Senior Enterprise Infrastructure Engineer

Job Title: Senior Enterprise Infrastructure Engineer
Campus: Any
Salary: Grade 8 (£46,974 - £56,054)
Reference Number: 026663

- ABOUT US -

We are a university with a national and international reputation for excellence, innovation and regional engagement, making a major contribution to the economic, social and cultural development of Northern Ireland.

Our core business activities are teaching and learning, widening access to education, research and innovation and technology and knowledge transfer.

- THE ROLE -

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a multi-campus University, working across multi-disciplinary teams within both our Infrastructure and Security portfolios. You will have the opportunity to contribute to and lead on technology solution design and implementation, complex problem resolution and ongoing service enhancement in relation to the University’s entire Infrastructure technology stack including compute, storage, backup, DR and virtualisation.

These technologies span infrastructure deployments across multiple data centres, local production and DR environments, hyperconverged on-prem and cloud deployments. The role will develop skills in multiple technologies and vendor platforms such as Linux, EMC, Dell and VMware and require specific competencies in areas of Linux system administration, compute platform configuration and virtualisation.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

- Engaging with key stakeholders in relation to the deployment and implementation of compute and virtualised architectures based on the VMWare technology stack.
- Linux system administration and platform support including automation, platform provisioning and platform hardening.
- Lead from the front on troubleshooting Infrastructure based issues, having the ability to analyse the issue at hand, communicate effectively and resolve via stakeholder engagement.
- Support and enhance currently deployed leading edge Infrastructure configurations and lead with the technical design and implementation of new technologies.

- ABOUT YOU -

- Essential hands-on experience supporting and administering Linux variant platforms.
- Deep understanding of approaches relevant to the secure, resilient and redundant deployment of infrastructure architectures.
- Expertise supporting virtual environments hosted in VMware.
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP networking and LAN technologies, including IP address configuration and troubleshooting.
- Knowledge and experience of enterprise scale storage architectures and/or Backup and DR configurations will also be considered.
- Proven personal management including the ability to work unsupervised and efficiently organise workloads.
- Strong interpersonal skills, customer centric attitude, ability to deal with diversity and the ability to articulate technical issues to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Closing Date: 8th April 23:30

So, if you’d like to join us as a Senior Enterprise Infrastructure Engineer, please apply via the button shown.

The University is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants from all sections of the community, particularly from those with disabilities. Appointment will be made on merit.