Storage Platforms Engineer – Hybrid & On-Call Role

Kingfisher plc; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Health Care

Kingfisher Pension Scheme

25 Days' Holiday

Staff Discount

Kingfisher Share Incentive Plan (SIP)

Life Assurance

Bonus

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Job summary

Kingfisher plc in the UK is seeking a Technical Specialist to own the operation and improvement of enterprise storage, backup and storage networking services. You will ensure secure, resilient, cost-efficient and high-performing platforms, working with colleagues across infrastructure, engineering and security teams.

The role is based at a B&Q office near Southampton with hybrid travel and 24/7 on-call support in a one-in-four rotation, providing opportunities to design scalable storage

Qualifications

• Experience supporting enterprise storage environments, including block, file and object storage technologies.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise backup, recovery and disaster recovery technologies, including recovery testing and cloud data protection.
• Experience supporting SAN environments, including Fibre Channel, zoning, multipathing, performance optimisation and storage networking technologies.
• Good working knowledge of Windows, Linux, VMware and infrastructure automation or scripting tools.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills, with experience supporting production services through incident, problem and change management processes.

Responsibilities

• Own and support enterprise storage, backup and storage networking platforms, ensuring secure, resilient and high-performing services.
• Deliver operational management of storage services in line with agreed service levels, performance measures and operational standards.
• Manage incidents, problems, changes and major incidents, driving service stability and continuous improvement.
• Monitor capacity, performance and lifecycle requirements to ensure platforms remain scalable, efficient and cost-effective.
• Administer and optimise block, file and object storage technologies, including volumes, shares, snapshots and replication services.
• Support backup, recovery and disaster recovery services, including recovery testing and validation activities.
• Work closely with infrastructure, engineering, architecture, security and supplier partners to deliver platform improvements, upgrades, migrations and automation initiatives.

Tools

NetApp

HPE

IBM storage

Job description

Kingfisher plc in the UK is seeking a Technical Specialist to own the operation and improvement of enterprise storage, backup and storage networking services. You will ensure secure, resilient, cost-efficient and high-performing platforms, working with colleagues across infrastructure, engineering and security teams.

The role is based at a B&Q office near Southampton with hybrid travel and 24/7 on-call support in a one-in-four rotation, providing opportunities to design scalable storage