risky project to ensure the migrated applications are functional well to meet their business goals.
• When required, non-standard office working hours for scheduled implementations or while on rotational on-project support.
• You will manage and maintain the backup and NAS solution (both on-prem and GCP), assist in troubleshooting, and provide guidance.
• You will provide Level 3 support & vendor escalations for transitioned services.
• You will support the development of technical documentation of configuration and operational procedures for service operations teams (build & runbooks) & technical specifications.
• You will contribute to implementation planning.

Candidate Requirements/Must-Have skills:

• 10+ years of overall working experience as a Backup Administrator, technical working experience with backup from the following products: Cohesity and/or Dell EMC Data Domain (backup and replication) and/or NetBackup and/or Veeam, etc.
• 2+ years of hands-on technical working experience with backup solution running in Google Cloud Platform (GCP/GCVE).

Note:

• The hiring manager is looking for a dedicated backup administrator (not just operator/user) with recent experience.

Nice to Have Skills:

• Experience with VMware vRealize suite (including vRealize Automation, vRealize Operation Manager, vRealize Log Insight, etc.) and/or VMware Cloud Foundation.
• Experience with the architectural and/or deployment and/or operational support of VMware vSphere Hypervisor.
• Experience with Scripting (VMware PowerCLI, Backup automation, REST API scripting, PowerShell & Python).
• Experience with storage from the following products: NetApp NAS and/or Dell EMC and/or Hyper Converged Virtual SAN.
• Experience with Microsoft Windows Server 2012/16 administration and/or Red Hat Linux administration 7.x.
• Experience with Networking technologies and operational experience.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills to be able to work well with technical peers and business stakeholders at different levels within the organization.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to be able to collaborate and work closely with external vendors.
• Ability to analyze complex situations and problems and do the necessary research using multiple sources of information to arrive at innovative solutions.
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently or with minimal direction.
• Good time management and organizational skills to effectively manage high scale project.

Best vs. Average Candidate:

• The ideal candidate not only fulfills the technical requirements, but also possess strong soft skills. The hiring manager is looking for a dedicated backup administrator (not just operator/user) with recent experience.
• Previous Banking/FI experience.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required.

Candidate Review & Selection:

• 1st round MS Teams video interview – Technical interview with Principle Engineer and Backup Admin (1 hour)
• 2nd round MS Teams video interview – Director and Principle Engineer (30 minutes)

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