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Storage Specialist

Job Title: Storage Specialist
Contract Type: Contract
Location: London
Industry:
Salary: Negotiable
REF: SQ 070623_1686155917
Contact Name: Sarah Quinn
Contact Email: sarah.quinn@projectpeople.com
Job Published: 11 months ago

Job Description

Storage Specialist

6 months

Remote

Ideally SC Cleared

Your Role

We are looking for recruits to join our 2nd Line Storage support team. As part of a small team within a larger Operations organization, your role will be to deliver support services and change to storage platforms that are critical to our Customer.

Key responsibilities include -

  • Resolution of incidents and problems.
  • Running daily/weekly maintenance routines
  • Delivering SAN storage infrastructure change.
  • Identifying and delivering service improvements.
  • Develop the capability and skills of peers and junior engineers.

You will be empowered to identity better ways of doing things and share your ideas. You can expect to attain skills in new technologies to ensure continued growth of technical capability, with opportunities to work with all our operational teams (inc. Backup, Windows, Solaris/Linux and AIX teams) to enhance that learning.

Your experience

  • 1-2 years' experience of supporting (1st - 2nd Line) SAN storage.
  • Basic knowledge of SAN storage technologies.
  • Experience of working in teams effectively.
  • Proactive approach to personal workload management.
  • Competence in problem investigation, analysis and resolution
  • General awareness of how incident and change is managed in an IT environment (desirable).

Your knowledge/skills -

  • Use and support of any storage appliances and SAN fabrics (ideally Dell and HP but not mandatory).
  • Use and support of SAN storage in a VMWare environment.
  • General knowledge of supporting SAN storage with various server operating systems - Windows, Linux (RHEL & SLES), AIX and Solaris.


Non-technical skills and experience -

  • Remote employment from 1 July 2023 to 10/12/23 (initial engagement period)
  • You must be SC cleared
  • You need to be willing to work OOH and at weekends on a regular basis
  • You need to have good customer communication skills
  • You need to be willing to work to project committed timescales
  • You need to be a team player. Patience and a sense of humour will be beneficial!

Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.