Storage & Backup Engineer

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

Your daily role responsibilities will be as follows:

• Full life cycle storage area network (SAN) engineering: architecture, design, administration, support including storage utilizations/capacity planning and adjusting storage requirements as well as monitor and audit system utilization, and performance

• Modifications and changes to the SAN infrastructure/design/configuration by following proper Change Management processes

• Perform daily Storage Engineer activities including management, zoning, provisioning, troubleshooting, and debugging

• Participate/perform in root cause analysis for significant problems and suggests clear recommendations for improvements

• Schedule, coordinate and lead planned down times

• Accurately update comments and status to tickets via ticketing system.

• Participate in on-call activities

• May need to work on scheduled maintenances, service-affecting activities and contingency work outside of regular business hours

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Passionate about this opportunity? Here are the basic qualifications we are looking for:

• Degree or equivalent work experience in related field

• Hands-on experience of NetApp and Dell-EMC (FAS, File/Block) storage solutions

• Hands-on experience with NetApp data management architectures, including cDOT

• Experience on NetApp data replication and data protection technologies (Snapmirror, Snapvault, Snapmanager for SQL/Oracle/Exchange/Share Point, SnapCenter Suite, VSC)

• Hands-on knowledge of SAN/NAS Network fundamentals (TCP-IP, FC, FCoE, iSCSI, WWN, WWNP, LIFS)

• Hands-on experience on fabric switches (Brocade and/or Cisco), Fiber Channel (FC) networking

• Good understanding of VMware virtual environments

• Able to document current design&configuration and to develop/maintain Standard Operation Procedures/Instructions and training mentorship

• ITIL Service Operation knowledge

• Fluent English in both spoken and written

• NATO Cosmic Top Secret Security Clearance or UK DV