Summary
The successful candidate must have prior experience leading a team and designing, supporting and administering storage/backup technologies in an enterprise environment. The candidate will need to have excellent people skills, strong analytical and technical skills for trouble shooting complex issues.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
Recommend Storage and Backup infrastructure solutions based on business requirements
Lead storage and backup architectural designs
The Storage Lead will be responsible for leading a team of engineers towards ensuring the storage environment supports the needs of the business
Lead a team of engineers, acting as the point of contact and ensuring continuity of operations, and providing guidance on their development
Regularly meet with stakeholders to discuss initiatives and ensure storage environment stays ahead of any expected growth/changes
Conduct performance, capacity, and lifecycle planning across the suite of storage and backup products, adjusting overall strategy as required
Author regulatory documents
Able to use vendor storage management tools to monitor, provision and report on the Storage infrastructure health and capacity
Perform Storage Management activities - zoning, provisioning, replication, troubleshooting etc.
Administer Enterprise backup software/hardware
Coordinate and manage vendor supported activities (Installs, maintenance, migrations etc.)
Use change management process
Comply with all audit, compliance, and regulatory requirements
Attend meetings as a team representative
Supervisory Responsibilities
The Storage Lead will be responsible for leading a team of engineers towards ensuring the storage environment supports the needs of the business
Lead a team of engineers, acting as the point of contact, ensuring continuity of operations, and providing guidance on their development
Regularly meet with stakeholders to discuss initiatives and ensure storage environment stays ahead of any expected growth/changes
Conduct performance, capacity, and lifecycle planning across the suite of storage and backup products, adjusting overall strategy as required
Qualifications
N/A
Technical Skills
Experience supporting the following SAN and NAS equipment
Dell EMC – Power Max, ECS, Data Domain
Infinidat – Infinibox
Netapp – All Flash
Cloudian
Cisco MDS switches
Experience supporting EMC SRDF replication
Experience supporting CommVault and Veritas Netbackup backup environments
Experience in managing storage in VMware virtualization environment
Linux and Windows Operating Systems experience
Coding/automation experience with Python, Terraform, Github and Jenkins
Knowledge/experience with VMware replication technologies like Zerto and SRM is a plus
AWS experience with storage is a plus
Education and/or Experience
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or related field or equivalent work experience
Good analytical, communication and teamwork skills
6 years or equivalent experience supporting Storage and backup environments
Certificates and Licenses
N/A
