Storage Analyst (Infrastructure), Coventry, UK

We are a global recruitment specialist that provides support to the clients across EMEA, APAC, US and Canada.

Role Title: Storage Analyst
Location: Coventry
Duration: 6 months
Work setup: 2 days onsite
Rate: £290/day on umbrella

MUST BE PAYE THROUGH UMBRELLA

Role Description
The Infrastructure Analyst - Storage will join an already established Platform team within client, providing a level of technical knowledge to undertake the troubleshooting and resolution to production incidents or problems independently escalating to Senior Engineers if required. Completes tasks to agreed levels of quality, within stated timescales with minimal supervision. Looks for improvement opportunities within the team and its processes/procedures. An effective team member who provides support and guidance to peers and other team members. Contributes to team efficiency through the creation of accurate technical documentation where required.

Responsible for independently troubleshooting and resolving production service incidents
Undertake technical tasks such as patching, allocating storage, maintaining scripts and configuring backups
Effectively prioritise tasks to ensure high priority activities are completed first

Essential skills
Exposure to and application of IBM Flash Systems - knowledge and experience of replication using global mirror, metro mirror and change volumes
Exposure to and application of cluster management within Spectrum Scale, Oracle and ESXi environments
Exposure to and application Spectrum Scale - protocols to include GPFS, NFS, and SMB in active-active topology
Explore to or awareness of GKLM (SKLM)
Awareness of how actions can affect availability
Provision and redaction of storage across the IBM storage estate - all technologies
Experience of working with Linux command line technologies
Experience of ticket management using ServiceNow

Desirable skills 
An appreciation of Cloud technologies (AWS) and associated features
Knowledge of AWS server administration and features
Some experience of working within an Agile delivery environment
An understanding of VMware products including vSphere, vRealize & related technologies
An understanding of Cisco UCS & HPE infrastructure
An understanding of virtualization architectures and some experience supporting.