Storage & Backup Engineer

_**Storage & Backup Engineer (Infrastructure)**:_
£380p/d _inside_ IR35
- 2 days on-site_ in Durrington, 3 days home-working
3 months initially, starting as soon as possible.

The Storage & Backup Engineer is responsible for managing the high availability storage infrastructure and associated operational services in line with the agreed Service Level Targets.
**Scope of role**:

- Responsible for the resolution through 2nd & 3rd line support for all storage and backup related issues.
- Identifies and acts upon opportunities for continuous improvement to reduce operational risks, optimise efficiency and improve standards.
- Working with Strategy and Architecture to ensure that that the infrastructure and associated management tools are both supportable and maintainable.
- To ensure that product road maps and any associated remediation plans are in place to address operational risks.
**Major accountabilities of role**:

- Contributor to SW Transition and Transformation Programmes of work.
- Defining and implementing IT quality assurance practices and procedures.
- Ensuring that the appropriate IT technology standard requirements, methodology and processes are in place.
**Capability**:

- Dell EMC Storage Management (essential)._
- MCSE qualified (preferred).
- Windows 7, 10, Server 2003, 2008R2, 2012, 2016 in an enterprise environment.
- Unix and Linux fundamentals.
- Cloud Platform experience.
- Troubleshooting, Diagnostics & Event Log/Management.
- Dell EMC Storage Management.
- Cisco UCS.
- IBM Cloud Object Storage.
- VMWare including Site Recovery Manager & VRealize and ESXi.
- Hyper-Converged infrastructure, physical and Cloud Platform DataCentre management
**Knowledge & Experience**:

- Experience of working in a Transitional multi supplier environment within a large-scale organisation.
- Experience of contributing to technical solution design and development leveraging existing tool suites and propose best of breed solutions.
- Experience in ensuring that infrastructure conforms to architectural principles (e.g. supportability, future-proofing, consolidation, standards and strategy.
- Demonstrable experience successfully challenging vendors on solution designs resulting in an improved product.
- Stakeholder management with experience of working effectively with all levels throughout the organisation.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, flexible and a proactive team player.
- Technical expertise within a service and technical environment with a demanding, fast-paced environment.