Storage Engineer : Santa Clara, CA – 4 days/week onsite, 1 day remote

·         Top 3 must-have hard skills

1

Dell PowerMax

2

NetApp and PURE, storage systems

3

Cisco MDS backbone switches

Role:

Storage Engineer

Employment Type: Fulltime/Contract          

Contract 9 months + Possibility of extension

Work location: Remote/Onsite (mention no. of Onsite days)

Onsite – Santa Clara, CA – 4 days/week onsite, 1 day remote

About the Role

looking for a Senior level SAN/Storage engineer responsible for storage infrastructure who has experience in the plan, design, configuring, optimizing, and supporting large and diverse enterprise storage systems. Including creating dashboard, reporting and capacity planning.

Job Responsibilities

·    Evaluate, design, implement, and deploy SAN, NAS & DAS hardware and software, to include Dell PowerMax, Unity, PURE, Cisco and Brocade fabric architectures in tiered multi-protocol storage models.

·    Create designs and documentation of backup/restore strategies.

·    Provide support for all Equinix Storage Infrastructure (to include installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, and monitoring).

·    Designing and implementing storage for one or more enterprise services such as, MS SQL, Active Directory, Windows Server, Oracle, Linux, Fileshare, BLOB file repos.

·    Managing storage in a On-Prem VMware, Cloud VMware (VMC-A), containers, and Equinix Metal virtualization environment.

·    Managing and providing near real time storage usage statistics, storage management and capacity management and providing future projected growth estimates.

·    Following Enterprise Architecture Procedures.

·    Recommending, implementing, and deliver technology solutions based on analysis and business requirements aligned with IT Strategy.

·    Managing storage provisioning process and documentation (including, but not limited to, Windows, Linux, and virtualized servers).

·    Managing fiber channel network; must be well versed in fiber channel, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS.

·    Monitoring, report and correct storage performance issues.

·    Responsible for capacity planning and performance analysis.

·    Aiding cross-functionally in support of Windows, Linux, and ESXi disk performance troubleshooting and optimization.

·    Partner with vendors to review new technology offering and troubleshoot problems as needed.

Required Skills

·    10 year’s of experience in the plan, design, configuring, optimizing and supporting large and diverse enterprise storage systems. Including creating dashboard, reporting and capacity planning.

·    7+ year’s of hands-on experience Designing, Configuring and Supporting Dell PowerMax and Unity storage systems.

·    7+ year’s of hands-on experience Designing, Configuring and Supporting NetApp and PURE, storage systems.

·    7+ year’s of hands-on experience Designing, Configuring and Supporting Cisco and Brocade SAN Fabric systems.

·    7+ years hands-on experience with enterprise hierarchical storage system management

·    5+ years of knowledge and support of storage systems in a VMware ESX environment, others hypervisors is a plus.

·    4+ years hands-on experience with Cisco MDS backbone switches.

·    Strong understanding of Oracle Linux, Windows, Ununtu operating systems and how they relate to storage infrastructure.

·    Knowledge and experience with current compute/ network/ storage modeling.

·    Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Required Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

Required Experience

Minimum 10 plus years of experience in large and diverse enterprise storage systems.