Consulting System Storage Engineer

Location: 4 to 5 days onsite in Nashville, TN

Duration: 6 month CTH

Job Summary

Provide technical responsibilities that cover a broad range of disciplines and/or a particular technical discipline that is of significance, particularly relating to storage solution design, engineering, delivery and administration. Perform various technical project assignments with no supervision. Identify, investigate, evaluate, automate and become proficient in new technologies and technical disciplines that are of significance.

A Consulting Systems Engineer – Storage is recognized as an expert in the Storage field, and they will be responsible for providing technical review, engineering, administration, analysis, trending, and reporting of all supported configurations. Primary duties will include administration of hardware and software in a multi-platform environment, technical documentation, project management, engineering, issue resolution, and technical presentations. Specific responsibilities include administration and maintenance of various storage platforms, such as Net App, Dell/EMC and Pure, operating system installation and customization where applicable, troubleshoot, coordinate, assist and advise in recovery from component failures of supported systems, mentoring and training junior Storage Engineers.

While the Consulting Systems Engineer – Storage will require cross-platform knowledge and expertise, the candidate should be a Subject Matter Expert in at least 2 of the following technologies with exposure to the others;
Dell EMC Power Protect, Power

MAX, Unity, Power Scale, Net App, Pure, Cybernetics, various enterprise protection technologies (i.e.

- Commvault, Zerto, Dell EMC Networker, Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor, Dell EMC SRDF) and storage management tool administration (i.e. Unisphere, SYMCLI, OnCommand).

General Responsibilities

• Requires knowledge of supported storage systems and storage operating systems, utilities, vendor products, applicable programming languages, diagnostic techniques, benchmarking methodologies, applicable communications protocols, applicable hardware configurations, use of statistical and analytical tools for system monitoring and evaluation. Also requires knowledge of technology, network, data and applications architectures. Ability to communicate with various levels and types of project team members is also required.
• Maintain frequent interaction with internal and vendor technical staffs and project managers to ensure effective delivery of solutions in accordance with project timelines and associated budgets.
• Provide technical input and skills for the installation and certification of supporting software and hardware in a lab environment in order to assure a sound deployment basis for production implementations.

Highlighted Competencies and Core Expectations

• Expert technical understanding of storage technologies, such as DellEMC, Net App and/or Pure is required; experience with all three vendors is highly desirable.
• Must have 7+ years’ experience (classroom setting and or professional) in deploying technical infrastructure computing solutions across platforms and components.
• Platform knowledge in one or more key areas including Windows Server (2012+), Redhat 6.0+.
• Experience with virtual technology, such as VMWare ESX is highly desirable.
• Proven track record of project delivery results.
• Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively are essential.
• Experience with creating automation scripting, not limited to but can include Power Shell, Ansible, RestAPI.
• Solid understanding and experience with operating system concepts and practical implementation of those fundamentals in a large-scale production environment.
• Working knowledge with key ITIL processes is desirable.
• Previous application development coding, debugging, testing and delivery into a production environment are highly desirable.
• A solid understanding of compute performance metrics and tools is highly desirable, to include understanding of CPU utilization levels, CPU and disk queuing, I/O response times, and other key performance indicators and their impact on performance.
• Experience…