Storage Engineer

Position: Senior Storage Engineer

Location: Jersey City NJ

Job Descriptions and Responsibilities

• Architecting/operating innovative solutions to efficiently manage private and hybrid cloud.
• Play a key role in migrating and transforming legacy solutions to the cloud.
• Work with all the stake holders to on application migration from on-prem to cloud. Provide recommendations to app teams to run workloads optimally on private and hybrid cloud.
• Use appropriate tools to automate deployment and orchestrate governance and security of Infrastructure as code and infrastructure in general.
• Manage day to day requests from customers and stakeholders.
• Deploy services as necessary. Develop and execute Standard Operating Procedures as necessary.
• Operate Manage troubleshoot Monitor and report on All storage Infrastructure components of Jefferies Private and Hybrid Cloud.
• Compose and leverage Infrastructure as code using CloudFormation and terraform templates for the repeatable deployment of infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting and resolving private and hybrid cloud-related issues.
• Implement security best practices.
• Review Architecture diagrams and deploy the solutions accordingly.
• Engineer and document operational standards for new approved services and review/update existing ones.
• Work with DevOps team to build CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and app teams.
• Work with vendors to bring new tools/ services to Jefferies.
• Setting naming/ working and operational standards for new services
• Follow change control procedures and policies.
• Create Documentation training to team members and provide reports to management.
• Be on call and Fulfill On-Call Support duties.

Skills Qualifications and Experience Requirements

Must have 5 Years experience in a Multi Cloud and preferrable Hybrid Cloud environment managing the Storage Infrastructure.

• Storage Certification from any leading Storage Provider
• Strong and Excellent knowledge in architecting managing operating and hands on experience on Clustered Data ONTAP 9.x
• Excellent knowledge of working of DATA ONTAP 9.x in NAS/SAN mode multiprotocol Snaplock Snapmirror Snapvault.
• Excellent knowledge and hands on experience on managing all file protocols on ONTAP 9.x Storage and Volume Management.
• Hands on experience with ONTAP Fpolicy management and familiarity with external fpolicy engines.
• Excellent knowledge of Global File Cache Flex Cache and Flash cache solutions.
• Excellent knowledge and hands on experience of ONTAP Cloud solutions like CVO ONTAP FSX Azure Netapp Files Cloud Insights and Cloud Secure.
• Hands on experience on ONTAP Management tools like OCUM Cloud Managers Active IQ Grafana based NAbox.
• Solid Hands-on Experience in managing Pure storage //X R2/R3 series block storage flash array. Purity//FA 6.x is must.
• Complete understanding of Purity 6.x stack including de-duplication compression encryption Data replication and data protection active and remote clusters and security protocols.
• Hands on experience with Pure storage and volume management. Excellent knowledge of NVMe technology and particularly NVMEoF.
• Hands on experience on HPE Nimble AFF/ Alletra 6K series all flash Block storage Array and deep understanding of Nimble OS5.x data storage/data access/data protection and performance policies.
• Must have good technical knowledge of general Data Protection Data replication Data Migration Data Access and Management and Disaster Recovery methodologies and Technologies.
• Excellent knowledge of Cohesity DataProtect is extremely desirable.
• Must have analytical and troubleshooting skills to analyze Block and File storage performance issues.
• Hands on experience on FC-SAN management with CISCO MDS9000 Series of directors.
• Excellent knowledge of NXOS 8.x/9.x . Hands on experience on FC-SCSI protocol including advanced Zone management and troubleshooting FC latency Slow drain flow analysis congestion management and other performance issues.
• Hands on Experience on DCNM and San Analytics/Insights or Nexus Dashboard Platform.
• Excellent knowledge of any Data Protection and Recovery technology but Cohesity Data Platform Cohesity Data Protect and Cohesity Data Archive 6.x highly preferred.
• Must have working knowledge of Networking security protocols and cyber resiliency programs and tools.
• Scripting capability with shell scripts or power shell or Python.
• Backup HA and Disaster Recovery approach and design.
• Good understanding of Compute Databases Analytics and security services.
• Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives IT Management and developers.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
• Must be able to work independently and within team mentor and train others and maintain immaculate documentation and reports.

Nice To have Skills.

• Working knowledge of Linux and Windows Operating systems.
• VMWare and Nutanix Hypervisors - Desired
• Knowledge on VMC and Nutanix on AWS is desired.
• Knowledge of Docker/container and Kubernetes EKS/On-prem Rafay managed service) is a plus.

• Knowledge of AWS/Azure platform architecture including areas such as: Organizations Account Design VPC Subnet segmentation strategies. subscriptions VNet resource groups. Security groups DNS and routing S3 EC2 route 53 direct connect express route-Highly desired.

• Working knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD pipeline and Kubernetes highly desired.
• Working Knowledge of automaton tooling and scripting experience Terraform Ansible Puppet Jenkins Python Power Shell