
Server & Storage Engineer (SC Cleared)
- Warrington, Cheshire
- £65.00-68.00 per hour
- Interim
- Full-time
Please note that due to the nature of the role active SC clearance is required.
The role holder will possess expertise in hybrid environments (on-prem, Azure, SaaS).
The role holder will lead the design, implementation and maintenance of resilient server & storage infrastructure that ensures optimal reliability, scalability, and performance.
Expertise in virtualisation, storage, backups & VDI is essential.Work Pattern : Hybrid (approx. 1 day per week, office / data centre based)
Location : Warrington
Working pattern: (5 days per week, Mon to Fri, 9am - 5pm)
Duration: 60 days with potential extensions
Rate: £65-£68 per hour Inside IR35Responsibilities and previous experience:
- Design, implement, and manage resilient infrastructure solutions that ensure optimal reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Installing and configuring server hardware and software, ensuring systems are optimized for performance and security.
- Performing regular updates, patches and backups
- Maintaining records of server configurations, procedures, and changes for reference and compliance.
- Collaborate with other IT teams to support applications and ensure seamless integration.
- Train and mentor other team members, to ensure cross-training / skilling Requirements & Skills
- Excellent knowledge of SAN solutions primarily NetApp build / configure & maintain
- Excellent knowledge of hosting platforms Dell PowerEdge Server & Cisco USC
- Excellent knowledge in the management and maintenance of VMWare based virtualised estates Clusters / HA / Replication / Distributed Switches / vCenter upgrades & host patching
- Experience in Veeam and other Backup technologies
- Experience in migrations for data & infrastructure.
- Good understanding of automation and scripting; comfortable creating PowerShell script for infrastructure automation and efficiencies.
- Skilled in using monitoring & alerting tools and configure dashboards, e.g. SolarWinds
- Good understanding of networking concepts (e.g. TCP/IP, DNS, VLANs, iSCSI).
- Good understanding of Activity Directory and GPOs Experience:
- 5+ years of experience working within a large enterprise estate (5,000+ users)
- Proven track record managing enterprise-grade infrastructure in a production environment