Storage Specialist

Placed: 05/12/17
Region: Nottinghamshire
Location: Nottingham
Category: Jobs


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Storage Specialist

One of our Blue Chip Clients is looking for a Storage Specialists who is the technical experts in this technology

Skills Required

Produce innovative storage and backup designs for our cloud services offerings

Utilise a broad spectrum of technology expertise to produce part or all of the technical solution for our clients.

Apply depth and breadth of technical knowledge and be individually responsible for the design and scope of deliverables within a field of expertise.

Contribute to knowledge tools and communities, and ensure designs can be re-used as a template for other engagements.

Core Skills and Experience

SAN and NAS Storage arrays; SAN Fabric switch technologies

Backup and archiving software; Tiered and Hierarchical storage

Adept core IT skills across Windows and Unix/Linux platforms

IP Networks

Large scale data centres

Array based replication and snapshot technologies

Desirable Skills and Experience required

HP Storage platforms including 3PAR, StoreOnce, and StoreAll

EMC storage arrays and technologies including design and implementation of VMAX, VNX and VPLEX solutions.
vSphere and/or Hyper-V Hypervisors

Object Storage

Management software for large SAN estates

Software defined storage concepts

Server virtualization technologies - especially in a very large scale environment

Robust background and deep and broad knowledge of enterprise IT including comfortable working at the command-line level in several operating systems including Microsoft server and Unix/Linux flavours and has sufficient depth and breadth of technical knowledge to design and scope multiple deliverables across a number of technologies, although day-to-day role will be more consultative, using this knowledge base

Deep understanding of distributed storage and/or backup and familiar with several of the major enterprise levels of storage platform and/or backup software packages

Advise, design and architect advanced storage solutions using the following skills:

Advanced storage manipulations using advanced array features demonstrating an expert level of storage functionality and performance tuning of the array and the SAN network

Advance configuration of a backup server for advanced tuning and functionality, and use advanced features of the backup product

Advanced configuration of storage related software

Advise and engineer other storage , backup and archiving related products

Ability to develop solutions that enhance the availability, performance, maintainability and agility of a particular customer's enterprise. Has contributed to the design and application of new tools. Ability to build upon existing experience to develop new solutions to take to market.

Strong commercial focus and understanding of the market

Lead a team of project assigned resources for Storage and Backup, taking ownership of this area in the assignment including appropriate investigation and discovery, both technical and personal with customer area, to develop and deliver the architectural solution

Authoring and senior approval of technical documentation from the team's system

Lead and counsel a team in various project delivery tasks such as project meetings with customers and vendors, environment discovery tasks, larger scale storage deliveries, designs, migrations and implementations

Test and engineer release of new technologies and versions of products / software

Full understanding and consideration of the customer release and change control process

Provide estimates for advanced and major project delivery

Demonstrates broad knowledge in other technical areas in order to properly manage complex integration efforts. Demonstrates application of technical expertise in successful engagements involving multiple disciplines.

Ability to work across multiple disciplines with the ability to diagnose complex technical problems to their root cause

Maintain bleeding edge technology expertise and be seen as the storage expert and strategist by the customer

Rullion is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy

Price / Salary: £400/day