Senior Storage Engineer Senior Job Description
Senior storage engineer senior
provides recommendations to optimize the storage infrastructure for storage, network, VMWare, Windows and Linux operation and performance for connected devices.
Senior Storage Engineer Senior Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Assist the Systems Architect with the design, implementation and ongoing support of virtualization/SAN projects data center operations
Provide expert troubleshooting skills and guidance to Linux/UNIX/Windows administrators when it comes to configuring and maintaining client side SAN and NAS configurations
Design, implementation, Configuration, and Administration of mission critical Fiber Channel Storage Systems (NetApp and X-IO San Storage)
Work closely with Project management, application development and other infrastructure teams like Network, Security and database teams to develop scalable, maintainable and highly available storage architecture
Work closely with virtualization team to recommend and implement best practices around storage deployments
Create Perl and Bash scripts to automate various storage administration tasks
Ability to lead and mentor junior storage administrators, attend meetings and evaluate projects for level of engagement required, and coordinate implementation activities across multiple teams
Key deliverables are the standardisation of the PRODUCTION & TEST storage infrastructure on NetApp SAN/NAS products and the development of operational processes and procedures to ensure that this equipment performs as expected
Maintain the underlying storage platforms and ensure that they are managed in line with best practice processes that cover monitoring, reporting, performance, capacity, availability and security management, regardless of the platform in use
Design, implementation, Configuration, and Administration of mission critical VMware ESXi and AWS infrastructure including hardware and software
Senior Storage Engineer Senior Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Storage Engineer Senior
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ITIL, CCNA, RHCE, CCNP, AWS, MCSE, MS, EMCSA, II, EMC
Education for Senior Storage Engineer Senior
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior storage engineer senior job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical, Science, Math, Management Information Systems, Chemistry, Physics, Education, Information Systems
Skills for Senior Storage Engineer Senior
Desired skills for senior storage engineer senior include:
FC
Linux
NetApp
FCoE
Systems
Brocade
FCIP
NFS
Symantec
Ongoing maintenance of the infrastructure
Desired experience for senior storage engineer senior includes:
Act as technical project manager for major initiatives, changes and product deployments
Configure, manage, and maintain physical and virtual infrastructures
Participate in an off hours on-call rotation
Superior project leadership skills
Provide off-hour problem and change implementation support
Good network background with frontend knowledge
Senior Storage Engineer Senior Examples
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Senior Storage Engineer Senior Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior storage engineer senior. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior storage engineer senior
- Maintain & install patch and revision upgrades on all local storage and switch systems
- Technical degree , BS Computer Science/Management Information Systems/Science/ Engineering/Math/Physics/Chemistry
- Using independent judgment, research, evaluate, install, configure, test, and maintain innovative storage-related computing hardware and software systems, coordinating with vendors as applicable
- Design, develop and test new features and improvements to existing features within theSteelFusion authoritative storage cache and intelligent prefetch systems
- Lead efforts to research, evaluate, install, configure, test, and maintain innovative storage-related computing hardware and software systems, coordinating with vendors as applicable
- Provide technical leadership, influence and partner with fellow engineers to architect, design and build mission critical storage systems that can stand the test of scale and availability, while reducing operational overhead
- Debug and verify defect fixes
- Architect and Manage enterprise backup environment across data centers
- Will be required to participate in rotating 24x7 on call duties off-hour planned activities
- Specialize in configuration, management, and maintenance of the Converged Infrastructure physical and virtual storage infrastructure
Qualifications for senior storage engineer senior
- Must have 5-7+ years outside technical presales experience AND 2-3+ years of experience focused on Data Management / Data Tiering networked storage solutions and/or complex enterprise solutions
- Experience in automation/orchestration (storage, server, network, ) is highly desirable
- Detailed knowledge of Unisphere (VMAX, VNX), path management (PowerPath, native MPIO, ), snapshot, clone, storage tiering and thin provisioning
- Possess a strong understanding of IT Service Management processes, ITIL certification a plus
- Stays current with the latest server infrastructure and storage technologies
- Ability to analyze, propose and implement workflow and process improvements
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Senior Storage Engineer Senior Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a senior storage engineer senior. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior storage engineer senior
- Providing internal assistance on the EMC and/or NetApp storage product direction
- Understanding client's infrastructures, their needs and provide expertise and consulting on storage and VMware solutions
- Act as technical lead for new initiatives and deployments
- Configure, manage, and maintain physical and virtual Vblock storage infrastructures
- Cross train team members on Converged Infrastructure storage technology
- Architect appropriate storage platforms supporting network and server equipment needs for deployment
- Troubleshoots system errors and problems, documents and recommends solutions to improve the operating environment
- Oversee management of the SaaS production environment
- Recommend changes to architecture for operational optimization
- Maintain documentation for all infrastructure
Qualifications for senior storage engineer senior
- College degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience is required
- Candidate must have 10 years of experience in storage system administration
- Ability to work autonomously with application/workflow teams server and networking staff to create equipment lists and design documents for end-to-end host/storage environments, based on content type, access requirements, infrastructure and budget
- Experience with implementation and administration of Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) equipment required
- Experience with technologies such as Object-Based Storage, Cloud Storage Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud a plus
- The candidate must have excellent communications skills in order to be successful
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Senior Storage Engineer Senior Job Description
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Our company is hiring for a senior storage engineer senior. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior storage engineer senior
- Develop and maintain Java and Python components responsible for storage management
- Learn to work with the oVirt upstream community to be able to respond to bugs and development needs
- Use your Java and Python programming skills to develop new features and patches
- Fluent written and spoken English required with secondary languages a plus (Spanish, French, German etc)
- Inform consultants and operations staff of system events (new features, failures, patches) and the impact of these on the user community
- Write clean, well-documented,maintainable shipping code and unit tests
- Communicate clearly with peers and management about ideas, designs, and implementation details, through design and code documentation, and team discussion
- Work closely with fellow engineers to arrive at consensus-based approaches to problems
- Work with QA to explain new features and assist in test-plan development
- Work with Support on the rare occasion that a customer issue or bug requiresEngineering assistance
Qualifications for senior storage engineer senior
- Position requires after hours support and travel between data center locations
- Working knowledge of how to physically and virtually install and configure various SAN models
- Intermediate working knowledge of how VMWare, SQL 2008 and 2012, Oracle, Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2008, and 2012 work with the OS layer
- SNCP certification, knowledge of ITIL/MOF practices
- Brocade Switches including firmware and performance tuning
- 5 years of experience working in an Enterprise Storage environment
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Senior Storage Engineer Senior Job Description
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a senior storage engineer senior. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior storage engineer senior
- Modeling, measuring, and optimizing storage cluster performance
- Drive methodology and practice around measuring, evaluating, and delivering performance
- Help improve the quality, performance, and resiliency of our product
- In collaboration with the team, define goals and acceptance criteria
- Participate as needed along with the team to deliver enterprise-ready products
- Prepare and deliver conference presentations on technical topics
- Responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of enterprise wide storage related infrastructure both production and disaster recovery
- Ensure backups of server and vSphere environments are correctly configured and perform successfully each day
- Plan and perform system upgrades and patch management for enterprise storage arrays
- Responsible for shared 24x7 coverage of the storage infrastructure support
Qualifications for senior storage engineer senior
- Automation of Linux server deployment (Kickstart, Cobbler, FAI)
- Advanced scripting skillsets are required
- In-depth technical expertise using Veritas NetBackup
- Must be willing to work outside of normal business hours to complete implementations and resolve issues
- Knowledge of AWS product offerings desired
- Working knowledge of many of various vendor storage management applications such as NetApp NOM and OCI desired
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Senior Storage Engineer Senior Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of senior storage engineer senior. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior storage engineer senior
- Design and deploy storage systems and enhancements to existing systems and software
- Collaborate with other staff members to ensure smooth and reliable operation of storage, software, and systems for fulfilling business objectives and processes
- Guide and architect future storage technologies
- Provide Level 3 server, storage, and backup support Incident response and escalation for three data centers branch offices
- Resolving 3rd line storage related incident support calls
- Evaluating storage performance issues and storage requests
- Design/build/deploy storage solutions/resources
- Proactively monitoring the storage service environments
- Provide engineering support for storage infrastructure
- Establish and recommend policies on system use and services
Qualifications for senior storage engineer senior
- Networking (DNS, IPsec, BGP, VPN, Load Balancing) desired
- Databases (MySQL, Oracle, MSSQL) desired
- Programming / scripting (Java, Perl, Ruby, C#, and/or PHP) desired
- Knowledge of DISA STIGS mission systems desired
- Knowledge of ICD 503 and the Risk Management Framework desired
- Experience with the DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) desired