Senior Infrastructure Engineer

CLC Space is currently recruiting a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to provide consultancy support at their client’s headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Infrastructure Engineer shall provide consultancy to the Technical and Scientific Support Department within the Generic Systems and Infrastructure Division.

Your tasks will be carried out at the EUMETSAT facilities in Darmstadt, as required.

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The tasks will include:
• Taking charge and full responsibility of infrastructure projects assigned by the Technical Infrastructure Manager from the infrastructure project portfolio. These projects can be migrations and relocations of existing infrastructure, building new infrastructure for future programmes, additions and enhancements to existing infrastructure elements such as video and workstations, new builds and changes to power and cooling infrastructure, fiber and copper cabling, rack assembly. Project management activity also includes defining the demand for external resources and the management thereof when on site.
• Conducting communication of technical nature with contractors, suppliers and project stakeholders.
• Supporting the IM&E CA Manager in project scheduling.
• Supporting IM&E CA Manager in project related procurements by sourcing different materials and equipment and collecting price offers for these. This does not imply budget responsibility.
• Responsible for warehousing and logistics of consumable materials for operations
including the maintenance and application of a proper warehousing and material handling
procedure.
• Responsible for preparing obsolete material for disposal complete with appropriate
documentation
• Properly using the Infrastructure productivity tools such as iPatch for cable management,
the Schneider Electric StruxtureWare DCIM package.
• Preparing design documents (technical notes in EUMETSAT terminology) for complex
projects that are assigned to or initiated by the GSI/IM&E CA.
• Preparing design drawings using Visio for the projects mentioned above.
• Perform hands-on tasks such as server, workstation, communication and video equipment
installation for existing and new operational programmes and moving material out and
into the Infrastructure storage areas.
• Outside peak periods when external resources are not available the Infrastructure
Engineer is required to carry out additional hands on tasks such as rack assembly, patch
cable installation, assisting in power box installation.
The official languages are English and French. However, for this position, taking into account the need of relationships primarily with local companies, a good knowledge of written and spoken German is desirable.

YOUR PROFILE

You shall have a Bachelor degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or equivalent, an overall working experience of 10 to 15 including 8 to 10 years’ experience in the following specific areas:
• Familiarity with data center infrastructure elements: power, cooling, space management, racks, cabling and patching (copper and fiber).
• Familiarity with data center operations procedures: access, security, maintenance windows, mission critical processes, etc.
• Experience in coordinating simple projects (5-10 resources, project budget order of magnitude up to 20K EUR).
• Good communications skills with external and internal resources and stakeholders.
• Business acumen to identify financially viable and sustainable technical solutions.
• User experience related to some current ERP or workflow management system such as SAP, Oracle, Siebel or Remedy.
• Good knowledge of warehousing and material handling procedures as well as the knowledge of the disposal of electronic materials.
• Proficiency in work procedures related to server, workstation, communication equipment installation as well as rack assembly, electrical installations, cabling, patching and other maintenance activity around control and data centers.
• You must be a licensed electrician.
• Experience in a 24/7, mission critical environment.

The knowledge of a cabling management system and/or a DCIM system such as APC Struxtureware , Nlyte, ABB Decathlon, Emerson Trellis is a distinct advantage.

Location: 
Darmstadt, Germany
Start Date: 
Saturday, July 1, 2017
Application Deadline: 
Tuesday, May 2, 2017