Job Description :
Senior Storage Architect

Pittsburgh, PA

6 - 12 months contract

Job Description:

· The Senior Storage Architect will serve as the Lead Storage Administrator in the design, implementation, and management of the storage environment.

· Extensive knowledge of SAN/NAS architecture is essential.

· Primary responsibilities will be to drive storage strategies and recommend industry best practices for storage solutions provide proactive storage forecasting, design and deploy effective storage solutions, research new and emerging technologies.

Qualifications:

B.S. in Electrical Engineering / Computer Engineering / Computer Science or associated experience.

Five to ten years of solid experience working in SAN/Storage/Backup Administration with three to five years as an architect

EMCSA certification required preferred.

In-depth knowledge of storage concepts and architecture, specifically within the EMC and Cisco hardware product line.

A strong understanding of data storage components and protocols along with solid knowledge of Fiber Channel architecture.

Comprehensive understanding of IT processes and best practices related to backup and recovery, and SAN technology.

The Architect will work in a team environment supporting an Enterprise SAN and NAS infrastructure; performing design, tiring, allocation, installation, configuration and maintenance.

Fast and independent learning capabilities

Good interpersonal skills

Well organized, self-motivated person, strong customer service, project, and analytical skills.

Experience working on the following environments:

EMC Symmetrix DMX3 series

EMC Control Center (ECC)

EMC CLARiiON CX & CX3 series

EMC Celerra (CIFS & NFS)

EMC Centera G3 & G4

CISCO MDS 9500 Directors

EMC StorageScope

EMC Performance Manager

EMC VisualSRM

SAN load balancing/multi-pathing software (PowerPath)

HBA configuration (Emulex and QLogic)

EMC Solutions Enabler (SYMCLI) commands

SYMCLI Configuration Manager and Celerra CLI commands

EMC TimeFinder Family (Mirror, Clone & Snap)

EMC Replication Manager

EMC DiskXtender

Windows 2000/2003 and/or Linux/AIX OS

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the ongoing maintenance, security, and availability of Storage and SAN infrastructure based on business requirements and adhering to tight operations, security, and procedural models

Responsible for complex provisioning, advanced maintenance, data replication, disaster recovery, data migration and documentation for our Open Systems Storage and Backup environments

Demonstrate a high level of technical expertise to support complex Storage & Backup devices, including SAN, NAS and Backup solutions across all tiers, under minimal supervision

Operate in complex, highly-secure, highly-available, operations-centric datacenter environments and interact with other technology domain experts as required, to build and maintain the Open Systems Storage and Backups solutions in those datacenter environments

This position requires a candidate with strong hands on technical Administrator professional with business acumen • Responsible for mentoring junior team members, developing ITIL procedures and best practices standards

Work with other Disciplines to develop Infrastructure Building Blocks based Reference Architectures and standards that can be offered as services to our customers • This position requires a dynamic, hard-working and ambitious individual, with excellent oral and written communication skills

Candidates will possess strong leadership and interpersonal skills and have experience working in large enterprise operational environments

Assist in change management processes

Improve the efficiency and help standardize current processes

Respond to and resolve incident and problem tickets

Document and thoroughly understand the application architecture, system configuration across platforms and interface with various systems and use this knowledge effectively to resolve issues

Work closely with customer support team to communicate the root cause of the outage, duration and recommendations or steps to resolve issues

Participate in Service Improvement Meetings after an application outage

Respond to general inquiries

Document the incident in the tracking tool

Vendor contact for routine, documented incidents as well as operational problems

Provide assistance as required in analyzing the trends and suggesting long-term and short-term improvements

Resolve incidents and problems in accordance within defined guidelines and meet operational level agreements

Implement change requests and meet project deliverables within defined guidelines

Achieve and understand Service Level commitments for all open systems platform

Position will require shift based work hours. Including, but not limited to, weekend and after hour shifts Qualifications
             

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