About the client
Our client, Schaeffler, is a dynamic global technology company and its success has been a result of its entrepreneurial spirit and long history of private ownership. Does that sound interesting to you? As a partner to all of the major automobile manufacturers, as well as key players in the aerospace and industrial sectors, they offer you many development opportunities.
Your Key Responsibilities
IT Consulting:
- Global capacity forecast including amount of planned / unplanned provisioning and requests;
- Calculate technical requirements for new systems or expansions;
- Consulting of internal customers and solution definition based on product and service portfolio;
- Create and process sizing requests (GTS Procurement) for lifecycles and/or expansions;
- Support Demand Management Process for global services and products;
- Participate in relevant projects regarding services and products.
IT Testing:
- Analyze and test new technologies as input for IT System Architecture.
IT Change Mgmt.:
- Plan and implement firmware updates (create the support matrix, coordinate actions of local administrators, GTS infrastructure teams and vendors);
- Participate in design of global strategies, concepts, processes and service improvements based on operational experiences.
IT Asset & Configuration Mgmt:
- Ensure quality of global asset, configuration and inventory information.
IT Operations:
- Day-by-day operating of IT systems;
- Ensure and continuously improve reliability and availability of IT-Systems for the Schaeffler Group;
- Monitor, analyze and resolve performance issues;
- Install and configure IT systems, software, firmware, etc.;
- Document administrative tasks;
- Reporting of service quality, availability, reliability, compliance and security;
- Health Monitoring of IT Systems to proactively avoid errors;
- Check and ensure compliance of IT systems according to the Schaeffler standards;
- Create reports with MS Reporting Services;
- Reporting of all relevant activities and tasks.
IT Incident & Problem Mgmt:
- Incident and problem handling within the Global Team and the local administrators;
- 2nd & 3rd Level support together with local administrators in case of errors;
- Coordinate troubleshooting processes internally and with vendors (Support Calls and Escalation).
IT User Training:
- Create, update, communicate global service and product documentations.
Your Qualifications
- Education: Fluent English skills (verbal and written), intercultural knowledge, good communication skills verbal and written;
- Experience: Operational administration experience, Project coordination experiences;
- Special skills: Coordination of troubleshooting processes for complex problems in collaboration with different external vendors and internal interfaces, open-minded, targeted, business thinking, customer-focused, team-player;
- Product / Vendor Skills: Deep knowledge of Dell (e.g. Dell PowerEdge) and HP (e.g. HP ProLiant) server components, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Nokia VitalQIP.