Infrastructure Systems Engineer who has good experience supporting Operating Systems, writing Scripts (PowerShell, Python, Bash, Go or similar) with the ability to thrive in a collaborative and cross-function environment is required to join our team at Iron Mountain in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.

SALARY: Very Competitive + Bonus + Benefits

LOCATION: Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire

JOB TYPE: Full-Time, Permanent

JOB OVERVIEW

We’re expanding our Infrastructure Systems Engineering Team and have a fantastic new job opportunity for an Infrastructure Systems Engineer who has good experience supporting Operating Systems, writing Scripts (PowerShell, Python, Bash, Go or similar) with the ability to thrive in a collaborative and cross-function environment.

Working as the Infrastructure Systems Engineer you will directly support a specific customer’s digital imaging solutions, while maintaining close ties to similar teams within the Enterprise Information Technology organisation. This team is responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, security, emergency response, and capacity planning. The Iron Mountain infrastructure engineers create a bridge between development and operations by applying a DevOps approach and software engineering mindset to system administration topics.

The ideal candidate for this role is a proven Infrastructure Engineer, experience with a DevOps methodology, and abilities to work with various departments within Iron Mountain to create and develop systems, to support our UK Public Sector activities. This involves, creating and implementing systems software and analysing data to improve existing ones, all while increasing productivity in the workplace. Solutions may consist of proven or unproven technologies or multiple implementation technologies at once within domains that experience rapid change.

Our Infrastructure Engineer would need advanced knowledge of infrastructure, scripting skills, and engineering disciplines. This role requires equal parts development and operations with a software engineer mindset. Using technical and operational skills, this role will increase application reliability at scale.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain is a global leader for storage and information services.

At Iron Mountain we protect what our customers value most, from the everyday to the extraordinary, while helping them bridge the physical and digital world. Our people have the opportunity to bring their creativity to a workplace that thrives on change. Here, you will be part of a team that doesn’t just embrace what’s exceptional. It creates exceptional.

Iron Mountain Data Centres, a division of Iron Mountain incorporated, is a leading provider of wholesale data centre and colocation services. The company’s national portfolio of underground and purpose-built data centres addresses the exacting requirements of highly regulated organisations such as Federal Government agencies, Fortune 1000 enterprises, healthcare and life sciences organisations, financial services companies and cloud services providers. Iron Mountain data centre services include dedicated data centres, private data centre suites, secure cages, individual cabinets, helping hands remote support, and carrier-neutral network services. For more than 30 years, discerning colocation customers continue to choose Iron Mountain data centre services for the company’s proven track record, successful relationships, maximum efficiency, predictable results and established reputation as the safe choice.

DUTIES

* Build software to help operations and support teams

* Write clean, high-performance, and well tested, infrastructure code with a focus on reusability and automation

* Develop monitoring, define SLAs, SLOs and error budgets for mission critical platforms while helping to coordinate product launches and reliability exercises

* Collaborate and contribute with other enterprise teams on Iron Mountain’s digital transformation journey

* Work closely with Architects and provide support to senior staff, ensuring designs align with the technological and business directions across the company

* Support IT deployments with involvement Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

* Manage central platforms as a service for growth and scale

* Implement enhancements to the company's digital and data infrastructure, supporting customer's needs

* Take part in on-call rotations

* Document previous “tribal knowledge” and eliminate tech debt

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

* Bachelor's Degree or equivalent relevant work experience

* Ability to clear Government Security clearance (SC)

* Able to thrive in a collaborative and cross-functional environment

* Ability to be part of an international team, working with remote collaborators

* Experience with Operating System, troubleshooting and coding/scripting using high-level languages

* Experience with infrastructure systems that support enterprise data science and analytics capabilities, including streaming and real-time analytics

* Deep understanding of common scripting languages (PowerShell, Python, Bash, Go)

* Experience working with on premise hyperconverged environments (Nutanix)

* Experience working with virtualization platforms (VMware, Acropolis)

* Desire to deliver automation to the Windows Server platform

* Experience with current pipeline tools (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Packer, Git)

* Involvement in some on-premise to cloud migration or Application Modernization efforts

* Experience managing a full application stack with high availability requirements

* Full Stack troubleshooting experience including networking, operating system (Windows Server, RHEL/CentOS), HA Proxy, Nginx, RDBMS is preferred

* Experience leveraging monitoring tools to meet contracted SLAs with SLO and SLI responsibilities

* Strong written and verbal communication skills

In addition to the above criteria you must able to attain UK Government Security Clearance within the 3 month probation period.

In return Iron Mountain offers a competitive remuneration, excellent training and career prospects associated with a global super brand.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

HOW TO APPLY

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