SC Cleared Infrastructure Engineer

Salt are recruiting for an immediate requirement with a central government client of ours who is looking for a SC Cleared Infrastructure Engineer.

This will be an Inside IR35 contract for 3 months initially. It would be a hybrid role with 2 days a week expected in office, based in Exeter.

It is expected that the focus will be to reduce the burden on the small team by providing BAU support for the client’s storage estate and VMWare environment, predominantly responsible for responding to incidents, investigating problems, and implementing changes. This role will also be asked to work on specific VMWare clusters and new IBM storage systems.

As an Infrastructure Engineer the job would include these areas of focus:

* Managing and supporting the clients VMware estate and as well as a small number of outstations

* Installing and configuring new VMWare hosts, to refresh existing clusters;

* Managing and supporting a number of storage systems that underpin operational infrastructure, such as IBM V7000 and Flash Systems 7200, Dell/EMC Isilon/Powerscale cluster, DDN storage arrays and Net App AFF-A300;

* Installing and configuring new IBM Flashsystem 7300, working with consultancy service, and migrating from IBM V7000 systems.

Other responsibilities:

* Storage Systems from vendors such as Dell EMC, IBM, DDN, NetApp

* Underpinning virtualisation via VMware

* Centralised Backup and Restore Service for the client (now a ‘hybrid’ solution hosted on on-premise storage and AWS

* Mainframes hosting a variety of critical Linux and z/OS based services

* Data archiving

Candidate’s who do not hold an existing SC clearance will be rejected automatically.