Datacentre Engineer

6 months initially - Cardiff - £22p/h

12 hour shift patterns (various shift patterns available to suit)

We are looking for someone who can help with batch processing and job scheduling for a Datacentre in Cardiff. If you have experience of a job scheduling tool, particularly Control-M, we'd really love to hear from you.

We are looking for someone who can help with systems monitoring and management and observe monitoring consoles and event driven alerts.

You will also be:

Coordinating with vendors when support calls are raised for assistance ( e.g. BT )

Calling on on-call expert staff to respond to an out of hours incident ( e.g. DBA team, Network team )

Taking first line corrective action for agreed and documented administrative systems ( for example re-sending faxes which have failed delivery )

Running & monitoring (not building, but see "Additional Responsibilities" below)

traditional batch schedules, including using automated tools such as Control/M, Visualcron etc.

jobs/scripts to release development changes into production

Other physical duties

Daily removal of tapes and boxing up for off-siting

Activities in the datacentre on power down weekends in support of engineers

Test access to systems to prove availability ( e.g. logon to an application )

Conduct physical patrols to ensure datacentre temperature etc. ( in addition to watching automatic building management alert systems )

All other ad hoc activities reasonably required or expected to ensure smooth operation of the batch processing and datacenter operations as requested under

the supervision of an Operations Coordinator

Ensure security and access procedures are followed, this includes maintenance of related logs and records.

If this sounds like you please apply now for more details