IT Infrastructure Engineer Contractor urgently required for a 6 month Data Center migration project. The core skills are in VMware, Storage and some Networking potentially. The client are migrating from a Datacentre in London to ones in Maidenhead and Gosport. You will have the opportunity to implement the kit fresh from the box.
Experience in working in a datacentre environment, including:
* Racking of datacentre equipment
* Deploying ESXi hosts environments in vSphere 6 environment
* Experience in ESXi patching with VMware Update Manager
* Experience in patching Dell EMC Hardware PowerEdge Hardware (Lifecycle Controller/ iDRAC)
* Experience in Compellent and / or Dell EMC SC Storage technologies (Including LUN Provisioning, Firmware Updates, Storage Tier Management, Relay Management)
* Knowledge of Networking fundamentals including: (VLANs / Spanning Tree / LACP)
* Experience in deploying Dell EMC Unity (Commissioning, LUN and Server mapping provisioning)
* Experience in managing Fortinet Fortigate's. (Policy management / VPN Management)
* Experience in Dell EMC Force10 / N-Series Switching (VLT / Stacking)
* Experience with VMware NSX or vShield
* Documenting a datacentre environment
Location wise it is envisioned that you will be in Data Centers in the main at the beginning but then out of them once the kit has been racked. You will then need to be able to be based in Fareham for 2 days per week and the remainder can be from home.
Ideally familiar in the following technologies (not all essential):
* VMware vSphere 6.5 /6.7
* Dell EMC PowerEdge
* Dell EMC PowerVault
* Dell EMC ME
* Dell EMC SC Storage
* Dell EMC Unity Storage
* Dell EMC Force10
* Fortinet Fortigate
* Cisco IOS
* Cisco Meraki
* VSphere NSX
* Windows Server
Urgent contract - please apply now