Powerflex Engineer

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