Junior Product Engineer (Hosting) – Barcelona

The Client

Our client is a Managed Hosting Services supplier, firmly positioned amongst Europe’s leading companies. The Company, with over 10 years’ experience in the field, designs, implements and manages critical internet infrastructures, security technologies and applications services for clients on a global scale.

The Role

The Product Engineer performs and manages the technical aspects of engineering and development of products and services, centring on these principal functions:

• Definition, organization and consolidation of market and technical requirements
• Evaluation of technologies and vendors in order to propose solutions
• Creation, communication and management of technical project plans
• Maintenance and management of technical product documentation
• Close collaboration with Operations and Infrastructure teams
• Management and development of the environment used to provision Windows, Linux and Solaris servers
• Day-to-day systems administration, management, design and deployment of infrastructure servers
• Creation of OS builds images for server deployment, including customisation and automation of OS and application installation, setting the build definitions and standards
• New product engineering, existing product refinement
• Active contributions to infrastructure development and planning., involving testing and evaluation of new equipment, documentation and deployment
• Provision of expert advice to all support tiers, operations teams, product management, procurement, local sales and sales consultants

The Candidate Profile

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems or equivalent experience
• More than 5 years’ experience in a large Data Center Environment and related technologies
• Experience managing 100s of servers in a Data Center Environment  and support in a LAN/WAN environment
• More than 2 years’ experience managing a complex multi-domain Active Directory Forest
• Cisco CCNA and IBM Hardware qualifications/ certifications. Series X preferred
• Certification/ training in NetApps, Veritas Netbackup, Storage/ Backup (other vendors)
• Excellent written/oral communication skills with very strong English; knowledge of French, Spanish or German a plus
• Sound business sense, strong customer/market focus, excellent analytical skills and technical creativity
• Advanced knowledge of Windows, Linux, Solaris, TCP/IP networking, web and middleware, and content delivery
• Experience with firewalls, VPN, IDS/IPS, content filtering, etc.
• Experience in managed services or application hosting environments
• Demonstrated strong documentation skills
• Automated server deployment systems – Network based PXE Server OS installs in the data center environment i.e. Remote Installation Services (RIS), ADS, WDS, BDD
• Automation and customisation of installation of OS and applications for Server Builds
• Scripting experience essential – bash, PERL. Python and C# a bonus
• LDAP / Microsoft Active Directory – Planning / design / implementation / admin/support
• Clustering – Planning/design/implementation/admin/support
• Experience of the Redhat and Solaris license models
• Microsoft/ Unix interoperability, LDAP
• Storage – SAN/NAS/DAS, ISCSI/FC. NetApps and IBM DS series preferred
• Experience of disaster recovery/ repair & restore of Linux/Solaris server OS
• Experience with deployment/support/admin of Veritas (Symantec) Netbackup for Linux (Redhat, Debian, Ubuntu), Windows and Solaris OS and Oracle Agents
• Strong TCP/IP networking skills. Firewalls, DNS, routing protocols (OSPF, BGP), web servers (IIS, Apache)
• VMWare ESX Virtual Infrastructure

Enviar CV a pjc@esptalent.com