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Unix and Storage Engineering Support

2014-04-14 17:35:36| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS

Dear Sir or Madam, We are currently in search of support for the following project. This position is available on a permanent basis. POSITION ID 2128 ROLE FUNCTION Unix and Storage Engineering Support in Darmstadt Germany GENERAL CONDITIONS START 1 July 2014 PERIOD 2 years 2 options for extension, each option stands for 1 year LOCATION Darmstadt TYPE OF BUSINESS Science CONTRACT fulltime employment WORKING LANGUAGE English, French is considered an advantage DEADLINE 27 May 2014 PROFILE In addition to having a university degree or equivalent, the Key person shall have minimum of 3 years experience in the administration and troubleshooting of distributed storage and computing systems. The experience should have been made in an operational or production environment, characterized by custom applications in addition to standard software, running both on the client and server side, and by high availability requirements. MUSTHAVE SKILLS MANDATORY 4.1 Technical skills, experience knowledge Proven knowledge and handson experience with the following is mandatory expert knowledge and a significant work experience in administration of Unix or Linux operating systems in highly available environments managed by cluster software Sun, Redhat, VMWare or equivalent extensive experience in operating, maintaining and monitoring SAN environments, managing Brocade or equivalent switches, EMC or equivalent middle and enterprise storage arrays serving many different types of storage client platform via a virtual layer VPLEX or equivalent good experience in operating, maintaining and monitoring Backup and recovery solutions Symantec NetBackup or equivalent Generation and maintenance of technical documentation in English NICETOHAVE SKILLS CONSIDERED AS AN ADVANTAGE Experience in the administration and troubleshooting on the following shall be considered as an advantage High end, automated, tape library systems StorageTek SL8500 series with ACSLS software including the archive solutions using Hierarchical Storage Management HSM system SAMFS or equivalent VTL and Data Deduplication technologies Setting up and maintaining security systems, on host, network and storage level e.g. firewalls, SSL, encryption SAN Fabric security TCPIP internetworking and the related network protocols and applications, e.g NIS,NFS, DNS, SNMP, FTP 4.2 Role Competency The key person shall possess the following skills Teamwork Integrity Share expertise and experience with other team members provide crosstraining and support. Accept criticism positively and be willing to adapt and change habitual methods of working. Planning and Organisation Prepare in advance and in detail critical activities, to be shared for review and approval prior to the actual execution of the work. Coordinate and communicate activities with key stakeholders users, suppliers, QA, CM Problem Solving Innovation Take ownership of problems through to effective resolution. Develop initiatives to resolve underlying issues that go beyond the immediate problem. Take steps to minimise risks. Communication Possess excellent verbal and written communications skills and be confident to deal with a wide variety of people and to influence at all levels. Have excellent presentation and training skills with the ability to deliver a message such that it generates learning and understanding. Customer Focus Orientation Value our customers, anticipate and understand their needs and request feedback, strive to achieve excellence and to improve customer satisfaction. Recognise and act expeditiously on opportunities to improve service, liaising with relevant internal teams to ensure tasks are acted upon. TASKS As a member of the Computer and Storage Management team, the key person shall provide support to the development and maintenance of storage systems with special focus on archive and retrieval services. The duties include the administration and operation of the central archive systems, administration of backup and Unix systems, maintenance of the external storage, inventory and support to the operation of the storage and computing services. The key person shall perform the following tasks monitoring of the facility services, computing, storage, backup and archive performance, investigation into HW and SW problems and performance of the relevant corrective actions ensuring that in case of HW or SW failures the operational configuration can be restored, including the definition, maintenance, performance of backuparchive procedures liaison with the external providers of HW and SW maintenance for the request and follow up of maintenance interventions analysis, planning and performance of HW and SW upgrades or reconfigurations, taking care of compatibility issues between computing and storage subsystems implementation and maintenance of scripts andor procedures where applicable for the automated andor controlled execution of the above activities, generation or update of associated technical documentation provision of standbyoncall support provision of support, as required, to critical operations. In the performance of these tasks, the key person shall apply the configuration and change control procedures as well as the relevant system engineering standards, quality management procedures and maintenance procedures. The tasks assigned to the key person will be agreed through dedicated workpackages with clear identification of activities and outputs expected. For more Details about the Tasks, please feel free to contact Ms. Bianca Brankers Corporate Recruiter

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