Sr. Storage Engineer

Sr. Storage Engineer

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Job Description

Summary: The Solutions, Integration & Implementation Storage Engineer will have responsibilities for all engineering and implementation aspects of the enterprise tiered storage infrastructure including file services, SAN fabric, array administration, storage provisioning, DR replication, backup and recovery architecture, capacity management, data migration and information lifecycle management integration.

Essential Duties:

• Storage array and SAN fabric architecture and implementation of EMC suite of products: VMAX, DMX, CLARiiON, Celerra, VNX, Isilon, and Centera.
• Manage architecture of environments with EMC Vipr SRM, TimeFinder, SRDF, Navisphere, SnapView, and Celerra Replicator.
• Manage architecture and implementation of Cisco SAN directors. Design the zoning, mapping, and masking of LUNs from arrays to servers while maintaining a highly available redundant architecture leveraging multiple fabrics and path redundancy.
• Architect and implement all aspects of storage replication between data centers for disaster recoverability.
• Architect and implement Celerra and Isilon NAS that is hosting CIFS and NFS shares; including cross site replication and NDMP backups.
• Participate in IT project planning for new initiatives, migrations, upgrades and re-architecture.
• The Storage Engineer will be responsible for the planning and coordination of hardware, firmware and software upgrades to arrays, switches, host bus adapters, drivers, client agents and management software such as Control Center, Connectrix Manager, Solutions Enabler, PowerPath.
• Documentation of processes and procedures utilizing best practices including the creation and maintenance of supporting detailed infrastructure diagrams.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Periodic detailed reporting of storage and fabric capacity and utilization.
• Integrate advanced array snapshot capabilities with the enterprise database and backup/recovery infrastructure.
• The Storage Engineer will serve as member of a multi-disciplinary Infrastructure Domain Team.
• Submit weekly base/project level time tracking and status reports.

Qualifications

Education training and background preferences:

• Two years of post-secondary education in an information technology related field with at least four years of related professional experience.
• Vendor specific training utilizing management toolsets for the VMAX, Symmetrix, CLARiiON and Celerra NAS with Vipr SRM, Connectrix Manager and Navisphere.
• Demonstrable experience with the management of enterprise storage in a 24x7 production environment compromising a mix of UNIX/Linux and Microsoft Windows based operating system servers.