Storage Engineer

Storage Engineer

Location: Sheffield (Hybrid - 2 days on site)

Length: 9 months

Pay: up to £445/d (inside IR35)

Would you like to join a global leader in consulting, technology services and digital transformation?

Our client is at the forefront of innovation to address the entire breadth of opportunities in the evolving world of cloud, digital and platforms.

• Build of enterprise class storage products, development code, DevOps Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery pipelines to the design
• Build of automation in support of re-certification, upgrade, Evergreen and production support functions, build automation interfaces between systems and confirm APIs integrate
• Configure, Administer, maintain, and supports storage arrays for customers; involves hands-on management of Object storage devices.
• Documentation of engineering standards, best practices, relevant for production build and support teams to allow for rapid adoption
• Testing, certification and validation of storage products and services, ensure smooth handover of engineered storage products to the production build, deployment, and support teams, with supporting documentation to ensure smooth, efficient global adoption.
• Analyses storage system behaviour and baselines, resolve complex IO problems, recommends storage system layouts according to data usage and criticality.
• Management of all aspects of risks and financial controls to ensure products are engineered within agreed timescales, on quality and on budget
• Documentation of engineering standards, best practices, relevant for production build and support teams to allow for rapid adoption
• Implementation and administration of DELL EMC ECS or similar Object storages.
• Hands-on experience on Storage Monitoring Accountabilities, Alerts & Notification
• Hands-on experience on CLI of Storages.
• Strong Knowledge of Storage reporting, Performance analysis factors of Storage Arrays
• Resolving complicated Hardware cases and Liaising with Hardware Vendor/support & escalate severity issues
• Follow ITIL practices
• Should be a good team player
• Capable of handling escalation independently
• Identify potential solution(s) to issue and determine any risk.
• Automation & scripting skill using PowerShell, Bash/Batch, Perl, REST API's & Ansible etc.
• Provide mentorship and leadership to emerging talent within the infrastructure technology (in the form of cross training, workshops, and knowledge sharing).
• Manage, communicate, and deliver all steady state difficulties to business.