Senior Storage Engineer

About the role and what you'll be doing:

The Senior Storage Engineer function ensures the stability, integrity, and efficient operation of SAN arrays and data fabrics, out-of-band managed storage arrays, as well as any array or appliance-based replication. Representing Ensono primarily on a critical US client, the Senior Storage Engineer will be driven to create positive change and modernization into a storage environment.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Brings prior experience to organize and define work for complex or ambiguous situations
• Resolves issues, manages workload, and balances priorities through frequent interruptions while meeting specific, time-sensitive deadlines
• Supports release and life cycle process storage array and fabric installs, upgrades, and decommissions
• Provides thought leadership for storage infrastructure support at the enterprise level
• Contributes to operational readiness of platforms with dedicated/shared teams and consults on resource and skills required, process documentation creation, updates to guidelines, policies, change, and audit procedures
• Participates in troubleshooting efforts for storage issues and leads in major incidents, root cause analysis, and performance analysis and tuning
• ITIL-compliant champion for incident, request, change, and with particular focus on problem management
• Partner with monitoring team to develop new event and performance monitors/alerts and analysis as needed for new and/or existing systems
• Participate in the modernization and automation of storage infrastructure
• Deployment of new SAN/Switch infrastructure
• Maintain accurate CMDB Participates in problem management to proactively review open client and infrastructure problems and known errors to minimize the time spent firefighting and troubleshooting, supporting quicker resolution of incidents and events when they do arise. Assist and provide technical input to Ensono storage solution architect and others on the complex solution design, configuration, integration, and installation of new services.

Qualifications

• Requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor degree; or 8 years and a Masters degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience; or equivalent work experience.

Platforms experience desired

• Nutanix, Pure, Hitachi, Brocade primarily. Dell EMC, Cisco, IBM, NetApp secondarily.

Other skills desired

• Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), Python, Ansible, Linux/Windows/Vmware, basic understanding of TCP/IP networks and firewalls.

Why Ensono?

Ensono is a place to make better happen – for our clients and for your career.