Storage Design Engineer (SAN)

Company: Vantage Point Consulting, Inc.
Location: Alpharetta
Posted on: October 14, 2020

Job Description:

Location- Remote initially then on-site in either Clinton, NJ or Alpharetta, GA offic Job Summary / Description: Enterprise storage engineering role contributes to the team in designing, engineering, documenting, and supporting the implementation of new technologies in the storage domain for CLIENT Enterprise Computing Services. Applicant should be well-versed in a wide range of storage, networking and compute technologies. Job Requirements: 1- Technical Skills Requirements a. Dell EMC PMAX/VMAX - Experience with PowerMax and/or VMAX All Flas arrays. SRP management; Working knowledge of replicated and non-replicated provisioning. Performance monitoring and troubleshooting. Capacity management in a virtualized thin environment. Working knowledge of Unisphere, HyperMax OS, SRDF/A with global consistency groups, TimeFinder Clones, SnapVX, thin provisioning and data reduction technologies. b. Brocade SAN - Experience with director-class storage area networking utilizing fiber channel protocol. Experience with FC zoning, aliases, performance tuning, error detection and resolution. X6 sixth generation, 32G director environment experience desirable. FC-NVMe experience a plus. c. NetApp AFF/FAS -Experience implementing and supporting All Flash F and Fabric-Attached Storage hardware; Deep knowledge of the ONTAP 9 operating environment; Fiber channel block environment experience preferred; Cluster management and OS upgrade testing; Storage management and provisioning; Performance tuning and optimization; SnapMirror asynchronous replication, OnCommand System Manger, Unified Manager and Insight (OCI) experience helpful. 2- Technical Skills Desirable a. Hybrid cloud storage experience; Data mobility/tiering between on- premise services and AWS and/or Azure. b. Storage load generation/evaluation in a lab environment, light scrip (Perl, PowerShell, Python, KSH). 3- Soft Skills/Organizational a. Work with Architecture, Implementation and Operations to develop engineering designs to facilitate projects through the full SDLC lifecycle (initiate, define, design, build, run). b. Facilitate reporting on capacity, availability and performance management metrics to ensure a stable and supportable storage environment. c. Provide Level 3 Engineering support for Level 2 Operations team. Experience: * Five years of experience building and supporting enterprise storage solutions including Dell EMC VMAX, PMAX, NetApp ONTAP and Brocade fiber channel SAN technologies. * Provide technical direction to team and service providers. Excellent understanding of current storage technology trends across all managed computing platforms (AIX, Solaris, Linux, Windows, VMware, etc.). Experience with disaster recovery techniques including asynchronous replication, fail-over and failback processes. * Technical expertise across various disciplines to resolve complex infrastructure integration issues/problems and interface with multiple vendors to coordinate resolution to both hardware and software problems; Full project/product life cycle management experience; ability to handle large, complex projects and support Priority 1 incidents. Education: Bachelor s degree or seven years of equivalent work experience. Thanks and Regards Sam Perry VPC Staffing Phone: Email: Show moreShow less

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