Description
Raleigh, NC*3 Month Contract*
Open hourly rate
Responsible for the engineering the storage and backup needs of both physical and cloud hosted data center infrastructures. Leads the analysis of current and future requirements to effectively design the storage solution using both traditional and software defined storage approaches while determining design feasibility from both technical and economic perspectives.
Develops and maintains technical standards, procedures and documentation in partnership with services partners as needed. Compiles and analyzes operational data and directs tests to establish standard for new designs or modifications to existing equipment, systems, or processes. Partner and consult with varied technical and management staff to identify and plan access data center and cloud infrastructure designs, physical data center requirements and impacts and resolve design problems.
- Owns the planning and development of engineering designs in support of the implementation of storage and backup solutions using traditional and software defined storage approaches.
- Maintains technology currency and capacity planning in support of established SLAs.
- Defines hardware and software performance standards.
- Proactively provides information and ongoing consultation for IT and business areas as well as vendors directly or indirectly affected by the network or data center infrastructures.
- Leads the detailed infrastructure storage design of large and complex internal projects collaborating with IT stakeholders, service owners and partners.
- Provides operational readiness through the engineering, planning, coordination, and execution of performance and tuning analysis, systems support, incident and problem resolution, software installation, and upgrades.
- Provides level 3 support for storage solutions.
- Provides detailed guidance and consultation in solutioning production incidents when required.
- Collaborates with vendors on infrastructure designs to ensure the final product is what was architected or designed.
Hiring Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 5 years of systems engineering experience is required.
- In lieu of degree, 7 years of systems engineering experience.
- Direct experience with one or more storage vendors such as EMC, NetApp, Hitachi.
- Detailed experience with SAN, NAS, etc.
- Hands on experience with Software defined storage technology and proven experience in designing solutions using one or more SDS solutions.
- Experience with one or more backup solutions such as Data Domain or CommVault.
- Experience automating tasks associated with technical specialties.
- Experience successfully leading data center projects and initiatives.
Hiring Preferences
- Experience in multiple technical specialties preferred.
- Extensive knowledge of existing industry standards, technologies and operational norms across both storage and systems technologies.
- Experience in one or more of the following technologies:
- Software defined storage
- SAN infrastructure management
- Enterprise storage and data warehouse platforms
- Cutting-edge technologies involving grid, auto-tiering, heterogeneous disk pooling, and high performance storage arrays
- Experience with virtualization software such as VMWare
- Experience engineering technologies to be delivered as a service and an understanding of concepts of multi-tenancy.
- Strong leadership skills with exceptional technical aptitude in varied areas.
- Must be able to work independently and be self sufficient in defining and realizing infrastructure designs.
- Team and customer service oriented, flexible and adaptable with proven ability to solve problems in a collaborative and timely manner.
- Solid background in data collection, analysis, and reporting.
- Proven debugging skills
- Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
- Ability to effectively manage multiple priorities with strong organization and planning skill set.
- Knowledge of Systems Development Life Cycle Methodologies and process flows.
- Ability to correlate technical actions to business impact
- Flexible and adaptable with focus on effectively managing change.
- Relevant technical certification preferred.