Description
Backup & Storage Infrastructure Engineer - Banking
This is a great opportunity with a prestigious global financial services institution help build the Backup infrastructure enhancement (which needs the knowledge of enterprise storage technology). This is to ensure that the system environment remains stable.
The role will involve:
Technical ownership and support of the organisation's storage and backup infrastructure including follow-me-print solutions
Undertake visits to Datacentre locations to support underlying technologies.
Provide out-of-hours on call support, as part of a rota, for troubleshooting and resolving critical issues.
Proactively monitor and enhance the storage and backup environments by ensuring alerts generated by the system are managed and progressed.
Working with the organisation's architecture team to recommend and scope tactical and strategic enhancements to the organisation's EMEA IT Backup & Storage environment, engaging 3rd party suppliers where appropriate.
Managing the environment's hardware and software life cycles, ensuring that the organisation's systems do not become affected by end-of-life or end-of-support milestones.
To be considered for the role you'll require the following:
A strong banking/financial services engineering background
Excellent storage knowledge, fundamental understanding of block and file storage protocols
Demonstratable exposure to current enterprise datacentre technologies and practices
Good networking knowledge, fundamental understanding of TCP/IP, DNS
Good knowledge of distributed, highly virtualised environments running business critical applications globally
Excellent Storage, Backup, and datacentre technologies skills (Storage - SAN, NAS and associated protocols, Enterprise Backup products etc)
Experience with follow me print solutions including implementation, management, and administration
Hands on experience in datacentre environments including working with support partners to resolve issues.
Strong practical experience of managing the implementation and administration of enterprise storage technologies such as NetApp (Clustered Data ONTAP), Dell Data Domain (PowerProtect), Dell ECS and Unity arrays.
Experienced with backup technology solutions in highly virtualised environments including NetBackup and Veeam.
Experienced with enterprise server/storage hardware.
Working knowledge of follow me print solutions eg, Canon UniFLOW and or Kofax Equitrac
Good knowledge of networking in relation to storage and backup technologies and a willingness to engage networking teams to resolve complex issues.
Knowledge of Scripting/automation technologies such as Powershell or similar API's.
Good understanding of Windows Client Server operating systems and associated infrastructures
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