Senior EMC Storage Engineer

Phone/skype Hire

 

Location: Columbia, SC

Duration: 12+ months

Rate: Open

 

Key Areas of Responsibility

·         Design, implement, administer and support storage solutions.

·         Provide direct technical support for the planning, coordination, and implementation of releases, upgrades, or changes to storage systems and the range of products and productivity tools that support the testing and production of those storage systems.

·         Ensures stable performance for the storage environment through performance monitoring and tuning.

·         Perform capacity planning, workload modeling, and prediction. Ensures systems maintenance of storage and related systems.

·         Follow life-cycle oriented processes and procedures

·         Troubleshoot, maintain, upgrade, and provide solutions to complex hardware/software problems

·         Assist in the management of projects using project management methodology

·         Regularly interface with technical and business staff of customers, including the project sponsor and stakeholders of projects in more complex engagements

·         Create and execute test plans to meet project requirements for assigned components

·         Provide high quality content deliverables using the appropriate documentation

·         Proactively develops plans and activities to avoid problems

 

Skills Needed:

·         Bachelor degree in business, computer science, a related technical degree or equivalent

·         Seven years’ experience delivering complex technical solutions including planning, development, implementation and support.

·         Knowledge of general storage technologies: SAN, NAS, DAS, FC;

·         Solid understanding of networking and distributed computing concepts, including principles of network-routing client/server applications

·         Knowledge of Distributed File Systems (DFS) beneficial

·         OS software: Proficiency in Linux and/or Intel operating system and Windows 2003 required. AIX and Windows certifications a plus

·         Experience implementing VNX solutions

·         Must have experience with a minimum of two of the following: VMWare vCenter/vSphere, Data Domain, Avamar, VMAX, EMC Unisphere

·         SAN: Experience with Cisco based SAN fabrics required

·         Knowledge of EMC disk subsystems required

·         Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs

·         Ability to assist with network and application troubleshooting; provide technical consulting support to software development staff

·         Ability to work weekends and/or off hours as necessary to meet departmental needs

·         Ability to effectively communicate both oral and written

·         Physically able to lift up to 50 pounds of equipment.

 

Other Required Qualifications – EMC

·         Understanding of EMC products and architectures.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

·         Development experience or background is a plus

·         Storage Management: Avamar storage experience helpful

·         Experience with scripting to customize functionality of storage subsystems a plus

 

Thanks

Sandeep

 

Sandeep Jain

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sandeep.jain@softwarepeople.us

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