Beschreibung
This position, based near Frankfurt in Germany, calls for at least five years experience of computer/operations room infrastructure.Our client is responsible for establishing and operating weather forecasting and Earth observation satellite programmes with associated data telemetry and dissemination operations. Vast quantities of data are produced and user communities throughout the world are able to access both current and historical data sets. The demanding Real Time environment places much emphasis on adherence to quality and configuration management standards and procedures.
This role is linked to the launch of a new satellite programme and will embrace:-
- Definition of requirement specifications covering computer/operations rooms and storage network infrastructure
- Definition of parameters such as square metres, power, cooling capacity etc
- Contributing to the definition of layouts in the operations rooms
- Performing the physical installation of eg cables, interface panels, racks, network devices and furniture
- Maintenance of installation documentation, including layout diagrams, infrastructure interface control documents, cabling database, network diagrams etc
- Evaluating compatibility of proposed and existing storage network infrastructures
- Liaison with external suppliers of maintenance services
- Support to system commissioning operations
The key experience and attributes sought are:-
- Server/operations room layout design including efficient use of power and cooling
- Inter-room and inter-building data connection techniques
- Rack installation, cable laying and equipment installation and testing
- Power distribution infrastructure
- Technical drawing software packages eg Visio
- Operation of backup and recovery solutions under NetBackup or equivalent
- Setting up and maintaining security systems at host, network, fabric and storage level (eg Firewalls, SSL, encryption)
Knowledge of some of the following would be advantageous:
- Enterprise environments with local and distributed networks (LANs and WANs)
- Unix variants eg Linux, Solaris, AIX
- Perl and PHP Scripting
Candidates should possess a University degree or equivalent. Fluency in English is essential and a working knowledge of French advantageous. This is a freelance contract assignment with an initial period of 18 months starting as soon as is feasible with three options to extend for further periods of one year each.
Pactum have supplied professional recruitment services to clients throughout the UK and across continental Europe since 1988. We operate as a group of practices focussed onto specific markets and have been successfully recruiting for the Space sector since 2002
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