Storage Administrator

For more than 20 years, Talan has been advising companies, supporting them and implementing their transformation projects in France and internationally. Present on four continents, Talan aims to achieve a turnover of 350 million euros for 4,000 consultants in 2021. The group puts innovation at the heart of its development and intervenes in areas linked to technological changes such as Big Data, IoT, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence.

• Storage and Backup (traditional and cloud) administration and engineering in a large 24x7 storage and backup environment operating within the realms of ITIL processes
• Development of documentation and procedures
• Software development tasks using Python, Flask, Git, Ansible, etc.
• Closely communicate with both IT and business partners to design and implement solutions supporting business needs
• Diagnose and troubleshoot complex technical environments on distributed applications and infrastructure
• Contribute to market-watch initiatives and recommend solutions to improve the environment
• Ensure procedures are followed and mechanisms are in place to ensure compliance to technical designs, best practices, and are well supported
• Serve as a subject matter expert and escalation point

Excellent technical skills on the following technologies:

• Block storage (3+ years) e.g. VMAX, VNX, Brocade, Pure
• Backups (3+ years) e.g. NetBackup, DataDomain, Veeam
• NAS (Netapp) (3+ years)
• Object storage (S3, CEPH) (1+ year)
• Dev (Python/Git) (1+ year)

Proficient in:

• Server OSs (Linux, Windows)
• Configuration management (Ansible, Salt)
• Cloud technology

Desired / Plus:

• Openstack experience
• API development experience
• CI/CD
  

Competencies:

• Client focused, must have a strong customer service mentality and ability to work with developers, users, and other staff
• Able to work in a team environment while interacting across different group to accomplish projects
• Hands-on design and implementation experience
• Strong focus on automation and orchestration
• Be available for weeknight and weekend on-call support
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and oral.

Experience needed:

• Exposure to large production environment storage and backup administration and engineering
• Experience on call
• Exposure to ITIL/change management environment
• Exposure to DR simulations

Languages: French required