Infrastructure Storage Analyst
Posted 4 days ago by Undisclosed
£326 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Manchester Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Infrastructure Storage Analyst will be part of an established Platform team within CBS, focusing on troubleshooting and resolving production incidents with minimal supervision. The role requires technical expertise in various storage technologies and the ability to improve team processes. The analyst will also contribute to team efficiency through documentation and support for peers. Occasional onsite presence in Coventry/Birmingham may be required.
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, and CISCO UCS infrastructure.
- Knowledge of storage technologies such as 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 technologies.
- Knowledge of AWS server administration and features.
- Experience with ticket management using ServiceNow.
- Understanding of virtualization architectures.
Salary (Rate): £325.68 daily
City: Manchester
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
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!