Storage Engineer Job in Ashburn 20146, Virginia Us
Atrilogy Solutions Group has an immediate need for an experienced Storage Engineer in Ashburn, VA to work for our client. Our client is a highly respected industry leader in the cloud industry. A security clearance is not required, however, candidates must be US Citizens.
Responsible for:
•Ensuring optimal performance of storage subsystems
•Responsible for capacity management and reporting of storage subsystems and backup products
•Document technical problems, resolutions, and processes for assigned tasks and projects
•Provide consistent follow-up on incidents/changes until long term objectives are completed
•Provides complex technical consultation on current and proposed systems to other organizations and clients
•Architects highly available, distributed solutions across the appropriate engineering environments to meet business requirements or enhance performance
•Reviews cost analyses and vendor comparison reports to ensure cost-effective and efficient operations
•Performing testing in preparation of storage related hardware or software upgrades
•Recommends vendor/approach and presents to senior management
•Develop and conduct training for Tier II and systems engineers to further develop the virtualization expertise of the staff
•Required to be a part of an on-call rotation, and will occasionally be responsible for after-hours maintenance work
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
•Total understanding of capacity, performance, trending, tuning – storage resource management
•Experience with RAID group configurations and optimizing performance of the SAN
•Installation and configuration of multipathing software (i.e. PowerPath etc.)
•Configuring the SAN to operate with VMware and other hypervisors
•Ability to run proof of concept and write use cases
•Must be able to maintain ownership of vendor relationships and ongoing technology assessments
•Ability for oral and written communication with the highest levels of management including the ability to effectively communicate technical information to remote locations.
•Solid understanding of storage networking fundamentals, concepts, and components, including storage subsystems, SCSI, Fibre Channel, switches, iSCSI, HBAs, virtualization, zoning, LUN masking, LVM, etc.
•Can work alone and be a self-starter
Education and/or Experience:
•Experience administering enterprise and mid-tier storage subsystems and understanding of concepts such as split-mirror, snapshot backups and remote storage replication
•Work experience in large hosting or campus data center environment
•Strong industry experience in Enterprise Storage product development
•7 + years industry experience
•Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science or Management Information Systems