Senior EMC Storage Engineer - CT-EMCWINSTOR

Prestigious company located in Chicago's Loop is currently seeking a Senior EMC Storage Engineer on top of Windows.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Assures the support and maintenance of the Firm's storage environments and related components including monthly and/or ad hoc status reporting.

Ensures the success of the functional Systems teams, as it relates to storage, backup and related technologies.
Works with sponsors and other stakeholders to achieve cross-functional goals.
Applies advanced and comprehensive functional knowledge to resolve complex issues.
Develops and implements changes to processes to ensure continuous process improvement and effective governance.
Interacts regularly and effectively with the Firm's IT Leadership Teams
Contributes to the on-going maintenance of Storage Management policies, procedures and communications
Supports a continuously improving environment by contributing to the problem management process and performs corrective and/or ongoing actions as assigned by the team lead.

Stays aware and knowledgeable of critical issues, opportunities and constraints affecting the availability and manageability of the Firm's storage environment

Education and/or Experience:
Required:
Bachelor's degree in Computer related curriculum or equivalent work experience
5 years storage support and management experience
Ability to get things done with minimal oversight
Ability to lead teams and work on teams as a contributor
Display effective time-management skills
Demonstrated competency in Storage Management, including Disk and/or Tape Backup-related support, maintenance and reporting role

5 years minimum hands on experience supporting EMC SAN, NAS technologies.
4 years of hands on experience supporting Hitachi AMS and Thunder SAN arrays.
Experience in the disciplines of Disaster Recovery, HSM, ILM and advanced backup technologies such as Virtual Tape Libraries

Excellent Vendor Management skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Excellent troubleshooting, reporting and performance improvement skills
Ability to work off hours for scheduled and emergency maintenance and/or upgrades.

Preferred:
Minimum 12 months at current level
Understand basic corporate finance, management and accounting principles
Commvault and other disk backup products
EMC disk products (CLARiiON, Centera, Celerra, NAS, etc.)
Cisco SAN Switch products
EMC Control Center (ECC) and other storage management software.
EMC Proven Professional
Storage Virtualization
Data De-duplication