Position: Powerflex Engineer
Location: 100% remote
Duration: 9 month contract
Top Skills Details
- Must have strong Powerflex manager experience - WF using 4.6.1 but should have min of 3.6 version
- Vulnerability testing
- Remediation & configuration experience
Secondary Skills - Nice to Haves
- Prior Dell & EMC experience is a plus
Job Description:
Will work on a large Dell team w/varying levels of experience. Planning is complete - this team primary responsibility will be to catch up on remediation and vulnerability testing. The end customer is Wells Fargo. WF is working on a massive Data Center consolidation project - consolidation 9 existing data centers and migrating into 4 new data centers.
- Have a very good understanding of all PowerFlex Components and Operations
- Worked on different versions of PowerFlex OS 3x and 4x
- Working experience on 2- Layer and HCI offerings of PowerFlex
- Have a good understanding of all PowerFlex OS components such as MDM SDS SDC SDR and SVM
- Able to explain different entities within a PowerFlex cluster Protection Domain Storage Pool Acceleration Pool Snapshot Devices Volumes and Hosts
- Familiar with PowerFlex OS CLI or SCLI
- Able to manage PowerFlex systems using PowerFlex manager (PFxM)
- Able to navigate the PowerFlex Manager UI to perform different activities
- Have a complete understanding of the PowerFlex Management Platform (PFMP)
- Able to perform expansions of Storage Only Compute Only and HCI resource groups
- Have a complete understanding of the purpose of a RCM
- Able to perform health assessments on a PowerFlex system and remediate deviations
- Know the complete workflow to perform a RCM upgrade
- Able to differentiate difference RCM versions and decide the upgrade path
- Troubleshoot PowerFlex upgrade failures and hardware failures
- Troubleshoot PowerFlex Management Platform errors
- Working experience with Cloudlink encryption and able to perform all day to day activities that are required to manage a Cloudlink setup
- Deploy PowerFlex Management Platform and SO CO and HCI resource groups
- Clear understanding of how PowerFlex nodes should be cable to achieve full redundancy and connectivity
- Demonstrate good understanding of vCenter and its operations
- Familiar with managing ESXi hosts and VMs using vCenter
- Thorough understanding of virtual networking within vCenter
- Able to explain concepts of Standard switch Distributed Virtual switches portgroups LACP and failover/Load balancing policies with respect to vSphere networking
- Experience using iDRAC for remote server management hardware troubleshooting and Firmware upgrade
- Have experience building ESXi hosts and Linux servers using ISOs
- Understanding of Linux network configurations and config files
- Experience working with Dell support collecting logs and collaborating with different teams to resolve issues related to PowerFlex