Description
Mission Critical System Engineer/Contract/VMWare/Network/Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Description:
Our client is a young, innovative and fast-growing company, active in the international payment industry. Client has rapidly become one of the industry's leading International Payments Solutions Providers, focusing largely on Credit Card transactions.
Its Head Office is situated near The Canals in the heart of Amsterdam. Satellite offices are found in Madrid, New York, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Client services are rendered around the world, on an continuous 24/7 basis; making high-availability a key focus for the ICT department. Client daily processes hundreds of thousands online transactions, adding the performance challenge to the high-availability requirement. Services are hosted in different physical locations forming a private Cloud.
The role:
As Senior System Admin in the ICT team, you will:
- Maintain the systems in their optimal state (as well as propose and implement possible solutions to reduce maintenance time to a minimum),
- Proactively work on increasing stability,
- Be responsible for maintaining and developing your technical skills
- Take ownership of assigned projects to:
- Extend/upgrade the existing systems,
- Analyze the requirements,
- Design and present a solution,
- Deploy and maintain solutions once approved
Technologies:
Clients platform is based (amongst others) upon the following technologies:
- vSphere 4 cluster
- Fiber based SAN
- Storage Arrays
- Microsoft Windows Servers
- Microsoft Exchange 2007 Servers
- Windows 2008 hyper-V platform - Cluster
- Office Communications 2007 UM IP telephony platform
We require:
- At least 5 years work experience in a similar position
- A Masters Degree or equivalent
- Experience in maintaining high availability online (transaction processing) platforms
- Thorough Network, Firewall and Security knowledge (Cisco networking, BGP, DNS, VPN and all common Internet protocols)
- Thorough knowledge of Microsoft technologies
- Thorough knowledge of VMWare vSphere (DRS/HA)
- Thorough knowledge of Storage technologies
- Thorough knowledge of FC based SAN
- Good command of written and oral English
We highly prefer:
- Good command of written and oral Dutch
- Microsoft Exchange
- Microsoft ISA server Qualys Guard
- In possession of a valid driver's license
- Experience with PCI-DSS compliance (or any other compliance) is preferred
- Knowledge of Oracle DB
- Knowledge of Tripwire (or similar solution)
Rate:
- 6 month contract
- €80 - €100 per hour
Mission Critical System Engineer/Contract/VMWare/Network/Amsterdam, The Netherlands