Data Centre Services Specialist

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Your day at NTT DATA
The Data Centre Services Specialist designs, implements and supports enterprise data centre infrastructure for clients. The role combines hands-on expertise in virtualisation, storage, backup and disaster recovery with customer engagement, complex troubleshooting and technical leadership.

Key responsibilities:

• Design, deploy and support virtualisation, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), compute, storage, backup and disaster recovery solutions.
• Lead data centre transformation, infrastructure migrations and upgrades, minimising disruption to customer operations.
• Configure and troubleshoot Nutanix, VMware, Dell Technologies, NetApp and enterprise backup platforms.
• Assess infrastructure health, performance and capacity, and recommend improvements.
• Investigate complex incidents across compute, storage, SAN, virtualisation and backup environments, coordinating vendor escalations where needed.
• Develop high-level and low-level designs, migration and rollback plans, as-built documentation and operational runbooks.
• Validate backups, test recovery procedures and support business continuity and disaster recovery exercises.
• Lead technical discussions and knowledge-transfer sessions, mentor junior engineers and act as an escalation point for assigned technologies.

To thrive in this role, you need to have:

• Strong hands-on knowledge of Nutanix HCI and VMware vSphere, including cluster management, high availability, vSAN and disaster recovery.
• Experience with Dell server and storage platforms, NetApp ONTAP, and SAN technologies such as Cisco MDS or Brocade.
• Experience designing and supporting backup and recovery solutions using platforms such as Veritas NetBackup, Dell PowerProtect, Veeam, Rubrik or Commvault.
• A sound understanding of infrastructure sizing, performance optimisation, replication, data protection and hybrid cloud integration.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, customer engagement and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to guide junior engineers.

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• Preferred: Relevant certifications in Nutanix, VMware, Dell Technologies, NetApp, enterprise backup or SAN technologies. Azure or AWS certifications are advantageous.

Required experience:

• 7–12 years of experience in enterprise infrastructure, virtualisation, storage and backup environments.
• At least five years of hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, Dell Technologies infrastructure, enterprise storage and backup solutions.
• Three to five years of experience with Nutanix HCI.
• Proven delivery of data centre transformation, virtualisation, storage or backup migration projects in mission-critical environments.
• Experience troubleshooting compute, storage, SAN, backup, replication and disaster recovery issues.
• Customer-facing project delivery experience, including technical workshops, solution documentation and implementation planning. Systems integrator or professional services experience is preferred.

Workplace type:

Hybrid Working

About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune

Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through

responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with

unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and

application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move

confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more

than 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as

established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each

year in R&D.

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