AVP-Manager Systems Engineer recruitment
Responsibilities
This is a challenging position on the Technology Operations team requiring a wide array of skills in core IT infrastructure. The candidate must be very motivated and willing to take on challenges, learn new concepts and be willing to multi-task to succeed. This job, specifically involves, managing the engineering and operations teams related to the Storage and Backup infrastructure.
The Technology Operations team is responsible for the network, voice, servers, storage, workstations, directory services, messaging, and software distribution systems. The job requires a very good understanding of the underlying platform infrastructure. The team is responsible for setting standards for HW and core Operating software for all the aforementioned environments. This includes HW standards for network, voice systems, servers, storage and workstations, standards for operating systems, firmware, application versions, etc. Besides selecting the appropriate standards, the team is responsible for designing the infrastructure and implementation and creation of SOPs in coordination with the operations teams. The team also has ongoing responsibility to oversee the operations teams and ensure that SOPs are followed, problems identified and resolved in a timely manner.
Primary Responsibilities
- Responsible for overseeing, managing and mentoring a team of engineers responsible for the following as it relates to the Storage and Backup teams:
* Oversee and monitor the operations teams and ensure the infrastructure is always in a high availability state
* Responsible for creating SOPs and reporting for operations teams and ensure adherence to the same
* Responsible for the evaluation and recommendation of HW/SW solutions for other IT teams / business groups
* Keeping abreast of new technologies and developments in related area of responsibility
* Recommend adoption of new technologies and work on testing and deployment plans
Qualifications
Education Qualification and Certification Requirements
- Bachelor Degree in Engineering or Equivalent area of study
- Industry Certification in relevant area is a plus
- Minimum 8 years experience in IT industry in relevant area
Skills
- Demonstrates ability to lead cooperative efforts in pursuit of organizational goals.
* Supervisory experience for projects or functional teams.
* Decisions and results positively impact cost, timing, and short term goals of the organization.
* Demonstrated leadership in driving successful completion of projects either in a technical, business or financial analysis or management role.
* Develops and maintains strong internal working relationships that foster mutual respect, teamwork and results.
* Leads cooperative efforts among members of a project team.
* Is increasingly sought out to resolve technical, product or client issues through the use of interpersonal skills.
* Communicates effectively at all levels within the organization.
* Networks with key contacts outside of own area of expertise.
* Strong team player. Always willing to assist others regardless of position.
* Places interests of the team above individual self-interest. Respectful of others. Strong work ethic.
Technical Skills
- Experience designing, deploying and maintaining storage systems in a production data center environment
* Expertise in Storage management (SAN, NAS, CIFs)
* Expertise in SAN fabric management (FC, FCoE, iSCSI, etc.)
* Knowledge of backup systems management
* Proficiency with performance, capacity planning and reporting tools
* Understanding of I/O workloads, data storage (RAID, SAN, NAS, and Logical Volume Management), and back-up concepts
* Understanding of storage tiering and focus on lower cost archiving options
* Understanding of backup systems
* Preferred exposure to following vendor technologies
- EMC: VMAX, VNX, VPLEX, Symmetrix, Clarion, Centera
- Dell: Compellent
- EMC: Avamar
- Knowledge of Shell scripting (any one of bash, csh, ksh, WMI) or a high-level programming language (Perl, C++, VB/Java scripting) is a big plus
- Familiarity with servers
* Windows and UNIX administration experience (AIX/RHEL focus preferred) is a plus
* Familiarity with modern server-class hardware based on Intel and IBM platforms is also a plus
- Some exposure / awareness of various Virtualization technologies
- Exposure to advanced deployments such as clusters, load balancing, etc.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
- Ability to learn quickly and draw meaningful conclusions from independent research
- Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects
- Ability to understand and analyze client requirements and provide appropriate solutions
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