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Senior Storage Engineer Senior Job Description
- Maintain & install patch and revision upgrades on all local storage and switch systems
- Technical degree , BS Computer Science/Management Information Systems/Science/ Engineering/Math/Physics/Chemistry
- Using independent judgment, research, evaluate, install, configure, test, and maintain innovative storage-related computing hardware and software systems, coordinating with vendors as applicable
- Design, develop and test new features and improvements to existing features within theSteelFusion authoritative storage cache and intelligent prefetch systems
- Lead efforts to research, evaluate, install, configure, test, and maintain innovative storage-related computing hardware and software systems, coordinating with vendors as applicable
- Provide technical leadership, influence and partner with fellow engineers to architect, design and build mission critical storage systems that can stand the test of scale and availability, while reducing operational overhead
- Debug and verify defect fixes
- Architect and Manage enterprise backup environment across data centers
- Will be required to participate in rotating 24x7 on call duties off-hour planned activities
- Specialize in configuration, management, and maintenance of the Converged Infrastructure physical and virtual storage infrastructure
- Must have 5-7+ years outside technical presales experience AND 2-3+ years of experience focused on Data Management / Data Tiering networked storage solutions and/or complex enterprise solutions
- Experience in automation/orchestration (storage, server, network, ) is highly desirable
- Detailed knowledge of Unisphere (VMAX, VNX), path management (PowerPath, native MPIO, ), snapshot, clone, storage tiering and thin provisioning
- Possess a strong understanding of IT Service Management processes, ITIL certification a plus
- Stays current with the latest server infrastructure and storage technologies
- Ability to analyze, propose and implement workflow and process improvements
Senior Storage Engineer Senior Job Description
- Providing internal assistance on the EMC and/or NetApp storage product direction
- Understanding client's infrastructures, their needs and provide expertise and consulting on storage and VMware solutions
- Act as technical lead for new initiatives and deployments
- Configure, manage, and maintain physical and virtual Vblock storage infrastructures
- Cross train team members on Converged Infrastructure storage technology
- Architect appropriate storage platforms supporting network and server equipment needs for deployment
- Troubleshoots system errors and problems, documents and recommends solutions to improve the operating environment
- Oversee management of the SaaS production environment
- Recommend changes to architecture for operational optimization
- Maintain documentation for all infrastructure
- College degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience is required
- Candidate must have 10 years of experience in storage system administration
- Ability to work autonomously with application/workflow teams server and networking staff to create equipment lists and design documents for end-to-end host/storage environments, based on content type, access requirements, infrastructure and budget
- Experience with implementation and administration of Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) equipment required
- Experience with technologies such as Object-Based Storage, Cloud Storage Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud a plus
- The candidate must have excellent communications skills in order to be successful
Senior Storage Engineer Senior Job Description
- Develop and maintain Java and Python components responsible for storage management
- Learn to work with the oVirt upstream community to be able to respond to bugs and development needs
- Use your Java and Python programming skills to develop new features and patches
- Fluent written and spoken English required with secondary languages a plus (Spanish, French, German etc)
- Inform consultants and operations staff of system events (new features, failures, patches) and the impact of these on the user community
- Write clean, well-documented,maintainable shipping code and unit tests
- Communicate clearly with peers and management about ideas, designs, and implementation details, through design and code documentation, and team discussion
- Work closely with fellow engineers to arrive at consensus-based approaches to problems
- Work with QA to explain new features and assist in test-plan development
- Work with Support on the rare occasion that a customer issue or bug requiresEngineering assistance
- Position requires after hours support and travel between data center locations
- Working knowledge of how to physically and virtually install and configure various SAN models
- Intermediate working knowledge of how VMWare, SQL 2008 and 2012, Oracle, Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2008, and 2012 work with the OS layer
- SNCP certification, knowledge of ITIL/MOF practices
- Brocade Switches including firmware and performance tuning
- 5 years of experience working in an Enterprise Storage environment
Senior Storage Engineer Senior Job Description
- Modeling, measuring, and optimizing storage cluster performance
- Drive methodology and practice around measuring, evaluating, and delivering performance
- Help improve the quality, performance, and resiliency of our product
- In collaboration with the team, define goals and acceptance criteria
- Participate as needed along with the team to deliver enterprise-ready products
- Prepare and deliver conference presentations on technical topics
- Responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of enterprise wide storage related infrastructure both production and disaster recovery
- Ensure backups of server and vSphere environments are correctly configured and perform successfully each day
- Plan and perform system upgrades and patch management for enterprise storage arrays
- Responsible for shared 24x7 coverage of the storage infrastructure support
- Automation of Linux server deployment (Kickstart, Cobbler, FAI)
- Advanced scripting skillsets are required
- In-depth technical expertise using Veritas NetBackup
- Must be willing to work outside of normal business hours to complete implementations and resolve issues
- Knowledge of AWS product offerings desired
- Working knowledge of many of various vendor storage management applications such as NetApp NOM and OCI desired
Senior Storage Engineer Senior Job Description
- Design and deploy storage systems and enhancements to existing systems and software
- Collaborate with other staff members to ensure smooth and reliable operation of storage, software, and systems for fulfilling business objectives and processes
- Guide and architect future storage technologies
- Provide Level 3 server, storage, and backup support Incident response and escalation for three data centers branch offices
- Resolving 3rd line storage related incident support calls
- Evaluating storage performance issues and storage requests
- Design/build/deploy storage solutions/resources
- Proactively monitoring the storage service environments
- Provide engineering support for storage infrastructure
- Establish and recommend policies on system use and services
- Networking (DNS, IPsec, BGP, VPN, Load Balancing) desired
- Databases (MySQL, Oracle, MSSQL) desired
- Programming / scripting (Java, Perl, Ruby, C#, and/or PHP) desired
- Knowledge of DISA STIGS mission systems desired
- Knowledge of ICD 503 and the Risk Management Framework desired
- Experience with the DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) desired