At the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team, we strive for excellence and are looking for the best and brightest minds to join us in helping to drive performance and improve efficiency. We are a team dedicated to constant improvement and need driven and passionate individuals who demand the best from themselves.
Our Core Technology Team are looking for an Infrastructure Engineer who has the passion and determination to work across a broad cross-section of disciplines and technologies. Working collaboratively with others, you will help to provide and support the IT platforms and services that empower the Team as it works to succeed both on and off the track.
You will thrive on working in a fast paced and ever-changing digital environment and in a role where you get to create innovative solutions across a vast portfolio of technologies. Key Accountabilities of this role include:
Key Accountabilities
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Implementation, support, and maintenance of a broad range of infrastructure including datacentres, storage platforms, VMWare, physical servers, and associated interconnectivity, owning the current and future state to provide secure, high performing, scalable services to the business.
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Support and troubleshooting of Windows and Linux server workloads, virtual machines, clusters, and services.
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Infrastructure security, system protection and continuity (backup/restore/DR).
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Requirements gathering and implementation of new infrastructure projects.
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Providing support and up-skilling to others in IT and the wider organisation as an escalation point.
Technical Skills and Experience
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In-depth knowledge and experience of implementing and supporting enterprise scale VMware clusters and associated underlying infrastructure and storage platforms.
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Experience with Microsoft and Linux OS technologies, platforms, and services including AD/authentication/DNS/DHCP.
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Experience with backup / restore platforms and capabilities.
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Experience with various datacentre infrastructures and systems, networking, firewalls etc.
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Experience of Cloud-based alternatives and offerings to compliment on-premise infrastructures.
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Ideally, backed up by vendor certifications (e.g. VMware, Microsoft, Linux).
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Ideally, experience managing and operating via command line utilities and working to improve automation and enlist modern practises (e.g. managing VMWare with PowerCLI, DevOps, CI/CD, Ansible, Kubernetes etc.).
Candidate Profile
The successful candidate will bring a wide range of experience and skills and be able to combine them with a high attention to detail, enthusiasm, and curiosity.
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Organised and initiative-taking, able to communicate clearly, and willing to take ownership and accountability for their work in current and future platforms and processes.
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Keen to use intuition to perform deeper analysis of problems outside of initial skills and knowledge.
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Experience of working in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
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Confident and with proven ability to execute operations and changes within an ITIL environment.
Benefits
We demand the best from our people so it’s only right we reward them with the best benefits. That’s why we offer a competitive package, including: a generous bonus scheme, life assurance, private medical cover and 25-days holiday.