IT Engineer (Servers and Storage)
Role Overview
Join a customer-focused systems-administration team supporting Windows servers and services, with a focus on VMware, storage, automation, and backup.
The role is responsible for servers and virtualization and is permanent.
Key Skills for This Role
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About University Information Services
University Information Services provides digital infrastructure, business information, and computing services for the University of Cambridge.
Role overview
Join a customer-focused systems-administration team supporting Windows servers and services, with a focus on VMware, storage, automation, and backup.
The role is responsible for servers and virtualization and is permanent.
Responsibilities
- Support, enhance, and transform core IT server infrastructure.
- Implement and support VMware technologies, using automation and scripting where possible.
- Maintain business-continuity measures and reduce the impact of systems failure.
- Monitor, diagnose, and proactively fix issues.
- Own team technical projects that improve infrastructure.
- Automate administration of systems and services at scale and maintain accurate documentation.
- Work with software, network, security, database, project, and service teams across the University.
- Design systems, choose suitable technologies, and keep technical skills up to date.
Technical requirements
- VMware systems-administration experience.
- Scripting and automation skills; Python and PowerShell experience are particularly valuable.
- Enterprise NAS and SAN systems and backup-system administration.
- Experience running third-party server applications on Windows Server.
- Understanding of how IT layers interoperate from networking through applications and services; VMware hypervisor, networking, and automation skills are useful.
Professional skills
- Strong troubleshooting skills.
- Good communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
Workplace
- Usually based at the University's West Cambridge Site.
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