As support to a European space company we are looking for a Storage Area Network System Engineer

Activities

Our customer is a European organisation providing weather and climate-related satellite data, images and products for its users. You will be working onsite as part of the Operations Department - Maintenance and Engineering Division team. Your tasks will include:

• Provide support to the development and maintenance of storage systems with special focus on archive and retrieval services
• Administration and operation of the central archive systems, maintenance of the external storage, inventory and support to the operation of the storage services
• Monitoring of the facility services, storage and archive performance, investigation into H/W and S/W problems and performance of the relevant corrective actions
• Ensuring that in case of H/W or S/W failures the operational configuration can be restored, including the definition, maintenance, performance of backup/archive procedures
• Analysis, planning and performance of H/W and S/W upgrades or reconfigurations, taking care of compatibility issues between storage subsystems;
• Implementation and maintenance of scripts and/or procedures where applicable for the automated and/or controlled execution of the above activities
• Provision of support to design future evolution of the facility to accommodate the requirements of current and future programs, generation and maintenance of associated documentation;
• Provision of stand-by/on-call support

Skills

You ideally have the following qualifications and experience:

• University degree in a relevant discipline
• Several years of professional experience in the administration and troubleshooting of distributed storage systems, preferably in an operational or production environment, characterized by custom applications in addition to standard software, and by high availability requirements
• Expert knowledge and an extensive work experience in the UNIX operating system, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Backup/Archive technologies
• Fluency in English is mandatory; French would be an asset

Deadline for application: 24th May 2011

Please note: Due to work permit restrictions for this position, please apply only if you are citizen of a European Union state or if you already hold a work permit for Germany.

HE Space Operations is a growing international space company. For over 25 years we have provided our customers with consultancy services in Engineering and Business Administration.