Location: North Greenwich, London/ 50% office attendance model Salary £52,000 - £58,000 DOE plus fantastic benefits UK Sponsorship is available, although candidates are responsible for their own application fees
Our Current Storage Technology • Dell: Powermax, Powerscale, Powerprotect, Unity, Backups via Data Domains/Avamar, Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) – VxRail, Cisco MDS SAN switches
About us: Networks and Hosting manage and maintain existing IT infrastructure, which underpins most services across TfL. The Storage Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for the full technical ownership of TfLs underpinning the storage environment. The team are becoming more involved with Cloud and HCI (Hyper- Converged Infrastructure) and Cyber Security related storage solutions, and projects like the Storage Tech Refresh programme.
About the Role: You will be accountable for the technical ownership of the Storage Infrastructure including: management, investigation and resolution of Incidents of the supported services. This is to maximise system availability for critical business services in accordance with the agreed service levels.
Main Duties: • Ensure storage systems are highly available and that implementations are fit for purpose. • Liaise with customers/requestors directly as required. • Accurate and timely reporting of the state of the technical environment using monitoring and reporting tools, rectifying any operations that are running outside of their normal state. • Ensure all HW, SW and service configuration elements are recorded correctly. • Plan technical changes. • Implement patching and upgrade activities to ensure that the technology remains compliant and fully supported. • Migrate workloads to contain capacity management trigger points. • Identify and deliver potential areas of improvement to technology or process, with a particular focus on standardising and automation to reduce manual effort. • Work with other technology colleagues and teams to deliver project outcomes. Including; Technical Delivery Managers, Infrastructure Architects, Product Managers, Project Teams.
About you: • You will have significant years hands on experience, managing different types of Storage technology; Block, File and Backups, as well as Cyber Security related Storage Technology. • You will be able to demonstrate a sound grasp and knowledge of Infrastructure technology in general. • You will be able to demonstrate an in-depth level of knowledge and skills relating to all types of storage technology and the purpose/business value that they provide. • You will have experience in other technology areas such as VMware, VSan, Cloud Strong planning and organisation skills – Self-organised. • Highly skilled at solving technical problems. • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, will help you convey technical information to non-technical people. • Strong analytical skills. • You will have good knowledge and skills relating to Azure/AWS Cloud – especially in relation to the storage backup environments.
Closing date: Tuesday 10th December 2024 at 23.59
Excellent Benefits include: • Final salary pension scheme • Free travel for you on the TfL network • Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home or 75% reimbursement on a 28-day flexi ticket • 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays • TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow • Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional) • Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme • Retail, health, leisure and travel offers • Discounted Eurostar travel
Additional Information Please apply by supplying your CV, preferably in “.docx” format. This document should be A4, in Arial 12 font, and a maximum of 2 pages per document.
If you are shortlisted, you may be invited to take part in a Video interview. We endeavour to give candidates as much notice as possible; however, some interviews/ assessments will be organised at short notice and will require a degree of flexibility. We reserve the right to close the application window early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.
Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We'll see what we can do. We understand a confidence gap can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. So please don’t hesitate to apply if you think you have what it takes even if you feel you don’t meet all the criteria. We’d love to hear from you.
