Senior IT Engineer Compute Storage and Backup | Regio: Zuid-Limburg

Within the department of Compute Storage and Backup, the IT Engineer CSB IV acts as a part of an international team with people from all continents, working out of the offices or our client, located in Zuid Limburg, the Netherlands cooperating with suppliers worldwide. Within this environment the IT Engineer CSB IV takes responsible for the Compute, storage and backup in all regions, EMEA, NAFTA, APAC and in the future possibly China. The main goal of the IT Engineer CSB IV within the Compute, Storage and Backup department is to keep systems healthy pro-actively and take the appropriate actions to renew, upgrade and keep the overall structure in line with the latest developments.

Summary of the Job:

Within the department of Compute Storage and Backup, the IT Engineer CSB IV acts as a part of an international team with people from all continents, working out of the offices or our client, located in Zuid Limburg, the Netherlands cooperating with suppliers worldwide. Within this environment the IT Engineer CSB IV takes responsible for the Compute, storage and backup in all regions, EMEA, NAFTA, APAC and in the future possibly China. The main goal of the IT Engineer CSB IV within the Compute, Storage and Backup department is to keep systems healthy pro-actively and take the appropriate actions to renew, upgrade and keep the overall structure in line with the latest developments.

1. External: Entities that use CDC processes and applications for Customer Service and Service 24h, in particular Compass@Dealer and M4T. Specifically these entities consist of MPC partners, C@D Users from the retail organization and technicians in the field

2. External: Entities that use processes and applications of our client for Sales Funnel Management (SFM) and Trucks MB uptime.

3. External: call centers others than our client call centers that make use of the CDC applications.

4. Internal: CAC and satellite employees that make use of CDC applications

5. Internal: Project related work, i.e. (bulk) data changes/activation, creating documentation, answer project related questions, etc.

The IT Engineer CSB IV leads the sub team in taking appropriate actions and plans that enable fast solving of incidents and enquiries. In addition to this the IT Engineer CSB III will take a project member role in CSB projects, be it in the CWW Roll out or in one of the internal upgrade/migration projects. The main goal of the IT Engineer CSB III is to ensure the integrity of the CDC infrastructure domain. The IT Engineer CSB III is responsible for resolving incidents and enquiries and performing adequate maintenance tasks to prevent incidents to happen.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

  • Operate and maintain three regional redundant datacenters covering US, EMEA and APAC

  • Ensuring continues improvements in all aspects of life-cycle management

  • Investigating and resolving 2nd and 3rd level incidents; activities in the area of incident, problem, change and configuration management

  • Establishment of reporting and dashboards for real time and historical analyses

  • Supporting users in more than 50 countries around the globe and around the clock (>1.500 end users) running approximately 2000 windows servers [VM]

  • Supporting the Lead Service Architects in defining new solutions design

  • Providing project support for expansion of our Contact center (capacity and expansion requirements for new countries)

  • Maintain and establish vendor relationships with service providers and IT integrators

  • Annual execution and reporting of disaster recovery concepts

Requirements:

  • Microsoft MCSA and MCSE certified or equivalent knowledge

  • Experience with running and organizing IT Service operations

  • Minimal 5 years practical experience with compute and services:

  • DELL EMC Storage system

  • VM ware

  • SCOM

  • CISCO UCS

  • Windows Server 2008/2016

  • Microsoft applications such as Active Directory, Exchange, SQL

  • Experience with datacenter technologies:

  • VM-ware / V-Realize automation and operation

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English (second European language is a plus);

You need to be:

  • Able to translate the customer issues into IT solutions

  • Customer oriented

  • A great team mate

  • Stress resilient

  • Analytical, being able to think in solutions

  • Vocational or Bachelor degree or relevant work experience

  • Willing to participate in on-call/on-duty shift

  • someone who sees challenges where other people see problems

  • Self-managerial and willing to go for the extra mile.