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Data Center Engineer

MigrationIT Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

Apr 05
Mid (2-5 yrs) Full-time Egypt
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About the role

The Data Center Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and monitoring IT infrastructure, including servers, storage, and energy usage. They also perform regular backups, automate processes via scripting, and provide technical support for applications and operating systems.

What they look for

VMware Administration Storage Administration SAN NAS Backup Systems Data Protection Systems Security Veritas NetBackup EMC Brocade Cisco MDS iSCSI Fiber Channel HCI Nutanix Vxrail

Requirements

Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree in a relevant field and possess at least 2 years of experience in storage, backup, and systems security. Proficiency in VMware, SAN/NAS technologies, and hardware from vendors like IBM, EMC, or HP is required.

Full description

  • Design, implement, and

monitor information technology systems at a data center.

  • Monitoring and

maintaining DC equipment, resolving issues as they arise, and planning for future growth or changes in technology.

  • Installing and configuring new servers, storage

devices.

  • Conducting capacity assessments of existing

infrastructure to ensure that it can support future growth.

  • Maintaining detailed documentation of all server and

storage configurations and changes made to them.

  • Performing regular backups of data.
  • Providing technical support for applications and

operating systems used in the data center.

  • Writing scripts to automate common processes within the

data center environment.

  • Monitoring energy usage across the data centers to

ensure efficient operation.

  • VMware Administration

experience ( ESXI , VCenter , VROPS , Replication, VRNI , VRLI, VSAN ).

  • Storage Administration

experience ( SAN , NAS ) + SAN Switches - Perform daily Storage operational tasks, LUN/Space provisioning, monitoring, troubleshoot issues (e.g. latency, etc.), and initiate corrective actions.

  • ​Perform problem

management and incident correlation on re-occurring issues; suggest and document workarounds & solutions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in communication engineering, computer science or related field.
  • 2+ Years of experience in storage

& backup systems, data protection and systems security across multiple redundant data centers.

  • ITIL Foundation, ITIL Transition and ITIL Operation

certificates are a plus.

  • Valid product certifications in technologies listed

below would be a major asset.

  • Experience in backup software technologies, Veritas NetBackup and/or EMC NW are preferred.
  • Experience in overall backup and storage design and

related issues.

  • Experience in disk or tape-based backup hardware.
  • Experience in storage hardware technologies; IBM, EMC or HP.
  • Knowledge of SAN fabric technologies. Brocade or Cisco

MDS are preferred.

  • knowledge of iSCSI and Fiber Channel infrastructure.
  • Knowledge of VMware Infrastructure.
  • ​Knowledge of HCI ( Nutanix & Vxrail ).