Job Details

Senior Storage Systems Engineer

VERNON HILLS-60061, IL, US
01/05/2017

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Required Skills

    VMware
Company

Infinity Consulting Solutions, Inc

Experience

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Job Description

Senior Systems Engineer - SAN Specialist

The Senior System Engineer recommends, designs, implements, and optimizes Storage and backup infrastructure.

The Senior Engineer applies expert knowledge and skills to deliver a stable, secure, fault tolerant, scalable, and flexible storage and backup infrastructure for operations.

The role leads support efforts when storage and backup problems arise, and coordinates and drives successful implementations with staff and vendor personnel, including contributing to storage and backup technology strategy and participating in product evaluation and selection.

This individual will also mentor and provide guidance to the System Engineering staff.

Key Areas of Responsibility

§ Support, install, maintain, and troubleshoot storage, backup and related software.

§ Coordinate and/or complete repairs of physical and logical failures.

§ Optimize and design processes to ensure proper software and firmware patch levels.

§ Remediate issues and identify the root causes from Storage and backup System error events and

monitor for performance bottlenecks

§ Lead the technical architecture documentation for storage infrastructure and ensure they

are up-to-date.

§ Identify, recommend and implement hardware upgrades and coordinates installation activities

§ Manage and maintain the storage, backup and Hyper converged architecture

§ Coordinate and design Storage and backup implementations for application environments with

coworkers and vendor personnel

§ Act as a technical point of reference for and mentor other Engineers.

Responsibilities

§ Collaborate with business owners to complete server project requirements.

§ Participate in business continuity planning for infrastructure.

§ Coordinate with IT Help Desk to communicate issue status and respond to questions.

§ Rotates On-Call support responsibility.

§ Support security policies, practices, and guidelines for the server infrastructure.

§ Researches, recommends tests and installs new hardware and software versions as required

meeting business needs and using best practices.

§ Proactively collaborate cross-departmentally on projects.

§ Work additional evening and weekend hours as necessary.



Minimum Qualifications

§ High School Diploma or equivalent.

§ 7+ years of experience in Information Technology Engineering

§ Technical certifications associated to the chosen technological track.

§ Expert working knowledge of the appropriate storage systems and physical hardware.

§ Proven history of balancing multiple priorities simultaneously with the ability to adapt to the

changing needs of the business while meeting deadlines.

§ Flexibility to work evening and weekend hours as necessary.

§ Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to relay technical

information to a non-technical audience and effectively interact with all stakeholders

including senior leadership.

§ Solid process documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

§ Expert understanding of Storage Area Networks, including solutions from EMC (VNX,

VMAX, Unity, Avamar, Data Domain) and Nutanix systems.

§ Expert management experience with Cisco MDS zoning.

§ Experience managing Linux servers and environments.

§ Experience with VMware virtual server farms.

§ Experience deploying software, firmware, and updates to storage and backup

environments.

§ Experience with DR planning, concepts, and strategies as it relates to storage and

backup.

§ Experience managing team projects and mentoring.


Specialty Responsibilities


§ Management of Hyper converged, SAN, NAS and backup environments.

§ Management of Cisco MDS environment.

§ Collaborate with storage providers to validate applicable patches, schedule installations

and upgrades.

§ Create and manage Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions as it relates to

data storage.

§ Monitor and test system performance; prepare and deliver system performance statistics

and reports.







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Recruiter Details
Doug Klares
1350 Broadway, Suite 2205, NEW YORK-10018, NY, US
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