Systems Storage Engineer

STORAGE ENGINEER NAS OR SAN DALLAS, TX CONTRACT OPPORTUNITY

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This role is engaged to manage and automate infrastructure solutions that take advantage of Storage Technologies. These skilled resources are also engaged to install and configure Storage infrastructure management tools.

TYPICAL DELIVERY ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:

- Storage and data management software implementation and configuration
- Hardware, Software and firmware Updates
- Management tools implementations, configuration and upgrades
- Storage management using customer Storage Management tools
- Configuration and modelling of Storage Efficiency
- Preventive maintenance working in conjunction with the support team, identifying risks, prioritizing and taking action to mitigate potential issues
- Hardware, Software and Firmware Updates
- Coordination of service efforts at the customer site
- Ability to define and document change control processes and execute in a highly regulated environment
- Test planning and execution
- Participation in regularly scheduled reviews with customer
- Updating of customer Storage Operations Documentation
- Storage availability, performance and utilization auditing and reporting
- Performance tuning recommendations

REQUIREMENTS:

- EMC knowledge (Isilon is important)
- Windows: good knowledge of NT, Win2K, Win2K3
- Understanding of share and NTFS security concepts
- VMware: good knowledge of ESX/VMware
- Unix: good knowledge of Berkeley, Linux, and/or System V Unix system administration concepts including disk and network administration, NFS and NIS/NIS+ administration
- Networking: knowledge of Ethernet, IP, DNS and NIS associated daemons; knowledge of network architectures including hubs, repeaters, bridges, Routers, and Switches
- Storage: knowledge of storage administration and the concepts of file systems, disk partitions, mounts, quotas, mirroring and sizing
- Expert knowledge of NAS, DAS, SAN (fabric attached architectures)
- Expert with storage sizing, performance and high availability
- Expert knowledge of Backup/Data Protection technologies
- Deep experience with the internals of Storage OS fundamentals
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills are essential to impact senior and executive level technical teams, architects, systems administrators, and senior managers
- Ability to work collaboratively with other engineers and senior managers in a team environment in which to share best practices, meet aggressive goals, and meet high quality standards
- Ability to define and drive practices in the technical team and across the organization
- Ability to act as technical expert when working with customers senior technical representatives, including influencing customers requirements
- Ability to understand the customers business requirements and relate their requirements to technical solutions

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