R&D System Engineer; data storage

Outsourced technology development services Description

HP Storage Works D2D Backup Systems with HP Store Once deduplication provide disk-based data protection for data centres and remote offices. The D2D R&D team in Bristol has responsibility both for delivering products and for providing technology, such as deduplication, to other parts of HP. This is a very high growth area for HP. The successful candidate will join a team responsible for the R&D programme management and system engineering of these products.

• Investigating current and future backup and data storage technologies in order to be able to drive future product and market direction.
• Specifying future disk based backup appliance products or technology streams.
• Developing test strategies for products in development.
• Preparing QA/test environments, running tests, collating/analysing results and drawing engineering conclusions.
• Providing escalation support for complex customer and internal issues relating to disk based backup products and supporting the Data Unavailable / Data Lost (DU/DL) process.
• Providing additional system engineering bandwidth to support technical developments on the proposed D2D roadmap.
• Working with divisions within HP and third party companies to obtain technologies and develop new products.
• Producing whitepapers and other collateral for pre-sales and marketing teams on new products.

This role is available to candidates with 2+ years’ experience.

New or recent graduates with significant work experience and high technical knowledge will also be considered for the role.

• Masters or Bachelors degree in either an Electronic Engineering or Computer Science discipline (or closely related).

A good understanding/knowledge of the following:

• Computer architecture and operating systems (Windows server and Linux)
• SCSI, RAID, FC/SAN, file systems CIFS/NFS
• Computer networking skills (CCNA of great benefit)
• Software and product development life cycles (esp. Agile)
• Engineering processes for researching new technologies and products, gathering product/customer requirements and defining new product specifications and plans
• Product QA and test
• The technology behind storage replication and deduplication.
• Computer data backup processes and backup application software.

• Problem solving
• Project and time management
• Team working and communication
• Motivation and self-driven working.

• Experience with data storage products such as tape drives and networked storage devices NAS/SAN
• Experience working with or presenting to customers

Location Bristol, Avon

Country England

Start Date ASAP

Recruiter n.able technology services (NABLE-IT LTD)