Data Center Engineer
Carlisle

Job Info

About Carlisle

At Carlisle Companies Incorporated, we are a diversified, global portfolio of niche brands and businesses. Our markets include commercial roofing, specialty polyurethane, architectural metal, aerospace, medical technologies, defense, transportation, industrial, protective coating, auto refinishing, agriculture, and construction. Our worldwide team of employees generated $4.8 billion in revenues in 2019. At Carlisle, we manufacture highly engineered products and solutions for our customers. We are driven by our strategic plan, Vision 2025, and are committed to generating superior shareholder returns while working with a culture of responsible stewardship and continuous improvement as embodied in the Carlisle Operating System. Are you ready to work with us?

Position Overview

The Data Center Engineer located in Kampen, Netherlands will provide direct support for Carlisle IT Global Data Centers (GDC).

This position is responsible for facilitating design for the Servers, Storage, Networking, and Security related to the GDC environments. Including backups, disaster recovery plans, and validation of such plans on a reoccurring basis. Support includes remotely connected offsite infrastructure directly tied to the GDC and its dependencies. System and Networking products to be supported at a minimum are Microsoft, Linux, VMware, Nutanix, Hyper-V, Pure Storage, EMC Storage, and Veeam.

The Data Center Engineer must work closely with the Sytems and Networking Teams and analyze the GDC components to support troubleshooting and proactively avoid outages and resource constraints

Key Functions and Responsibilities

* Work closely with Systems, Network, Service Delivery, Security Operations, and Applications teams to ensure the success of business objectives.
* Configuration and advanced troubleshooting for Physical and Virtual Network Segmentation within the GDC environments.
* Performance monitoring of resources running in the GDC environments.
* Server Automation, installation, setup, configuration, administration, and support.
* Design, Document, Oversee and Mitigate Backup and Disaster Recovery operations for all division systems running in the GDC Environments.
* Assist with licensing compliance and annual true-up activities.
* Maintain uptime for all services utilizing the network and systems in the GDC.
* Password rotations and deployment of patches to Core GDC components.
* Respond to remediation requests from Security Operations.
* Generate and maintain knowledge base articles and other technical support documentation.
* Assist team members in being adequately cross-trained.
* Follows direction and tasks assigned by Manager, and Data Center Architect.
* Follows change control procedures and approved designs.
* Works closely with the Data Center Architect to design and implement fault-tolerant, highly available, enterprise solutions for, but not limited to:

* Active Directory
* DNS
* DHCP
* NPS / Radius
* Application and Network Load Balancing

Skills and Abilities

* Use critical thinking skills to evaluate all viable solutions in the GDC while using appropriate judgment to apply effective resolutions.
* Adequately address and prioritize tasks based on urgent and highly sensitive client needs and manage appropriate/realistic expectations to ensure overall client satisfaction
* Work very closely with divisional applications owners to develop workload migration plans while minimizing risk.
* Contribute to network designs for new and existing clients within the GDC Environment for site establishments, site relocations, network expansions, and disaster recovery setups.
* Assists security on additional opportunities for operating a secure environment within the Global Data Centers.
* Effective with PowerShell and additional programming languages, for example, Python, for continuous improvements to the GDC Environments.

*Other duties may be assigned*

Qualifications

We require a minimum of four years of Systems experience and one year of Networking experience for this position.
Must include advanced Active Directory and VMware troubleshooting, preferably in environments containing 500+ hosts/VM's. The candidate will have experience with hyper-converged computing environments as well as experience with Dell VxRail. Experience with VMware VCF is preferred.

Other Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university (Information Technology, Information Systems) preferred.
* Experience supporting large data center environments (>500 servers) with complex AD topology
* Ability and desire to perform root cause analysis.
* The understanding of fundamental routed protocols and the ability to troubleshoot network connectivity problems on systems.
* Certifications preferred (e.g., VMware VCP, CSEP, MCSE, CCNA)
* A great teammate that can relate to people at all levels of the organization and possesses excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Work outside of regular business hours to support Carlisle's GDC Environments.
* Enthusiastic, forward-thinking, and creative individual with high ethical standards and a positive professional image.
* Ability to be flexible and able to function comfortably in a fast-paced environment.
* Ability to read, analyze and interpret technical periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
* Ability to define problems, collect data, establishes facts, and draw valid conclusions.
* Knowledge of O365, SAP (and other ERP systems), manufacturing processes and procedures, and the ability to share this knowledge with others is desired.
* Ability to travel (up to 20%) and work remotely, without direct supervision.

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