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Hi Team,

Hope you are doing great.

My name is Yogi and I am working with Profile 500 Consulting. I would like to reach out to you for contract position SAN/Storage Engineer for below mentioned job opportunity in Durham, NC. Job description and requirements are listed below. Kindly review these requirements and if interested, send me your resume in WORD format. Once I get your resume, I will call you to discuss additional information about the job. If you have any questions please feel free to either call me or send me an email.

Position: SAN/Storage Engineer

Location: Durham, NC

Duration: contract

SAN/Storage Engineer

Summary: As a Senior Systems Engineer for Storage you will be responsible for the design, installation and maintenance for enterprise class Storage Area Networks (SANs) / NAS and Backup Area Networks (BANs) environments in a global setting. Responsible for the overall performance, capacity management, integrity and security for both SAN & NAS environments. Under general supervision, required to conduct system analysis, development to keep all systems current with changing technologies and make sound technology recommendations from both a IT infrastructure and global business support initiatives:

Essential Job Functions: This is not intended as a comprehensive list; it is intended to provide a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities. Incumbent(s) may not be required to perform all duties listed, and may be required to perform additional, position-specific tasks.

For Systems Engineer SR. (Storage) assignment:

• Designs, builds and implements SAN / NAS infrastructure systems. Follows established procedures to build and install hardware and software solutions. Provides feedback on procedures.
• Researches & evaluates new storage technologies as assigned by senior team members. Meets with vendors and manufacturer product demos and training. Assists with establishing criteria for evaluating solutions.
• Evaluate and install major storage software releases, storage hardware upgrades, evaluate and install patches and resolve storage software related problems.
• Monitors SAN Fabric, NAS and Storage array sub-system configurations to ensure optimal performance and capacity levels for both storage and switch ports.
• Performs storage provisioning for Unix, Wintel and VMware environments.
• Configure and administer SAN fabric (switches / directors), storage arrays, and NAS filers.
• Performs all aspects of trouble shooting storage issues , software, hardware, performance Including SAN fabric.
• Provide recommendations and implement best practices to provide optimal storage performance and documented procedures and functional design specifications.
• Provide local and remote support for SAN and NAS environments.
• Performs storage provisioning for Unix, Wintel and VMware environments. Provide storage array capacity utilization reports and SAN fabric port capacity utilization.
• Assist with support from storage perspective for enterprise class data protection environment, including the configuration and administration of backup hardware infrastructure components.
• Require to support site to site data replication between major data centers and co-location site.
• Builds and maintains relationships with business and cross-functional IT groups. Meets with business and IT staff to learn and understand requirements. Proactively collaborates and seeks solutions with peers.
• Implements existing IT infrastructure processes and provides feedback on new processes as required. Follows documented procedures to meet compliance and security requirements.
• Supports operational activities such as level three system support, root cause analysis, systems validation, performance tuning and capacity management. Works with Operations staff to improve monitoring  and alerting activities.
• Mentors and provides guidance to members of other infrastructure teams. Documents procedures, demonstrates support tools and provides ad-hoc training.
• Contributes to the development of policies, standards and processes within the systems engineering function.
• Leads planning and support activities that improve the global operations initiatives.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Experience with designing and implementing SAN & NAS solutions and related services, such as(site to site replication, snapshots / business copies, de-duplication and storage virtualization )
• Experience in a heterogeneous storage environment, preferably with global sites
• Able to troubleshoot and resolve all storage replication traffic problems
• Hands on knowledge of storage switches & directors specific to Cisco (Nexus).
• Proficient in storage provisioning, administration and troubleshooting with NetApp hardware and software toolsets.
• Primary experience with EMC & Netapp storage devices and their associated software administrations toolsets and O/S.
• Experience or ability to run projects to migrate storage subsystems from same or different storage vendor technology in order to support company acquisitions
• Extensive experience (5+ years) with SAN & NAS technologies including the ability to make design decisions for new implementations
• Ability to troubleshoot components of SAN fabric, storage sub-systems (arrays) including NAS.
• Experience designing and implementing disaster recovery storage solutions, supporting physical and virtual server environments.
• Experience deploying and supporting SAN/NAS storage devices –EMC (VMAX, VNX, DataDomains, Xtremio, Isilon, Centerra,and CTA); NetApp (FAS arrays).
• Must be knowledgeable with varies storage protocols, FC, FCoE, iSCSI, CIFs / NFS.
• Experience deploying and supporting SAN fabrics – "Cisco" directors / switches preferred utilization FC or FCoE. Knowledge of Mcdata / Brocade directors – switches would be a plus.
• Ability to make design decisions on leveraging storage in the VMWare environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to write and update concise and logical technical documentation, including, but not limited to; diagrams, charts, specifications and design models
• Ability to communicate at an executive level and articulate business value of technical solutions
• Ability to work with team members, at all levels, decision makers, and stakeholders to define business requirements and systems goals, and to identify and resolve business systems issues
• Function as a mentor to provide knowledge transfer to peers and IT staff
• Ability to make strategic hardware and software recommendations Other skills not required, but a definite plus:
• Experience with Symantec's Netbackup , implementation & administration.
• Knowledge of McData / Brocade SAN switches
• Experience with the following storage vendor technologies ; IBM StorWize V7000, IBM SVC, IBM DS5xxx, HP EVA 6xxx
• Experience with compliance of FDA (GxP), SOX, HIPPA, or related regulated environments
• Microsoft, VMWare, and/or SAN Storage certifications
• Experience with Unix / AIX, Linux, and VMware server administration and scripting

Thanks & Regards
Yogi
Talent Acquisition | Profile500 Corp | yogi@profile500.com  |  847-305-3768