Cloud Storage Engineer Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Cloud Storage Engineer to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and provide ongoing administration, maintenance and problem resolution of existing SAN / NAS storage infrastructure and related software;
- Design, implement and maintain SAN and NAS storage appliances / solutions for use by cloud and other compute infrastructure;
- Troubleshoot and resolve escalations from the teams support departments within defined OLA’s and processes;
- Create and maintain strong vendor relationships. Negotiate cost effective contracts and renewals as needed;
- Plan, execute and assist with ongoing cloud platform migrations with legacy cloud platforms.
Requirements:
- Strong oral and written communication skills;
- Strong organizational skills;
- Knowledge of software designed data centers (SDDC) methodologies and best practices;
- Flexibility to be available during non-business hours for projects, maintenance and non-planned emergency events;
- Ability to lift up to 70 pounds;
- Ability to multitask in a fast paced, high tech environment;
- Expert level experience working with enterprise class SAN / NAS infrastructure from Nimble, EMC, NetApp and Dell;
- United States citizen or legal to work in the US;
- Ability to write and publish effective end-user technical documentation;
- A passionate attention to detail;
- Certifications in Cisco, VMware, NetApp, Nimble, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure technologies a huge plus;
- Knowledge of cloud platform orchestration layer tools and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, CloudBolt and OpenStack;
- Able to commute to the office 5 days a week. Limited work from home options;
- Proven experience working with compute platforms from Cisco UCS and Dell;
- BS/BA degree coupled with at least two years’ relative work experience or the equivalent.