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Senior Storage Systems Engineer
4 years ago
Job Description Provide engineering and support of enterprise level systems, storage, and backup solutions. Responsibilities include providing technical support and design for enterprise backup solutions and enterprise systems and storage solutions. Act as lead for storage automation projects. Also includes resolving backup and storage related problems by gathering diagnostic information for submission to vendor support team, applying and testing fixes, and performing corrective maintenance; supporting software and hardware upgrades, and performing daily storage and backup related tasks such as storage provisioning and adding new systems to storage and backup solutions. Ability to work with system administrators and network.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
-Manage storage focused trouble tickets end-to-end
-General management of EMC Isilon storage environment
-Act as lead for storage automation projects
-NFS/SMB troubleshooting and resolution. Responsible for resolving storage issues
-Co-ordinate and manage migrations/cutovers aligning to ITIL and client requirements
-Document and provide best practices on maintenance, configuration and internal processes
Experience
- Overall storage administration experience of 5+ years
- Strong hands on experience with EMC Isilon administration
- Strong hands on experience in storage automation (Perl, Python, REST API)
- Exposure and some experience on other storage technologies e.g. Rubrik, Nimble will be a plus.
- Exposure to build and manage storage systems.
- Experience in data center migrations and consolidations for storage and backup technology
- Experience in installation/upgrade for EMC Isilon clusters
- Basic understanding of network technologies and architecture
- Basic understanding of UNIX and Windows administration
- Basic understanding of backup technologies
- Automation using Shell scripting (shell/PERL/python)
- Experience in a large, geographically dispersed environment
- Experience in monitoring (h/w and OS) solutions for storage systems
- Experience in solution design / configuration/solutions evaluation/ Validation and deployment
- Exposure to ITIL processes (incident, problem, change) and working in a process environment is a must
- Ability to work with minimal direction or contribute in a team environment
- Excellent verbal, written communications and interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent Planning and Co-ordination skills
- EMC InsightIQ, SyncIQ experience
Additional Information- All your information will be kept confidential according to Equal Employment Opportunities guidelines.