IT Infrastructure Technician (virtualization)

Position Description

The IT Infrastructure technician’s activity consists in supporting, testing and monitoring the virtualized IT infrastructure of ELI-NP. The primary focus area consists of the hypervisor layer (MS HyperV) and of the associated components, services and/or applications. As a secondary activity, the IT Infrastructure technician will be involved in providing technical support for the enterprise Microsoft-based server-side services. Furthermore, the IT Infrastructure technician will provide specialist support for the preparation and/or review of the technical documentation for IT equipment purchases within the ELI-NP IT group.

Main tasks

• Providing technical support for the virtualization platform (HyperV) and for related hardware/software elements, thereby ensuring their optimal, highly-available functioning.
• Taking an active part in the operation and maintenance of the ELI-NP IT infrastructure;
• Perform basic daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all underlying resources, systems and key processes.
• Be involved in providing technical support for the infrastructure services (primarily virtualization and compute) offered by the ELI-NP IT group;

Requirements for filling the position

• High school graduate with baccalaureate diploma;
• Practical experience in and knowledge of the main tasks as described in the job profile above;
• Minimum 3 years overall IT experience with 2 years of experience working in and with highly-virtualized environments.
• Solid general understanding of IT.
• Experience with Microsoft Windows Server and its components/technologies. Familiarity with other non-virtualization-specific server-side infrastructure elements/roles from the Microsoft stack is considered a plus.
• Experience with automation (e.g. PowerShell scripting) and/or monitoring (e.g. SCOM) tools represents a big plus.
• Entry-level vendor certifications that apply to the aforementioned technologies and/or products are considered a plus.
• Familiarity with working in an environment that follows industry best practices, both networking- and security-oriented, is considered a plus.
• Good interpersonal skills, a strong team spirit and a result-oriented attitude, as well as a capability to deliver when working under tight deadlines.
• Ability to establish new standards for quality, performance or productivity
• Fluent in English;

Conditions of employment

• Full time position, based in Bucharest - Măgurele, Romania, for one year with the possibility of extension;
• Member of an ambitious, dynamic and result-oriented team operating in a friendly international working environment;
• Rare opportunity to further your career in a modern IT environment that supports a world-leading scientific project;
• Chance to take on IT challenges that go beyond the 'usual' office/enterprise environment by crossing into high performance / high throughput computing;
• Motivating package (salary, trainings, etc.) according to your qualifications and (practical) experience.

Applications

• Applications shall be accompanied by the documents requested in the Rules of Selection for this position.
• Applications shall be sent to the Human Resources Department at human.resources@eli-np.ro.