Storage Infrastructure Engineer (IBM Flash, Spectrum Scale, Linux)
Posted Today by Deloitte
Negotiable
Inside
Undetermined
England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Storage Infrastructure Engineer role focuses on managing and troubleshooting IBM Flash Systems and Spectrum Scale within a production environment. The position requires a proactive approach to improving team processes and delivering high-quality technical support. The engineer will work independently and collaboratively within an established team, ensuring efficient resolution of service incidents. The contract is initially for three months with a potential for extension and is classified as inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- 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.
Key Skills:
- Demonstrable level of knowledge in their chosen technical discipline.
- Essential experience of working in a complex, pressurised production environment.
- 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.
- 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.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Contract Role: Storage Infrastructure Engineer (IBM Flash, Spectrum Scale, Linux)
Contract Location: West Midlands, East Midlands, Sheffield, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Bath, Bristol, Somerset
Contract Duration: 3 months initially (potential for extension)
Contract Start Date: Immediate
Contract Classification: Inside IR35
We are looking for a Storage-focused Infrastructure Engineer with experience across IBM Flash Systems and Spectrum Scale. The Infrastructure Analyst – Storage will join an already established Platform team, providing a level of technical knowledge to undertake the troubleshooting and resolution to production incidents or problems independently escalating to Senior Engineers if required.
Key Responsibilities:
- 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
Required Skills and Experience:
- 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.
- Essential skills
- 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
Desirable skills
- 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