Sr. Storage Engineer

Client:
Gordon and Rees LLP

Role:
Sr. Storage Engineer

6
- Months Contract to Hire

Location:
Walnut Creek, CA 2-3 days onsite (LOCAL ONLY)

Visas Accepted: H4

EAD, GCEAD, USC, GC only!!

Must Have (these should be on the resume, otherwise will be tagged as NQ)

• Atleast 10 years of experience
• Strong experience in Nimble Storage (Now HPE Nimble Storage) and Cohesity

Storage Systems:

Experience with SAN (Storage Area Networks), NAS (Network Attached Storage), and DAS (Direct Attached Storage).

Storage Protocols: Knowledge of Fiber Channel (FC), iSCSI, NFS, CIFS/SMB, and Object Storage (S3).

Storage Hardware & Vendors: Hands-on experience with technologies from vendors like Net App, Dell EMC, Cohesity, HPE, etc.

Cloud Storage: Understanding of AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, and hybrid cloud storage integration.
* A plus
* Storage Virtualization:

Experience with VMware vSAN, IBM SVC, or other virtualization solutions.
* A MUST
* Storage Performance Tuning: Understanding of RAID levels, SSD/HDD performance differences, IOPS, latency, and throughput optimization.

Capacity Planning & Monitoring: Familiarity with tools like Splunk, or vendor-specific monitoring solutions.

Data Security: Knowledge of encryption (at rest/in transit), access control, and storage security best practices.

Regulatory Compliance: Familiarity with HIPAA, GDPR, PCI-DSS, and other data protection standards.

Troubleshooting: Ability to diagnose storage performance issues and system failures.

Collaboration: Experience working with Dev Ops, Networking, and Security teams to design and implement storage solutions.

Project Management: Participation in storage migrations, upgrades, or disaster recovery planning