(SC cleared) Senior Technical Specialist (NetApp/Backup) at Methods, England, £Contract Rate

Daily rate: £600 outside IR35 + travel expenses

Duration: 12 months with possible extension

Location: 3days/w onsite in Stevenage (ideally), otherwise Newport or Portsmouth.

***Must be SC cleared***

Methods is looking for a Senior Technical Specialist deep understanding of NetApp, responsible for executing and technically validating all Compute, Virtualisation, Storage and Backup activities.

Key skills needed:

• NetApp.
• storage replication.
• Veeam for backup.
• Understanding of key tasks to commission and decommission NetApp systems.

Some of the activities include:

• Deliver and manage NetApp SAN and Filers. Some are being replaced and some need upgrade to pass to managed service
• Assess and remediate storage & backup obsolescence
• Execute and coordinate Ransomware Wave 1 & Wave 2 technical activities
• Manage and fulfil infrastructure requests (IPs, DNS, Firewall, VLANs, installations)
• Supervise and coordinate vendors and Build Factory technical inputs
• Contribute to and produce BRDs and technical documentation

Highly experienced hands on infrastructure engineer with deep technical expertise across secure, air gapped and defence environments.

His core strengths:

• Storage: NetApp
• Backup: Veeam, NetBackup
• Operating Systems: RHEL, Rocky, CentOS, Windows Server
• Automation: Ansible, PowerShell

Security environments: SC/air gapped/defence contexts