Senior System Engineering Specialist with 9+ years' experience is needed for a 12 month contract in Strasbourg in France. The ideal Senior System Engineering Specialist must either hold EU Secret clearance or be Clearable. This role will pay €500 EUROS a day

Tasks

• IT support, design and troubleshooting ranging from large Server, SAN farms to complex platforms;
• Configuration/Troubleshooting of Virtual environments: VMware vSphere, vSAN, Horizon;
• Server management, Operating System (OS) knowledge (UNIX, Linux, Windows);
• Design, implementation and administration of backup and restore on solutions like VEEAM and StoreOnce;
• Administration of Servers, bladesystems and composable infrastructure;
• Administration of Storage systems on traditional SAN, CEPH and VSAN;
• Managing OCP platform in DEVOPS mode with related supporting systems like Red Hat Service Mesh, GitHub, Helm, GitOps, Ansible Automation
• Platform, Kafka;
• Development, execution and troubleshooting of Ansible and PowerShell scripts;
• PKI and certificate administration;
• Administration of monitoring systems like Nagios, Splunk;
• Administration of Oracle infrastructure, namely EXADATA and ZDRLA;
• Administration of Mail Servers and mail relays (postfix), anti-virus and anti-spam;
• Centralized deployment of software and updates.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Skills

• 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.

Education Requirements

Minimum 4 years of relevant education (master or equivalent) after the secondary school.

Role - Senior System Engineering Specialist

Location - Strasbourg

Rate €500 Euros per day

Duration - 12 Months