Senior IT System Engineer (Backup and Archiving)
Location
Europe | United Kingdom
Job description
Senior IT System Engineer (Backup and Archiving) – Banking – Krakow
Rate: €500 – €800 per day
Duration: 1 year freelance contract
Hybrid: 1 day per week in the Krakow Office
Please note that this role is based in Krakow, Poland
The Virtual Infrastructure Services team is committed to bring the best computing experience to our internal clients (platforms, office and business applications) via innovative virtualized services through its Converged and Hyper-Converged infrastructures.
We are looking for an enthusiastic new member for our “Virtualisation Infrastructure Services” team that wants to share his/her passion for IT technology and automation with the team.
Role
This position is centred on the management, support and evolution of the Cohesity Backup and Dell ECS Archive Solutions and Hypervisor technology (VMware) in a 24/7 production environment.
One of the goals of the role will also be to design and build automation solutions for the virtual infrastructure services offered by the team in order to reduce manual efforts and increase team efficiency.
Your responsibilities:
- Support the team to deliver a consistent technology strategy and life-cycle management plan for our infrastructures, in particular the Cohesity, Dell EMC networker, DataDomain & Dell EMC S3 infrastructure;
- Develop solutions based on analysis of business and technical requirements;
- Develop architecture and design of projects.
- Develop effective relationships relationship with other key IT experts;
- Work in coordination with the Product Owner, Solution Architects and with other teams/tribes.
Your profile:
Technical skills
Proven experience in the IT world (Storage, Distributed, Converged, Hyper-Converged and Virtualized infrastructures);
- Expert knowledge of backup platforms, with at least 2y experience with Cohesity in larger IT Environments
- Expert in Object Based Storage (Dell ECS)
- Expert in Backup platforms (Cohesity, Networker/DataDomain)
- Development skills and experience, more specifically in Ansible Tower environments
- Knowledge on Mobius is an asset
- Programming languages: Python, PowerShell
Languages: Fluent English is mandatory
Complimentary Experience & Competences:
- Expert in VMWare and Nutanix
- Understanding of the clients production processes and Distributed technical environment is an advantage
- Understanding of Network technical environments (Cisco ACI) is an asset
Soft skills
- Ability to articulate a mid/long term vision for his technology domain evolution in relationship with the clients Business Strategy;
- Experience in developing relationships with external technology vendors or services providers;
- Drive and energy, entrepreneurial attitude, hands-on mentality;
- Have negotiating skills;
- Examine matters from a distance and putting them in a broader context and time perspective (vision)
- Obtain approval from others by use of good arguments, appropriate influencing methods and personal authority (persuasion)
- Proficient oral and written communications skills in English, sharing strategy and vision with both peers and management
- Inspire and engage others as part of larger team;
- Open to work in a fast moving technical and human environment;
- Open to change and evolution;
- Be able to work with strict deadlines and handle complex situations;
- Act with consideration of the dynamics in the organisation (organisational sensitivity);
- Eager to learn.
Please note this role could include occasional weekend work and Watch Duty on-call support outside business hours assigned on a rotational basis.
Please do send across the most up to date CV to [email protected]
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Salary
€500 - €800 per day
