About the job Senior System Engineering Specialist - Hybrid, Strasbourg - L57673X3
Senior System Engineering Specialist
Hybrid, Strasbourg
400-650 euro/day (up to experience)
1. CONTEXT/INTRODUCTION
European Commission Agency which supports the implementation of the EUs Justice and Home Affairs policies by managing large-scale IT systems based in Strasbourg, France.
2.DESCRIPTION OF THE TASKS
o IT support, design and troubleshooting ranging from large Server, SAN farms to complex platforms;
o Configuration/Troubleshooting of Virtual environments: VMware vSphere, vSAN, Horizon;
o Server management, Operating System (OS) knowledge (UNIX, Linux, Windows);
o Design, implementation and administration of backup and restore on solutions like VEEAM and StoreOnce;
o Administration of servers, bladesystems and composable infrastructure;
o Administration of Storage systems on traditional SAN, CEPH and VSAN;
o Managing OCP platform in DEVOPS mode with related supporting systems like Red Hat Service Mesh, GitHub, Helm, GitOps, Ansible Automation Platform, Kafka;
o Development, execution and troubleshooting of Ansible and Powershell scripts; o PKI and certificate administration;
o Administration of monitoring systems like Nagios, Splunk;
o Administration of Oracle infrastructure, namely EXADATA and ZDRLA;
o Administration of mail servers and mail relays (postfix), anti-virus and anti-spam;
o Centralized deployment of software and updates
3.LEVEL OF EDUCATION
Master/Bachelors Degree
4. KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
The following additional skills and knowledge are required for the performance of the above-listed tasks:
- Minimum 7-9 years of relevant professional experience.
- Knowledge and experience with HW management, racking, cabling, replacement,
FW upgrades;
- HW/SW inventory and configuration management;
- Advanced knowledge and experience with VMWare (vSphere, vSAN, Horizon);
- Knowledge and experience with managing Oracle HW;
- Knowledge and advanced experience in Redhat, Windows OS administration of
large farms;
- Active Directory (AD) / LDAP and Keycloak Management;
- Network Attached Storage (NAS) and distributed file systems;
- Centralized IT security policy management;
- Knowledge and experience in administration of servers, bladesystems and
composable infrastructure;
- Knowledge and experience in administration of Backup & Storage systems
(VEEAM, StoreOnce, vSAN, traditional SAN and CEPH);
- Advanced script development and troubleshooting skills (Ansible, Powershell);
- Experience in software compliance monitoring and enforcement;
- Advanced knowledge of OCP platform administration with supporting tools like
Red Hat Service Mesh, GitHub, Helm, GitOps, Ansible Automation Platform,
Kafka;
- Knowledge to support mail servers and mail relays (postfix), antivirus and anti-
spam;
- Basic knowledge on DB systems, MS SQL, Oracle and Elastic search;
- Knowledge and experience with monitoring and observability systems
(configuration, customisation, further development), Prometheus, Grafana,
ElasticSearch, Fluentd, Kibana, Jaeger, NAGIOS and Splunk;
- Excellent analysis and problem solving skills;
- Experience in managing highly available environments and multiple site support;
- Familiar with ITIL/ITIL V3 processes, in particular incident, change, capacity and
configuration management