Infrastructure Storage Analyst CGEMJP00331577
Posted Today by Experis UK
£326 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Coventry, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Infrastructure Storage Analyst will be part of the Platform team within CBS, focusing on troubleshooting and resolving production incidents with minimal supervision. The role requires technical expertise in storage technologies and the ability to improve team processes. The analyst will also contribute to documentation and support peers while managing tasks effectively. This position is hybrid, requiring occasional on-site presence in Manchester and potentially Coventry/Birmingham.
Key Responsibilities:
- Independently troubleshoot and resolve production service incidents.
- Perform technical tasks such as patching, allocating storage, maintaining scripts, and configuring backups.
- Prioritize tasks to ensure high-priority activities are completed first.
- Provide support and guidance to peers and team members.
- Create accurate technical documentation as required.
- Identify improvement opportunities within team processes and procedures.
Key Skills:
- Demonstrable knowledge in technical discipline.
- Experience in a complex, pressurized production environment.
- Familiarity with VMware, vRealize, SRM, and operations manager.
- Knowledge of CISCO UCS infrastructure.
- Good understanding of storage technologies like vSAN and VxRail.
- Experience with Linux command line technologies.
- Exposure to cluster management within Spectrum Scale.
- Familiarity with Spectrum Scale protocols (GPFS, NFS, SMB).
- Experience with IBM Flash Systems and replication techniques.
- Knowledge of AWS server administration and features.
- Experience in an Agile delivery environment.
- Understanding of virtualisation architectures.
Salary (Rate): £325.68 daily
City: Manchester
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Role Title: Infrastructure Storage Analyst
Duration: 6 month contract
Location: Manchester, hybrid 1 day per month onsite. May be a potential need to occasionally come into the Coventry/Birmingham office once per month as well
Rate: up to £325.68 p/d Umbrella inside IR35
Role Purpose / Summary
The Infrastructure Storage Analyst will join an already established Platform team within CBS, providing a level of technical knowledge to undertake the troubleshooting and resolution to production incidents or problems independently escalating to Senior Engineers if required. Completes tasks to agreed levels of quality, within stated timescales with minimal supervision. Looks for improvement opportunities within the team and its processes/procedures. An effective team member who provides support and guidance to peers and other team members. Contributes to team efficiency through the creation of accurate technical documentation where required
Responsible for independently troubleshooting and resolving production service incidents
Undertake technical tasks such as patching, allocating storage, maintaining scripts and configuring backups
Effectively prioritise tasks to ensure high priority activities are completed first
Specific Skills:
- Demonstrable level of knowledge in their chosen technical discipline.
- Essential experience of working in a complex, pressurised production environment.
- Financial services experience would be desirable but not essential.
- VMware + enterprise skills like vRealize, SRM, operations manager
- CISCO UCS infrastructure (compute, networking and storage combined into a single unit)
- Good knowledge of storage technologies vSAN and VxRail
- Experience with Linux command line technologies, as IBM Storage operates on a Unix interface.
- Exposure to and application of cluster management within Spectrum Scale.
- Familiarity with Spectrum Scale protocols, including GPFS, NFS, and SMB in an active-active topology.
- Essential Skills
- Exposure to and application of cluster management within Spectrum Scale
- Familiarity with Spectrum Scale protocols, including GPFS, NFS, and SMB in an active-active topology.
- Exposure to and application of IBM Flash Systems - knowledge and experience of replication using global mirror, metro mirror and change volumes
- Exposure to and application of cluster management within Spectrum Scale, Oracle and ESXi environments
- Exposure to and application Spectrum Scale - protocols to include GPFS, NFS, and SMB in active-active topology
- Explore to or awareness of GKLM (SKLM)
- Awareness of how actions can affect availability
- Provision and redaction of storage across the IBM storage estate - all technologies
- Experience of working with Linux command line technologies
- Experience of ticket management using ServiceNow
- An appreciation of Cloud technologies (AWS) and associated features
- Knowledge of AWS server administration and features
- Some experience of working within an Agile delivery environment
- An understanding of VMware products including vSphere, vRealize & related technologies
- An understanding of Cisco UCS & HPE infrastructure
- An understanding of virtualisation architectures and some experience supporting
All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!