Senior ICT Server Infrastructure Project Engineer

STACK Infrastructure; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

STACK Infrastructure in Melbourne seeks a Senior ICT Server Infrastructure Project Engineer to lead the design, deployment, commissioning and handover of highly available server, storage and virtualization infrastructure for new data centre projects.

You will work with the OT Engineering team to size compute/storage, prepare BOMs, rack elevations and cabling plans, and coordinate with vendors to meet project timelines and successful handover to operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Engineering, IT or CS.
• At least five years in a System Integrator project-delivery role delivering server/storage/virtualisation infra.
• Experience with VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, clustering and HA.

Responsibilities

• Design highly available server, storage and virtualisation platforms for data-centre projects.
• Produce compute and storage sizing calculations, BOMs, rack elevations, cabling schedules.
• Coordinate with ICT vendors to deploy the intended infrastructure on time.
• Develop and execute test scripts for server, storage and virtualisation testing and commissioning.
• Oversee handover of services to operations and support teams.

Skills

Server hardware

SAN/NAS storage

Virtualisation

Data centre projects

Education

Bachelor's or Diploma in Engineering/IT/CS

Tools

NetApp ONTAP

Pure Storage FlashArray

Dell PowerEdge

HPE ProLiant

Cisco UCS

Job description

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) is an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. We provide digital infrastructure that enables the world’s most innovative companies to scale, with facilities that meet or exceed the highest industry standards for availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience.

As a well-established data center business across APAC, the Americas, and Europe, STACK has successfully built several data centers in Melbourne and continues to expand its project portfolio with the goal of becoming a market leader in the hyperscale data center market.

STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data, Data runs on STACK.

Summary/Objective

STACK is seeking an experienced Senior ICT Server Infrastructure Project Engineer to lead the design, deployment, commissioning and operational handover of highly available server, storage and virtualisation infrastructure for new data centre projects. Reporting to the Senior Manager, ICT Engineering, this delivery-focused role requires strong System Integrator project experience and hands-on expertise in server hardware, SAN/NAS storage, virtualisation and clustered platforms.

Key Responsibility

Support the OT Engineering team to design highly available, fault-tolerant platforms, including VMware vSphere clusters, Microsoft Hyper-V failover clusters, and SAN/NAS storage layouts.

Work closely with the OT Engineering team to produce compute and storage sizing calculations, hardware Bills of Materials, rack elevations, and cabling/port schedules for server, storage and virtualisation builds for new project tenders.

Manage and coordinate with ICT vendors to ensure the intended server, storage and virtualisation design for the campus is successfully deployed to meet project timelines.

Develop and execute test scripts for server, storage and virtualisation infrastructure Testing & Commissioning, including HA/failover, replication, backup/restore and performance validation.

Oversee the transition and successful handover of Network, Server and Storage services to operations and support teams.

Qualification and required technical and working experience

Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Engineering, Information Technology or Computer Science.

At least five years of hands-on experience within a System Integrator project-delivery team, delivering successful implementations of server, storage and virtualisation infrastructure for data centres or large, complex IT infrastructure projects.

Strong hands-on knowledge of server hardware architecture, including Dell PowerEdge, HPE ProLiant, Cisco UCS or Lenovo, and out-of-band management.

Core skills in enterprise SAN/NAS storage arrays, with hands-on experience across NetApp ONTAP and/or Pure Storage FlashArray.

Strong virtualisation skills across VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V, including clustering, HA, DRS, vMotion, Live Migration and Hyper-V Replica.

Equal Opportunity Employer

STACK provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.