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