Storage Engineer
Posted Today by DGH Recruitment
£86 Per hour
Inside
Hybrid
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary: A Storage Engineer is needed for a 6-month contract at a global law firm in Birmingham, focusing on providing expert support for storage infrastructure and mentoring junior team members. The role involves managing server, storage, and virtualization platforms, as well as executing automation scripts. Candidates should be prepared to work across multiple time zones and support out-of-hours changes as necessary.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide SME-level support across storage infrastructure, mentoring junior team members in storage technologies
- Manage and maintain server, storage, and virtualisation platforms within a data centre environment
- Perform storage presentations, host migrations, device expansions, and VM-related engineering tasks
- Reverse engineer environments from virtual machines, filter VMs, and manage legacy storage transitions
- Work across technologies including Dell PowerMax, Dell EMC Isilon, Cisco MDS Fabric, VMware, and legacy HyperFlex nodes
- Develop and execute scripts using PowerCLI and PowerShell to support automation and system management
- Operate across multiple time zones, managing concurrent tasks and priorities effectively
- Support out-of-hours change windows (evenings/weekends) as required
Key Skills:
- Strong expertise in enterprise storage platforms (Dell PowerMax, Dell EMC Isilon)
- Solid experience with server infrastructure and virtualisation technologies, particularly VMware
- Proficiency in scripting (PowerShell, PowerCLI) for automation and administration
- Experience with Cisco MDS Fabric switches and broader data centre networking concepts
- Familiarity with SQL Server and ITSM tools such as ServiceNow
- Proven ability to work in complex, multi-region environments with overlapping time zones
- Experience mentoring or supporting junior engineers within infrastructure teams
- Comfortable working occasional out-of-hours change windows without on-call requirements
Salary (Rate): £650.00 daily
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Storage Engineer - 6 Month Contract - Birmingham (Hybrid) - £650pd (Inside IR35) A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an Storage Engineer to join our Birmingham based global law firm on a initial 6 month contract basis.
- Provide SME-level support across storage infrastructure, mentoring junior team members in storage technologies
- Manage and maintain server, storage, and virtualisation platforms within a data centre environment
- Perform storage presentations, host migrations, device expansions, and VM-related engineering tasks
- Reverse engineer environments from virtual machines, filter VMs, and manage legacy storage transitions
- Work across technologies including Dell PowerMax, Dell EMC Isilon, Cisco MDS Fabric, VMware, and legacy HyperFlex nodes
- Develop and execute scripts using PowerCLI and PowerShell to support automation and system management
- Operate across multiple time zones, managing concurrent tasks and priorities effectively
- Support out-of-hours change windows (evenings/weekends) as required
Key Experience
- Strong expertise in enterprise storage platforms (Dell PowerMax, Dell EMC Isilon)
- Solid experience with server infrastructure and virtualisation technologies, particularly VMware
- Proficiency in scripting (PowerShell, PowerCLI) for automation and administration
- Experience with Cisco MDS Fabric switches and broader data centre networking concepts
- Familiarity with SQL Server and ITSM tools such as ServiceNow
- Proven ability to work in complex, multi-region environments with overlapping time zones
- Experience mentoring or supporting junior engineers within infrastructure teams
- Comfortable working occasional out-of-hours change windows without on-call requirements
Storage Engineer - 6 Month Contract - Birmingham (Hybrid) - £650pd (Inside IR35)