Senior Hitachi Storage Technical Consulant

ettain group; Addison (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

ettain group is seeking a Senior Hitachi Storage Technical Consultant in Addison, Texas. This full-time role involves designing, implementing, and managing storage infrastructures for a globally known retail company. Candidates should have extensive experience with Hitachi and 3Par technologies and be capable of troubleshooting and maintaining mission-critical systems.

The position requires collaboration with various teams and strong communication skills. A Bachelor's degree in IT or equivalent experience is required. This is a contract-to-hire opportunity, with a pathway to a lead architect role.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of data protection and backup technologies.
• Capable of providing 7x24 on-call support and troubleshooting.
• Excellent relationship and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Storage design, implementation, and administration support.
• Backup design, implementation, and administration support.
• Maintain technical documentation, standards, and procedures.

Skills

Storage infrastructure design

Hitachi VSP/HUS-VM/USP/AMS systems

SAN/NAS technology

Backup infrastructure design

UNIX/Linux experience

Networking and TCP/IP

Programming/scripting proficiency

Education

BS or BA in Information Technology or equivalent experience

Tools

Symantec NetBackup

DataDomain appliances

Quantum Scalar tape libraries

Job description

Senior Hitachi Storage Technical Consultant

• Full-time

This is for a large globally known retail company in Addison, Tx.

Specific Skill Set Requirements

• Designing, implementation and administration of storage infrastructure
• Designing, implementing, and managing a Fabric switched (Brocade) environment
• Architectural level experience with Hitachi VSP/HUS-VM/USP/AMS storage systems and their software suites
• Architectural level experience with HP/3Par E/F/T/V/HP10K storage systems and their software suites
• Architectural level experience with SAN/NAS technology features:
  • Snapshots
  • Thin-provisioning
  • VM integration
• Backup infrastructure design, implementation and administration including:
  • Managing a Symantec NetBackup 6.X/7.X environment including:
    • Vault
    • OpsCenter
    • Storage Lifecycle Policies
    • OST
• Installation, configuration and support of Microsoft Clusters (2003/2008)
• Performance analysis and tuning
• Projects coordination, implementation and management
• Programming and/or scripting proficiency
• Experience with UNIX/Linux
• DFS (Windows) deployment and administration
• Experience with networking, routing, TCP/IP
• Capable of providing 7x24 on-call support and troubleshooting

This is a Technical Consultant role with extensive knowledge of data protection and backup technologies. To be considered, candidates must demonstrate a passion for supporting and maintaining mission-critical systems and the infrastructure that hosts them, and be capable of maintaining a calm and cooperative demeanor in high-pressure situations. Candidates must also possess excellent relationship building and communication skills.

What Exactly This Individual Will Be Working On

• Storage design, implementation and administration support
• Backup design, implementation and administration support
• Authors and maintains technical documentation, standards and procedures, and architectural diagrams
• Creates presentations and writes business justifications to support technical recommendations

Storage and Backup design, implementation and high-level supporting of the various application teams attached to the SAN in different locations. The storage environment currently includes 3Par and Hitachi technologies. The backup environment currently includes Symantec NetBackup software suite, Symantec NetBackup Appliances, DataDomain appliances, and Quantum Scalar tape libraries. The individual will be responsible for provisioning, upgrading/patching different versions of storage related drivers and firmware, troubleshooting performance issues, backup/recovery, and automating daily activities around the storage and backup environment.

Education Requirements

BS or BA with an emphasis on Information Technology, or equivalent experience.

Certification(s)

None

3 Months Contract to Hire

This company eventually wants this person to become a lead architect.