Datacentre Engineer in Cardiff

6 months initially - Cardiff - £22p/h 12 hour shift patterns (various shift patterns available to suit). We are looking for someone who can help with batch processing and job scheduling for a Datacentre in Cardiff. If you have experience of a job scheduling tool, particularly Control‑M, we would love to hear from you. We are also looking for a candidate capable of systems monitoring and management, observing monitoring consoles and event‑driven alerts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinating with vendors when support calls are raised for assistance (e.g. BT)
• Calling on on‑call expert staff to respond to out‑of‑hours incidents (e.g. DBA team, Network team)
• Taking first line corrective action for agreed and documented administrative systems (e.g. re‑sending faxes which have failed delivery)
• Running & monitoring traditional batch schedules, including using automated tools such as Control‑M, Visualcron, etc.
• Managing jobs/scripts to release development changes into production

Other Physical Duties:

• Daily removal of tapes and boxing up for off‑siting
• Activities in the datacentre on power‑down weekends in support of engineers
• Test access to systems to prove availability (e.g. logon to an application)
• Conduct physical patrols to ensure datacentre temperature etc. (in addition to watching automatic building management alert systems)
• All other ad hoc activities reasonably required or expected to ensure smooth operation of the batch processing and datacentre operations as requested under the supervision of an Operations Coordinator
• Ensure security and access procedures are followed, this includes maintenance of related logs and records

If this sounds like you, please apply now for more details!