Storage Engineering Consultant - Cloud Infrastructure Engineering Group

The Team

The Storage Operations Team builds, deploys and maintains production SAN and NAS systems in a 24/7 environment across multiple global datacenters. Our team gets to work with leading edge SaaS infrastructure and virtualization technologies. You'll have an exciting opportunity to make a big impact as we help transform Cisco's vision of the Cloud into reality.

Role & Responsibilities

In this role as a Storage Engineering Consultant you will:

? Perform implementation, maintenance, monitoring, performance analysis, proactive troubleshooting and continual

improvement of the storage infrastructure (EMC, NetApp, Cisco MDS 9K)

? Drive automation of the implementation, maintenance and alerting of the storage environment

? Deploy and maintain a storage infrastructure that requires 24/7 availability

? Provide technical support in case of incidents during off business hours (on call)

? Maintain SAN/NAS devices firmware up to date as per vendor recommendations

? Participate in programs to deploy POC systems for evaluation and testing

? Review the entire environment and execute initiatives to reduce failures, defects and improving overall performance

Minimum Qualifications

? Demonstrated Experience supporting Cisco SAN switches (MDS 9K) in a production environment

? Demonstrated Experience in deploying and maintaining SAN and NAS systems (EMC & NetApp) in a production environment

? Demonstrated Experience working in and troubleshooting a high-uptime, high-availability environment

? Must be analytical and possess strong organization and problem-solving skills

? Participate in a regular on-call rotation

Desired Skills

? Strong virtualization skillset (ideally VMWare or KVM)

? Good understanding of networking technologies (TCP/IP, DNS and routing, etc)

? Industry standard SAN/NAS certifications a plus