Job Title: Cloud Solutions Engineer - Storage Platforms
Job Location: Denver CO.
Job Duration: 3 Months Contract to Hire
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering and/or related and/or equivalent work experience.
- Advanced experience with legacy vendor storage array hardware and software (Dell EMC Pure Storage Netapp Vast Data) SAN FC and IP switching (Brocade and Cisco MDS) Software Defined Storage (Ceph MinIO) and Block File and Object Storage protocols.
- Advanced storage engineering experience working in a fast paced dynamic enterprise environment.
- Responsible for working with Charter business units to identify storage solutions that fit the business requirements.
- Staying on top of cutting-edge storage technology in the industry including continued research and discussions with vendors and storage groups.
- Advanced working experience with Brocade BNA and SANnav Cisco DCNM Dell/EMC Solutions Enabler and SRS NetApp OCUM Virtana Workload Wisdom Pure1 Manage and HPE InfoSight
- Advanced experience with compute platforms such as Cisco UCS Dell HPE. VMware OpenStack Networking etc.
- Advanced experience with backup solutions and the integrations they may have with other software including Microsoft VMware OpenStack etc.
- Working knowledge of BC and DR concepts and solutions and what benefits drawbacks and integrations the storage layer has with BC/DR.
- Working knowledge of Backup and Recovery solutions.
- Advanced experience with how local storage architectures interact and integrate with cloud provider storage solutions.
- Advanced knowledge in robot framework to automate QA testing and robotic processes.
- Advanced experience with Virtana Workload Wisdom and FIO for benchmarking and performance testing.
- Advanced experience with TestRail to streamline testing processes.
- Advanced experience creating technical drawings and schematics using Lucid chart or visio.
- Advanced experience working in a SAFe/Agile environment utilizing Jira Portfolio/Jira Align to manage projects and daily tasks.
Certifications including:
- SNIA certified Storage Engineer (SCSE) Architect (SCSA) or Networking Expert (SCSN-E)
- Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)
- Brocade Certified Network Engineer (BCNE)
- EMC Proven Professional
- NetApp Certified Data Administrator (NCDA)
- NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer Administrator (NCIE)
Job Description:
- Actively and consistently supports all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
- Responsible for design of storage solutions which will be used in Charter production environments.
- Installing and maintaining of storage hardware and software in lab environment including provisioning decommissioning and data migrations.
- Assisting with storage procurement capacity forecasting and communication with vendors.
- Identifying and performing functionality and performance testing of storage solutions.
- Automation of storage provisioning and test cases.
- Responsible for certification of new and existing storage hardware and software which will be used in Charter production environments.
- Ability to work in cross-functional team.
- Responsible for creation and maintain documentation including Storage Certifications Implementation guides bulletins and designs.
- Provide input and feedback to architecture team members and act as SME on storage technology
- The ability to multi-task and juggle between priorities as needed.
- Responsible for the security design of storage solutions.
- Performs other duties as requested by manager.
Mandatory Skills:
- Storage array hardware and software; Brocade BNA and SANnav Cisco DCNM Dell/EMC Solutions Enabler and SRS