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Job title

SAN / Storage Engineer

Company RESOURCE - The Smart Workforce Solutions Company
Wage between $0.00 - $0.00 Annually
Location United States, Michigan, Auburn Hills
Employment type Full Time
Education Not Specified
Year Experience 3 - 4 Years of Practical Experience
Travel Not Specified
Published on 10/1/2008
Description
Responsibilities will include daily procedures related to the verification normal operations, which may include the monitoring and troubleshooting of error reports related to storage infrastructure components.
Perform tests and support responsibilities for projects requiring storage and SAN components while adhering to the corporate guidelines and specifications.
Perform daily tasks associated with scheduled and unscheduled activities including storage capacity planning, and storage utilization.
Provide assistance in the design and engineering of the shared SAN architecture to meet the business needs within accepted corporate guidelines.
Analyze implementations and configurations against vendor services, proposals and products, assess risks and recommend enhancements or alternatives.
Perform daily tasks as required by the company change control processes, including creation and peer review of change control requests, and change and incident management tickets.
Maintain and update organizational and technical documentation required to sustain storage group effectiveness.

Qualifications
. BS Degree and minimum of 5 yrs related experience or 10 yrs of related experience( e.g. Technical or Operations)
. 5-10 years experience with SANs and Fibre Channel protocol with conversational knowledge of storage transport options. TSM knowledge a plus, and demonstrated ability to engage in enterprise backup and disaster recovery strategy, implementation, and management (monitoring).
. 5-10 years experience demonstrating effective interpersonal skills and the ability to assess client needs. Ability to participate and interact in a team environment.
. 5-10 years experience demonstrating strong verbal and written skills necessary for clear definition of scope, technical solutions, project deliverables, appropriate system documentation and client communication.
. 5-10 years experience in the principles and concepts of storage hardware (Storage subsystems, disk, tape, ATLs, VTS, switches) with 5 years minimum experience and functional knowledge of similar Open Systems backup environments and open systems Fibre Channel SANs and storage subsystems.
. 5-10 years experience in the identification of various problems, along with strong troubleshooting skills.
. 2 years Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) experience - preferred
. 5 years of open systems experience (Intel/Windows, Linux, VMware and IBM/UNIX based) - preferred

Key Technologies

. IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC)
. Cisco MDS Fibre Channel switch platforms, Brocade Communications Fibre Channel switch platforms, and demonstrated proficiencies in port provisioning and zoning, VSAN/LSAN creation and maintenance, and the creation and maintenance of ISL networks
. IBM ESCON/FICON
. Knowledge and experience with CWDM/DWDM technologies and networks (Cisco, Nortel, Ciena, etc)
. Experience with NetApp FAS series (or IBM N-Series), IBM 4xxx, 8xxx, FastT series, ESS series, HP EVA, EMC Symmetrix, DMX, Clariion, Centera, Celera
. Knowledge and experience with storage replication technologies, such as NetApp SNAPcopy, IBM Flashcopy, and metro & global mirroring architectures, strategies, and implementation. df-tc

Experience/Skills
Qualifications
. BS Degree and minimum of 5 yrs related experience or 10 yrs of related experience( e.g. Technical or Operations)
. 5-10 years experience with SANs and Fibre Channel protocol with conversational knowledge of storage transport options. TSM knowledge a plus, and demonstrated ability to engage in enterprise backup and disaster recovery strategy, implementation, and management (monitoring).
. 5-10 years experience demonstrating effective interpersonal skills and the ability to assess client needs. Ability to participate and interact in a team environment.
. 5-10 years experience demonstrating strong verbal and written skills necessary for clear definition of scope, technical solutions, project deliverables, appropriate system documentation and client communication.
. 5-10 years experience in the principles and concepts of storage hardware (Storage subsystems, disk, tape, ATLs, VTS, switches) with 5 years minimum experience and functional knowledge of similar Open Systems backup environments and open systems Fibre Channel SANs and storage subsystems.
. 5-10 years experience in the identification of various problems, along with strong troubleshooting skills.
. 2 years Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) experience - preferred
. 5 years of open systems experience (Intel/Windows, Linux, VMware and IBM/UNIX based) - preferred

Key Technologies

. IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC)
. Cisco MDS Fibre Channel switch platforms, Brocade Communications Fibre Channel switch platforms, and demonstrated proficiencies in port provisioning and zoning, VSAN/LSAN creation and maintenance, and the creation and maintenance of ISL networks
. IBM ESCON/FICON
. Knowledge and experience with CWDM/DWDM technologies and networks (Cisco, Nortel, Ciena, etc)
. Experience with NetApp FAS series (or IBM N-Series), IBM 4xxx, 8xxx, FastT series, ESS series, HP EVA, EMC Symmetrix, DMX, Clariion, Centera, Celera
. Knowledge and experience with storage replication technologies, such as NetApp SNAPcopy, IBM Flashcopy, and metro & global mirroring architectures, strategies, and implementation.

Storage and storage networking (SAN) systems architecture, design, engineering, implementation, support, and maintenance including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and patching storage subsystems and fabric switches.

Ability to allocate and assign (provision) storage in a virtual SAN and virtual storage environment using platform tools and defined processes.


Other desired skills:
SAN / Storage Engineer