Consultant SAN Senior Engineer

Job description:

• Support acquisition, installation, maintenance, and administration of large enterprise SAN environment.
• Troubleshoot, perform root cause analysis and identify storage related problems
• Allocate SAN storage to servers and provide system security and access
• Use SAN management tools to analyze performance and identify bottlenecks or slowdowns and take appropriate action to resolve
• Plan, coordinate and upgrade components of the SAN as needed with software, hardware and microcode upgrades, etc. Work with vendors as needed in this process
• Accountable for SAN capacity planning and growth projection
• Participate in team collaboration to share on engineering efforts, technical challenges and breakthroughs
• Participate in 24/7 oncall rotation, major incidents and reviews (postmorterms)
• Work with vendors and team members to troubleshoot issues related to the operations (Problem management)
• Ensure assets are updated promptly in CMDB (Asset Management)
• Ensure all changes to systems are recorded and properly executed with approval (Change Management)
• Review the performance of systems and plan for technological refresh and cater for future expansion (Capacity Management)
• Participate in Business Continuity Planning and DR strategy including documenting of DR procedures, and executing DR drills

Profil:

Organisational skills:

•  Acts as a subject matter expert and expertly articulates solutions through written or verbal methods
• Trouble shoots complex problems quickly and effectively
• Performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, evaluates alternatives including cost and risk, supportability and analyses for the systems
• Analyses are performed at all levels of total system product to include: concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal
• Ensures the logical and systematic conversion of product requirements into systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints resistance
• Performs functional analysis, timeline analysis, requirements allocation and interface definition studies to translate customer requirements into hardware and software specifications
• resistance to stress • respect for confidentiality • team spirit, sense of communication
• French and English are compulsory

Technical skills:

Mandatory:

• HP (EVAs, 3 PAR)
• Hitachi (VSPs, HUSVM)
• Experience with Brocade switch (DCXs) && Cisco SAN Switch configuration and support such as Virtual SAN, Fiber channel zoning, LUN masking, HBA configuration and tuning
• Tiering, deduplication, compression, thin prov, density IO, storage management, strong knowledge in replication, DRP, data retention, archiving etc

Desired:

• LINUX/UNIX
• Scripting skills (ksh, bach, perl, python)

Additional Information:

• Full time contract
• Start date: asap
• Languages: english and french (very good)

ADEM Réference: 549916