Data Centre Engineer
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12-07-2024
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Job Description
We are looking for a Data Centre Engineer to join the team at one of our most valued clients a Big 4 consultancy supporting an IT transformation for a large energy client.
The successful candidate will integrate into the consultancys team and work directly with the end client providing subject matter expertise to support the project.
Type of job: Contract / freelance
Working hours: Fulltime (40 hours / week)
Duration: ASAP 31.12.2024 with option of further extensions
Location: Hybrid remote with occasional visits to client site Berlin (negotiable)
Industry: Energy
Application deadline: 16.07.2024
Project background
The team is building an internal platform (EDP) for software product developers to accelerate the development and delivery of software products to tackle the massive challenges facing the energy sector. The platform is a service oriented cloudnative platform that is being built to provide application teams with selfservice capabilities to develop run and operate their software products. The platform provides services for application infrastructure data service lifecycle management application build and delivery as well as services to operate their software products. The platform is deployed in a hybrid cloud encompassing both private cloud and select public clouds.
We are looking for talented experienced and motivated individuals to join this project.
Position description
The infrastructure product line offers data centre services that are provided through a software layer to other product lines within the programme.
The Data Centre Engineer is a member of the network subgroup and reports to the Data Centre Delivery lead. The Data Centre Engineer is responsible for planning and delivering the infrastructure in line with the architectural and operational requirements as they are documented.
Using their knowledge the Data Centre Engineer will create the appropriate documentation and hand over operational documentation to enable structured and standardised maintenance.
While the project is in startup mode the Data Centre Engineer feels comfortable taking on tasks outside the defined core competencies and is openly creating the necessary communication channels within the various organisations working on this programme.
Key activities
- Successful Data Centre delivery: The Data Centre Engineer has the knowledge to plan implement and document the inscope environment as defined.
- Integration into processes: The Data Centre Engineer follows the designed processes to achieve successful work and collaboration as well as detailed documentation.
- Continuous Improvement and Adaptation: The Data Centre Engineer actively validates implementation processes in his responsibility and ensures to create and update the needed scripts and jobs. The Data Centre Engineer actively informs the team lead and the engineers about detected deviations and required corrections as well as configuration adjustments. The Data Centre Engineer further reports observations in case configuration do not deliver the required security standards.
- Effective Collaboration and Communication: The Data Centre Engineer does have the capability to explain technical requirements properly. The Data Centre Engineer has an open mindset to collaborate within technical alignments.
- SelfOrganisation: The Data Centre Engineer has the capability to organise the work handed over according to prioritisation and complexity. The Data Centre Engineer tracks the status and reports actively. In case further information is required the Data Centre Engineer will actively investigate to find the relevant contact and start resolving the issue aligned with the engineers.
Requirements
Eligibility
- All candidates must be resident in and have the unrestricted right to work in the EU
- All candidates must be able to travel to the client site in Berlin as required (travel allowance will be paid)
Musthave competencies / skills
- The individual must have at least 5 years data centre experience in enterprise and/or largescale data centre context
- A CCNA or equivalent certification is required
- The individual should be able to communicate with peers and engineers clearly about the status of the environment
- Problem analysis and resolution competencies which covering the dependencies to layers above and below the network topics
Data centre
- Good experience with datacenter infrastructures racking and stacking
- Good experience with power cabling passive and active network cabling
- Installing and configuring (basic) data centre infrastructure including patch fields servers racks switches and other hardware (rack and stack)
- Assisting with disaster recovery operations in the event of power failures fires or other disasters
- Complying with and maintaining security standards within the data centre
- Experience with Jira Confluence and/or Miro
- Understanding of Linux and Windows environments
Language
- Fluent English
data centre, data center
Employment Type
Full Time
Key Skills
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