Data Centre Storage Engineer

Requirements :

• This posting is for UK Nationals, unfortunately due to the nature of the end client we're unable to progress applicant's of dual nationality.
• To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance - the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, and not have been outside of the UK for more than 28 Days at any one time.

Location: London / UK Wide Location – Hybrid working

Salary: £70,000 + Pension + Private Healthcare

Your Role

• Migrating Workloads to Cloud – working as part of a team to migrate application workloads to public cloud, taking end-to-end responsibility for the storage and data workloads 

• Platform Modernisation – helping clients embrace cloud storage solutions, moving away from complex on-premise solutions 

• Public Cloud Deployment – working with a DevOps or SRE squad, providing expertise across all storage and data domains, often including modern application hosting solutions such as docker, Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. Optimising how data is stored, persisted and secured – helping to improve resilience, availability, monitoring, automation and security, often in public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), using open source, commercial and cloud platform tools & services. 

• Hybrid Cloud - working in environments that integrate on-premises and cloud storage to deal with performance, sovereignty and security of data 

• ERP to Cloud – helping customers adopt public cloud for ERP (SAP, Oracle) solutions, often with complex data storage, resiliency and backup needs 

Key Skills and Experience

• In-depth knowledge of storage technologies, having worked across traditional data centre SAN/NAS and backup technologies 

• Experience working with storage technologies in public cloud – object, file, backup, archive. Can demonstrate having delivered cloud storage-based solutions in a project context having been accountable for technical delivery and quality. 

• Knowledge of DevOps and SRE delivery models – being able to work in a team or squad, adopting agile methods and ways of working. Knowledge of modern application hosting platforms beneficial (docker, Kubernetes and/or Red Hat OpenShift) 

• Knowledge and experience in one or more public cloud platforms and a good all-round knowledge of infrastructure technologies (compute, storage, networks, data, security) 

• Demonstrate and provide evidence of the ability to interact with team members and clients, develop documentation effectively, and present themselves professionally. 

Desirable:

• Data centre background, transformation from on prem to azure cloud – Azure / AWS

Your security clearance

Security Check (SC) Clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. 

To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.

Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

To apply please click the “Apply” button and follow the instructions.

83DATA is a boutique Tech & Data Recruitment Consultancy based within the UK. We provide high quality interim and permanent Tech & Data professionals.