What are the responsibilities and job description for the Storage Engineer position at Open Systems Technologies?
A financial firm is looking for a Storage Engineer to join their team. This role is remote.
Compensation: $200-250K
Responsibilities
Compensation: $200-250K
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, automate and maintain global storage solutions, including SAN, NAS and local object storage and backup systems.
- Monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot:
- Storage System storage performance and capacity issues.
- Fabric Systems performance and capacity.
- Configure and manage storage replication, snapshots, and cloning technologies.
- Automate storage provisioning and DR failover with reporting and diagnostic upkeep.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, network, database, and application teams to understand storage needs and ensure alignment with business goals.
- Automate data protection and compliance checks.
- Conduct regular audits of storage environments to optimize for performance, scalability and cost.
- Develop and maintain documentation related to storage architectures, processes, and procedures.
- Participate in on-call rotation and provide tier-3 support for critical storage-related incidents.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 10 years of experience in enterprise storage engineering and operations.
- Deep technical knowledge in storage systems (e.g., Dell EMC, NetApp, Pure Storage, Hitachi).
- Deep understanding of protocols like iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS, Fibre Channel, and object storage (S3, Swift).
- Strong Database Storage Engineering knowledge.
- Strong understanding of application performance and recovery on large/small storage systems.
- Strong background in automation is a must.
- Strong understanding of performance metrics (e.g. IOPS, Latency, throughput).
- Experience in a high-performance environment including low latency database.
- Experience with backup/recovery solutions (e.g., Rubrik and Veeam).
- Top level debugging skills, on Windows and Linux systems.
- Knowledge of cloud storage services (Netapp StorageGrid AWS S3/EBS, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage) and hybrid architectures.
- Knowledge in security and data encryption methods and practices.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills and a methodical approach to problem-solving.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
Salary : $200,000 - $250,000