Description
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Location: South West
Duration: 6-12 Months [initially]
EXCLUSIVE OPPORTUNITY: Sopra Steria is currently recruiting for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join an established team, tasked with deploying, monitoring and maintaining the Hardware, Storage & Backup infrastructure, Virtual Hypervisor and Network components across all Desktop Services within the scope of the Sopra Steria Desktop Service contract; resolving incidents and implementing changes as directed by the Technical Engineering Team leads or project managers as applicable.
On client's instructions, due to the urgency, nature and length of the assignment, the successful candidate must have a current security clearance to a high level.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Configuration, management, monitoring and maintenance of SAN switched fabric Infrastructure
- Configuration, management, monitoring and maintenance of Direct Attached Storage (DAS) components and SAN/Network attached Storage Arrays
- Configuration, management, monitoring and maintenance of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure platforms
- Configuration, management, monitoring and maintenance of Blade Systems enclosures and blade server hardware
- Configuration, management, monitoring and maintenance of rack optimized server hardware
- Configuration and management of the networking infrastructure in those areas where no Client based network services exist
- Update Bios, Firmware & Software in accordance with the recognised patching policy
- To liaise with 3rd Party suppliers and engage where applicable for services relating to Storage, Backup or capacity (rack capacity, electrical safety etc.)
- Present and maintain the storage in physical and virtual environments
- Build and configure Virtual environments as directed
ESSENTIAL SKILLS
- Vocational/Diploma/Associate Degree (technical field) or relevant demonstrable experience with an Infrastructure support engineering role
- Experience of Hyper Converged platform design and build and fault management.
- Knowledge of SAN switch, configuration using the GUI and command line interface
- Understand how to deploy, manage, monitor and maintain SAN switches.
- Experience of Managing, monitoring and maintaining SAN or Network attached Storage Arrays
- Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of current Citrix technologies including but not limited to XenApp, XenDesktop, Netscaler and Virtualisation to a high standard.
- Demonstrates understanding of storage configuration and RAID standard
- Knowledge of Blade Systems enclosures and blade server hardware
- Knowledge of rack-optimized server hardware
- Creation of backup jobs, managing backup schedules and backup infrastructure,
- Hand-on experience of VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V virtualisation
- Understanding of TCP networking technologies
- Experience of rack installation; including network and fibre channel cabling
DESIRABLE
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
- Have experience in the design of new Enterprise Citrix based solutions
- An understanding of naming services (DNS) and Domain Host configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- Knowledge of Networking technologies and protocols (Cisco) including but not limited to: VLANs, and subnetting/IP address management, NIC teaming, network link aggregation (LACP/Etherchannel) and network switch port configuration
On client's instructions, due to the urgency, nature and length of the assignment, the successful candidate must have current security clearance to a high level.
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The post holder will work through Sopra Steria Recruitment for Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital transformation, providing one of the most comprehensive portfolios of end-to-end service offerings on the market: consulting, systems integration, software development, infrastructure management and business process services.
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