- Company Name
- ECARIS
- Job Title
- Ingénieur Stockage et Réseaux - Freelance
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
Storage & Network Engineer – Freelance
**Role Summary**
Senior consultant responsible for designing, deploying, and optimizing a critical IT infrastructure upgrade across Europe for a leading water‑treatment industrial client. Focus areas include SD‑WAN scale‑up, partial Move2Cloud to Azure Fabric, full migration from VMware to Hyper‑V, domain rationalization, SSO implementation, network supervision, and enterprise backup. The role demands continuous availability of internal services and end‑to‑end solutions across networking, virtualization, storage, and monitoring domains.
**Expectations**
- Execute end‑to‑end migration projects and infrastructure deployments within defined timelines.
- Provide expertise in multi‑site network architecture, virtualized environments, and storage integration.
- Deliver robust solutions that adhere to security standards (ISO 27001, NIST).
- Produce comprehensive documentation and drive ITIL best‑practice processes.
**Key Responsibilities**
1. **Networking & Infrastructure**
- Configure and optimize Cisco Switches, Router‑level SD‑WAN, VLAN, vSwitch, and Distributed Switch.
- Deploy and manage network monitoring (PRTG) and firewall solutions (CheckPoint, others).
- Maintain LAN, WAN, SD‑WAN, DNS, DHCP, VPN, and perform proactive performance tuning.
2. **Systems, Virtualization & Storage**
- Lead VMware vSphere to Hyper‑V migration, managing datastore, VM lifecycle, and cluster health.
- Administer Microsoft On‑Prem environments (Windows Server 2019/2022, Windows 11).
- Configure and maintain NAS/SAN storage, ensuring seamless network‑storage integration.
- Implement and fine‑tune CommVault backup solutions.
3. **Supervision & Automation**
- Design PRTG probes, dashboards, and alerting for network and infrastructure health.
- Automate routine tasks and documentation via PowerShell scripts.
4. **Documentation & Methodology**
- Produce detailed technical architecture, operation procedures, and incident management plans.
- Apply ITIL frameworks for incident, request, and change management.
**Required Skills**
- **Networking**: LAN/WAN/SD‑WAN design, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, VLAN, routing, Cisco switching, firewalling, VPN, security hardening, ISO 27001/NIST compliance.
- **Virtualization**: VMware vSphere (vSwitch, D‑Switch, vSAN), Hyper‑V, VM migration, storage‑network interfacing.
- **Windows Server**: Administration of Windows Server 2019/2022, Windows 11.
- **Storage**: NAS/SAN management, datastore networking, performance analysis.
- **Backup**: CommVault deployment and optimization.
- **Monitoring**: PRTG administration; familiarity with Nagios/Prometheus/Elastic preferred.
- **Automation**: PowerShell scripting, documentation automation.
- **Methodology**: ITIL procedures, technical writing, architecture design.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
- Certifications: CCNA/CCNP, VCP, Microsoft Certified: MCSA/MCSA‑Windows Server, or equivalent VMware/Hyper‑V credentials are required.
*(All deliverables are expected to be globally applicable and IT‑system‑agnostic.)*