Server & Storage Engineer

About the opportunity:

We are seeking a highly skilled and versatile server & storage engineer to join our Amentum International team. -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.

Reporting to the Tech Services Manager, you will be working as a part of a small but highly proactive and passionate team providing remote and on-site server & storage infrastructure support and project input for our enterprise end users (internal users), across the UK, EMEA, APAC (approx. 7,500 users). -You will also collaborate with colleagues at our USA central (HQ) technology team.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage resilient infrastructure solutions that ensure optimal reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Install and configure server hardware and software, ensuring systems are optimized for performance and security.
• Perform regular updates, patches and backups
• Maintain 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

Qualifications - External

Requirements

• 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-
• Several years of experience working within a large enterprise estate (5,000+ users)
• Proven track record managing enterprise-grade infrastructure in a production environment