Emphasys IT
Senior Novell NetWare 6.5 Recovery Engineer
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Company Description
Emphasys IT is a professional services firm that delivers cutting-edge IT solutions to help businesses thrive in the digital era. The company focuses on innovation, technical excellence, and client satisfaction, offering services that enhance efficiency, scalability, and growth. Its multidisciplinary team brings expertise in data and AI, cloud computing, cybersecurity, software development, infrastructure management, and data analytics. Emphasys IT follows a client-centric approach, creating tailored strategies that align technology solutions with each organization’s goals. Through strong partnerships with leading technology providers and a commitment to staying ahead of industry trends, the company has built a reputation for successfully delivering complex projects across sectors such as finance, healthcare, and manufacturing.
Location: Remote, with occasional travel to London data centres if required
Contract: Initial 1-month engagement, with potential follow-on project
Start date: Immediate
Engagement: Contract / Outside IR35
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Novell NetWare 6.5 Engineer to support the urgent recovery and stabilisation of a business-critical legacy environment. The environment consists of three interconnected NetWare servers. The primary production server has failed following a RAID 5 failure, and the remaining servers are currently unable to operate normally while attempting to locate the failed node. The NetWare environment also provides a SOAP-based authentication service to Windows Server 2003 systems supporting external client portals. The successful engineer will therefore need to assess and restore both the core NetWare environment and any impacted authentication services.
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Key Responsibilities
- Assess and stabilise the remaining NetWare 6.5 servers.
- Diagnose the RAID 5 failure and determine the safest recovery approach.
- Recover or rebuild the failed production server.
- Troubleshoot eDirectory/NDS replication, synchronisation and server communication.
- Restore NetWare services, NSS volumes, data and permissions.
- Assess and restore the SOAP-based authentication service.
- Validate connectivity between NetWare, Windows Server 2003 and the external client portals.
- Test authentication and portal access following recovery.
- Document all recovery activity, risks and recommendations.
- Provide options for a future upgrade, migration or virtualisation project.
Essential Experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Novell NetWare 6.5.
- eDirectory/NDS troubleshooting and recovery.
- Experience recovering failed NetWare production environments.
- RAID 5, physical server and storage recovery.
- NetWare server rebuilds, NSS volumes and trustee permissions.
- SOAP web services and legacy authentication integrations.
- Windows Server 2003 administration and troubleshooting.
- Experience working on business-critical legacy infrastructure.
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Desirable Experience
- NetWare Cluster Services or multi-server NetWare environments.
- DSRepair and eDirectory replica recovery.
- Legacy system virtualisation.
- Migration from NetWare and Windows Server 2003 to supported platforms.
- Experience supporting externally facing client portals.
Candidate Profile
This role will suit a senior engineer or consultant who can work independently, take a cautious and evidence-led approach to recovery, and communicate technical risks clearly. The majority of the work can be completed remotely, although occasional travel to London data centres may be required to inspect or recover physical infrastructure. Following successful stabilisation, there may be an opportunity to support a wider upgrade, migration or virtualisation programme.
To apply, please provide a summary of your NetWare 6.5 experience and examples of similar recovery or migration assignments.
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