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