At DarkMatter, we are building an organisation of specialists to provide the ultimate integrated cyber security protection available. Whatever the scope, scale or sensitivity of our clients' work, we'll assess their risks, resolve their vulnerabilities and always keep them ahead of the threat, offering them the best possible products and solutions.

In this role, you will:

- Support of RHEL Linux, vSphere, EMC Unity, Data Domain, Avamar and DPS storage and backup deployments
- Storage administration in a VMware virtual environment; provision of storage pools, storage monitoring, capacity monitoring and uplift
- Senior level operations support and engineering services for enterprise-level data protection solutions
- Storage optimization by analysis of long term trends for Data Protection environments with de-duplication capabilities
- Monitors and manages backup solutions; esures backup integrity with regular testing
- Oversees operational readiness of all Backup servers and target storage devices
- Assists with operation to include: Virtual Machines (VM's), Databases, storage pools, client's data, user management, and OS management pertinent to Data Protection
- Ensures operational documentation meets completeness and quality thresholds.
- Leads on all data recovery activity from files to entire server storage pools
- Follows ITIL processes
- Administers virtualization (VMware) products and associated domain hardware in Red Hat server environments
- Plan, optimize, automate and execute routine administration and patching of Linux environments.
- Create and maintain as well as application installation automation using various scripting languages (PowerShell, VbScript, batch, Paython, Bash, Perl etc.)
- Provide direction and day-to-day support for the systems infrastructure VMware vSphere and RHEL in a large scale enterprise environment
- Ensure effective security, operation and peak performance of OS and virtualization management environments.
- Assist with providing administration, troubleshooting, configuration, installation, deployment, maintenance, upgrades, and high availability projects.
- Leverage virtualization and scripting technologies to automate/orchestrate overall system creation, management, and deployment across the infrastructure.
- Develop scripts & queries to validate functionality and security of all systems and performance metrics
- Analyzes metrics to identify optimization opportunities and utilization/capacity trends
- Assist with hardware maintenance and lifecycle planning.
- Trains and mentors less senior colleagues as required