Systems Engineer; EMC, NetApp or VMware

Overview

Systems Engineer (EMC, Net App or VMware) – Full-time. All candidates must be US Citizen and either local to the area or willing to relo. The client is will to offer relo assistance. Salary+ Benefits.

• The Storage and Virtualization Engineer evaluates, implements and maintains Storage Area Networks (SANs) and storage systems across enterprise platforms.
• Should have hands on experience with SAN/NAS management, coordinating and performing system backups, monitoring system availability, troubleshooting, diagnosis and resolving problems, recovering processes affected during down-times, hardware and software configurations, performing monitoring and tuning, performing change management, and disaster recovery participation.
• They will be the primary point of contact for all network incidents that cannot be resolved by support technicians.
• Responsibilities include working with Unix and Windows system administrators to connect and configure Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) on servers, as well as design, configure and provision storage for servers.
• Perform day-to-day storage system administration, hardware installation, performance monitoring and client problem resolution.
• Work with Unix and Windows system administrators on a daily basis to configure and provision storage for servers, analyze performance from both the server and the storage perspectives using all available tools (including Windows and Unix performance measurement utilities).
• Troubleshooting and potentially correcting issues pertaining to storage connectivity, capacity or performance is also required.
• Perform periodic and emergency system maintenance, minimizing business impact to the greatest extent possible;
  Troubleshoot and resolve storage-related hardware and software problems.
• Work with Unix and Windows engineers to isolate problems and provide corrective action. This may require after-hours and on-call work schedules in the event of unplanned events.
• Perform full and incremental backups of all lab infrastructure and systems, to include all systems connected to the Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN).
• Provides efficient and reliable storage allocation and defines backup, recovery, archival procedures.
• Maintains storage configurations to provide capacity planning and performance monitoring/tuning of systems.
• Must possess an in-depth knowledge of storage networking standards, protocols, security, and performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Perform general maintenance / backup / restoration tasks IAW technical tasking.

• VMWare Certified Professional (VCP-Cloud or higher) or equivalent experience
• VMWare Certified Advanced Professional on vSphere 5 (VCAP5-
• EMC Certified Information Storage associate (EMCISA or higher) or equivalent experience