Senior Storage Engineer

Role Overview for Senior Storage Engineer

We are looking for a competent person to join the global system engineering organization as a Storage and Virtualization SME to define innovative global solutions in a hybrid multicloud environment. Responsibilities will include building scalable, stable, and highly available innovative solutions, automation and orchestration mechanisms and tooling for On Prem and Hybrid Cloud platforms as well as working to continually enhance existing storage and virtualization estate.

This position is technical and hands-on and requires an open mind attitude to venture outside of their comfort zone when necessary. In addition, this individual will work closely with local and global technical leads, Engineering and Operations Teams and other cross-department teams to evaluate business needs and provide end-to-end technical solutions to drive strategies.  This job requires a mixture of architecture, engineering, operations, and support. Qualified candidates should have excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.

As a key member of the system engineering team, the storage Engineer will be charged with designing, building, and managing storage and Virtualization platform, ensuring solutions are designed for successful deployment on-prem and in the cloud as well assist and encourage and build solutions for migrating on prem workloads into Public Cloud.

Job Descriptions and Responsibilities

·       Architecting/operating innovative solutions to efficiently manage private and hybrid cloud.

·       Play a key role in migrating and transforming legacy solutions to the cloud.

·       Work with all the stake holders to on application migration from on-prem to cloud. Provide recommendations to app teams to run workloads optimally on private and hybrid cloud.

·       Use appropriate tools to automate deployment and orchestrate governance and security of Infrastructure as code and infrastructure in general.

·       Manage day to day requests from customers and stakeholders.

·       Deploy services as necessary. Develop and execute Standard Operating Procedures as necessary.

·       Operate, Manage, troubleshoot, Monitor, and report on All storage Infrastructure components of Private and Hybrid Cloud.

·       Compose and leverage Infrastructure as code using CloudFormation and terraform templates for the repeatable deployment of infrastructure.

·       Troubleshooting and resolving private and hybrid cloud-related issues.

·       Implement security best practices.

·       Review Architecture diagrams and deploy the solutions accordingly.

·       Engineer and document operational standards for new approved services and review/update existing ones.

·       Work with DevOps team to build CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and app teams.

·       Work with vendors to bring new tools/ services

·       Setting naming/ working and operational standards for new services

·       Follow change control procedures and policies.

·       Create Documentation, training to team members and provide reports to management.

·       Be on call and Fulfill On-Call Support duties.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience Requirements

Must have 5+ Years’ experience in a Multi Cloud and preferrable Hybrid Cloud environment managing the Storage Infrastructure.

·       Storage Certification from any leading Storage Provider

·       Strong and Excellent knowledge in architecting, managing, operating and hands on experience on Clustered Data ONTAP 9.x

·       Excellent knowledge of working of DATA ONTAP 9.x in NAS/SAN mode, multiprotocol, Snaplock, Snapmirror, Snapvault.

·       Excellent knowledge and hands on experience on managing all file protocols on ONTAP 9.x, Storage and Volume Management.

·       Hands on experience with ONTAP Fpolicy management and familiarity with external fpolicy engines.

·       Excellent knowledge of Global File Cache, Flex Cache and Flash cache solutions.

·       Excellent knowledge and hands on experience of ONTAP Cloud solutions like, CVO, ONTAP FSX, Azure Netapp Files, Cloud Insights and Cloud Secure.

·       Hands on experience on ONTAP, Management tools like OCUM, Cloud Managers, Active IQ, Grafana based NAbox.

·       Solid Hands-on Experience in managing Pure storage //X R2/R3 series block storage flash array. Purity//FA 6.x is must.

·       Complete understanding of Purity 6.x stack including de-duplication, compression, encryption, Data replication and data protection, active and remote clusters, and security protocols.

·       Hands on experience with Pure storage and volume management. Excellent knowledge of NVMe technology and particularly NVMEoF.

·       Hands on experience on HPE Nimble AFF/ Alletra 6K series all flash Block storage Array and deep understanding of Nimble OS5.x data storage/data access/data protection and performance policies.

·       Must have good technical knowledge of general Data Protection, Data replication, Data Migration, Data Access and Management, and Disaster Recovery methodologies and Technologies.

·       Excellent knowledge of Cohesity DataProtect is extremely desirable.

·       Must have analytical and troubleshooting skills to analyze Block and File storage performance issues.

·       Hands on experience on FC-SAN management with CISCO MDS9000 Series of directors.

·       Excellent knowledge of NXOS 8.x/9.x . Hands on experience on FC-SCSI protocol, including advanced Zone management and troubleshooting FC latency, Slow drain, flow analysis, congestion management and other performance issues.

·       Hands on Experience on DCNM and San Analytics/Insights or Nexus Dashboard Platform.

·       Excellent knowledge of any Data Protection and Recovery technology but Cohesity Data Platform, Cohesity Data Protect and Cohesity Data Archive 6.x highly preferred.

·       Must have working knowledge of Networking, security protocols and cyber resiliency programs and tools.

·       Scripting capability with shell scripts or power shell or Python.

·       Backup, HA and Disaster Recovery approach and design.

·       Good understanding of Compute, Databases, Analytics, and security services.

·       Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers.

·       Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.

·       Must be able to work independently and within team, mentor and train others and maintain immaculate documentation and reports.

Nice To have Skills.

·       Working knowledge of Linux and Windows Operating systems.

·       VMWare and Nutanix Hypervisors - Desired

·       Knowledge on VMC and Nutanix on AWS is desired.

·       Knowledge of Docker/container and Kubernetes EKS/On-prem, Rafay managed service) is a plus.

·       Knowledge of AWS/Azure platform architecture, including areas such as: Organizations, Account Design, VPC, Subnet, segmentation strategies., subscriptions, VNet, resource groups. Security groups, DNS, and routing, S3, EC2 , route 53, direct connect , express route—Highly desired.

·       Working knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD pipeline and Kubernetes highly desired.

·       Working Knowledge of automaton tooling and scripting experience – Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, Python, Power Shell

Critical Beyond the Technical Skills Required:

·       Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate technical and non-technical concepts to peers, customers, and management.

·       Must be capable of routinely making effective and timely decisions in alignment with departmental direction and based on sound business knowledge and industry best practices. 

·       Possess excellent technical problem solving and customer service skills.

·       Ability to cope well under pressure.

·       Initiative, drive, and ability to work effectively as part of a local team as well as a global team.

·        Must work well without direct supervision and as part of global teams.