Data Centre Engineer - (Data Centre, Engineer, Storage, SAN, Cloud, Linux, RedHat, Oracle Linux, Blade Servers, VMware, Clusters, 3Par, EMC, NetApp) - Permanent - Remote

Charles Simon Associates are currently looking for a Data Centre Engineer on a permanent basis for our client, a global business leader in their sector and a household name. The data centre team are at the centre of everything this business does, the technologies and opportunities are endless for the right candidate.

Location: Home Based

Salary: Up to £75,000 per annum Plus On call (1 in 5)

Skills/Requirements for the Data Centre Engineer:

* Extensive Data Centre experience previously

* Ability to lead IT projects and engage stakeholders

* Extensive Hypervisor experience, ideally within VMware or Oracle Linux VM

* Strong SAN Storage experience including Fibre Channel Switches, SAN Zoning and IP Based Storage

* Linux experience, within RedHat and/or Oracle Linux

* VMware Clustering

* Working within ITIL processes for Change and Problem Management

* Ideally SAN products such as Dell EMC, 3Par, NetApp or Nimble would be advantageous

* Any previous experience of working within a private cloud environment would be highly desirable

Start date is ASAP for the Data Centre Engineer

The Data Centre Engineer will be responsible for:

* Supporting the Storage & Data Centre infrastructure as directed by management

* Assisting with the design of Data Centres ensuring no single points of failure to enable High Availability and comprehensive DR provision for all critical systems.

* Ensuring maximum availability of Data Centre and Cloud systems and minimum disruption due to change - planned or otherwise.

* Installing, configuring and managing Linux servers and software as required, using automation where possible.

* Configuring and managing Data Protection platforms including Commvault, Dell EMC Networker and Zerto.

* Work closely with DBA, Network, Application, Systems and Service Desk teams on projects, migrations, upgrades, refreshes, architecture and other activities.

* Carry out regular Disaster Recovery (DR) testing on key systems

* Ensuring systems maintenance, support, installations, upgrades, performance monitoring, capacity planning, compute and storage management is carried out with minimum disruption

* Maintaining documentation and diagrams to describe all systems, networks and communications.

* Participate in an out-of-hours on-call rota as required.

* Maintain knowledge of trends, developments, and best practices in Data Centre, SAN Storage, Cloud, Linux compute and related technology.

Please send an up-to-date copy of your CV to be considered for the Data Centre Engineer

Data Centre Engineer - (Data Centre, Engineer, Storage, SAN, Cloud, Linux, RedHat, Oracle Linux, Blade Servers, VMware, Clusters, 3Par, EMC, NetApp) - Permanent - Remote