Infrastructure Storage Analyst - Spectrum Scale

Job Title: Infrastructure Storage Analyst - Spectrum Scale

Location: 1 day per month at Manchester office / can happen that the bank may ask candidate to visit Coventry's office at Birmingham in future for only 1 day per month

Salary/Rate: £316 per day inside IR35

Start Date: May

Job Type: Initial 6 month contract

We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Infrastructure Storage Analyst with Spectrum Scale experience to join their banking client.

• Provide technical knowledge to troubleshoot and resolve production incidents, escalating to Senior Engineers when required.
• Complete tasks to agreed quality levels within stated timescales with minimal supervision.
• Look for improvement opportunities within the team and its processes/procedures.
• Support and guide peers, contributing to team efficiency and accurate technical documentation.
• Independently troubleshoot and resolve production service incidents.
• Undertake technical tasks such as patching, allocating storage, maintaining scripts, and configuring backups.
• Effectively prioritize tasks to ensure high priority activities are completed first.

• VMware enterprise skills such as vRealize, SRM, and Operations Manager.
• CISCO UCS infrastructure (compute, networking, and storage in a single unit).
• Knowledge of storage technologies vSAN and VxRail.
• Experience with Linux command line technologies (Unix interface).
• Exposure to and application of cluster management within Spectrum Scale.
• Familiarity with Spectrum Scale protocols, including GPFS, NFS, and SMB in an active active topology.
• Demonstrable knowledge in chosen technical discipline, essential experience working in complex, pressurised production environments (financial services experience desirable but not essential).
• Knowledge and experience with IBM Flash Systems, including replication using global mirror, metro mirror, and change volumes.
• Proficiency in provisioning and redacting storage across the IBM storage estate - all technologies.
• Experience with ticket management using ServiceNow.
• Awareness of AWS cloud technologies and associated features.
• Knowledge of AWS server administration and features.
• Experience working within an Agile delivery environment.
• Understanding of VMware products including vSphere, vRealize & related technologies.
• Understanding of Cisco UCS & HPE infrastructure.
• Understanding of virtualisation architectures and supporting experience.
• Awareness of how actions can affect availability.
• Awareness of GKLM (SKLM).

Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

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