Storage Systems Architect

Top Must Haves:
10+ years related system engineering/Infrastructure and customer support experience.
2+ years implementing and supporting VVOLs
Extensive experience implementing and supporting hybrid cloud infrastructure.
5+ years' experience automating infrastructure systems (REST API, JSON, Ansible)
5+ years' experience administering / troubleshooting / implementing File, Block, and Object Storage

OBJECTIVE & DELIVERABLES
This position will act as a primary technical principal and is responsible for delivery of Storage solutions at an enterprise level. Expertise in Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) SAN and NetApp NAS technologies and experience with a multi Data Center environment. Candidates for this position must be able to, from day one, roll up their sleeves and hit the ground running, and bring their experience to the team to make the project deployments much smoother.

DELIVERABLES :

• Provide Senior Level Storage Systems Server setup, administration, configurations, and automated implementations.
• Help support State Fund's Enterprise Storage environments and resources for optimal efficiency, functionality, security and management.
• Oversee planning, design, implementation, and operation of Enterprise Storage Arrays(On- Prem/Cloud) infrastructure projects and participate in the specification of business requirements and implementation plans.
• Provide operational support and experience with managing virtualized infrastructures.
• Participate in Capacity planning and Disaster Recovery.
• Help define, improve promote architecture and standards based on ITIL best practices.
• Assist and support all Development and troubleshoot complex application issues.
• Provide on-site and remote technical assistance to other team resources and to customers.
• Provide infrastructure design, implementation planning, deployment support, software strategy. system troubleshooting, performance engineering and optimization, maintenance strategy.
• Provide technical guidance, knowledge transfer and mentorship to State Fund internal engineering peers as required and lead technical staff responsibilities.
• Drive requirements and technical due-diligence and infrastructure design.
• Secures storage systems by establishing and enforcing policies; defining and monitoring access.
• Accomplishes information systems and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
• Acting as the primary infrastructure design, contact on projects, providing leadership, advice on Enterprise and Cloud Storage systems.

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:
10+ years related system engineering/Infrastructure and customer support experience.

• 5+ years with both Storage Management NAS/SAN Arrays (Netapp and Pure).
• 5+ years' experience with FC / ISCSI Storage Area Networks (Cisco MDS)
• 5+ years' experience administering / troubleshooting / implementing File, Block, and Object Storage
• 5+ years' experience automating infrastructure systems (REST API, JSON, Ansible)
• 5+ years supporting and optimizing VMWare Vsphere virtualization environments
• 2+ years implementing and supporting VVOLs
• Extensive experience with NTFS and Unix permission administration
• Extensive experience implementing and supporting hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Extensive programming experience (Shell, Python, PHP, Powershell etc.).
• Experience and knowledge of Windows, Linux and Unix Operating systems.
• Fluent knowledge of Windows Active Directory, networking and security concepts.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to apply them during business impacting incidents.
• Capable of mentor others and lead by example (heart of a teacher)
• Project Management, Problem Solving, People Management.
• Ability to work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires in-depth evaluation of various factors.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field (e.g. Computer Science, IT, or similar disciplines).
• Equivalent work experience implementing and operating enterprise level data center storage systems (NAS and SAN), and compute infrastructure.
• MCSE,VCP,CCNA certifications desired.