6 months initially - Cardiff - £22p/h
12 hour shift patterns (various shift patterns available to suit)
We are looking for someone who can help with batch processing and job scheduling for a Datacentre in Cardiff. If you have experience of a job scheduling tool, particularly Control M, we would love to hear from you.
We are also looking for a candidate capable of systems monitoring and management, observing monitoring consoles and event driven alerts.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinating with vendors when support calls are raised for assistance (e.g. BT)
- Calling on on call expert staff to respond to out of hours incidents (e.g. DBA team, Network team)
- Taking first line corrective action for agreed and documented administrative systems (e.g. re sending faxes which have failed delivery)
- Running & monitoring traditional batch schedules, including using automated tools such as Control M, Visualcron, etc.
- Managing jobs/scripts to release development changes into production
Other Physical Duties
- Daily removal of tapes and boxing up for off siting
- Activities in the datacentre on power down weekends in support of engineers
- Test access to systems to prove availability (e.g. logon to an application)
- Conduct physical patrols to ensure datacentre temperature etc. (in addition to watching automatic building management alert systems)
- All other ad hoc activities reasonably required or expected to ensure smooth operation of the batch processing and datacenter operations as requested under the supervision of an Operations Coordinator
- Ensure security and access procedures are followed, this includes maintenance of related logs and records
If this sounds like you, please apply now for more details!