Storage Engineer

Akkodis is seeking an Enterprise Storage Engineer for an 18-month contract job with a client in Southfield, MI. The candidate will be responsible for the design and engineering of a globally distributed storage environment. This person will be part of a cross‑functional engineering team that provides design and advanced support of both on‑premises and cloud storage solutions.

Pay Range: $45/hr-$50/hr. The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

• Assist with advanced support and design of enterprise‑level storage solutions, including both traditional SAN/NAS and Cloud storage platforms.
• Serves as a problem resolution escalation point for the production support and operations teams
• Assist infrastructure architects with testing and implementing new technology.
• Manages the SAN Fabric and Storage connectivity networks
• Design, Install, configure, and maintain enterprise storage technologies.
• Create and maintain system documentation for infrastructure technologies, including installation, configuration, migration and appropriate troubleshooting steps.

• B.S. degree in a computer science, information technology, computer related discipline or 7+ years IT work experience in a multi‑site global infrastructure environment.
• Must show a progressive advancement in responsibility including deep troubleshooting technical skills.
• Team Player with proven leadership, communication, organizational, and strong interpersonal skills.
• Self-motivated, with keen attention to detail and excellent judgment skills

• 7 - 10+ years of experience focused on SAN and NAS storage platforms.
• Hands‑on Experience managing multiple storage platforms including Dell Unity, Dell Power Store and Pure Storage arrays.
• Hands‑on experience with deployment, data migration and maintenance of AWS File Gateway and/or Nasuni cloud file storage platforms is required.
• Must have experience implementing, managing and migrating to cloud storage platforms
• Hands‑on Experience performing SAN and NAS file storage migrations required.
• Experience managing Cisco MDS SAN fabric switches in large data center environments
• Strong understanding of datacenter consolidation, IaaS, private cloud, virtualization, assessment and capacity planning technologies and best practices.
• Experience in system monitoring tools and techniques for supporting SAN, NAS and Cloud storage platforms
• Must have experience managing storage utilization and performance optimization for VMWare, Oracle RAC and SQL workloads.
• Must have experience developing, maintaining and executing disaster recovery and business continuity plans relative to storage platforms.
• Experience with data life‑cycle management and cloud tiering solutions/strategies.
• Experience supporting a large global environment required.

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Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short‑term disability, additional voluntary benefits, an EAP program, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.

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