Storage Engineer w/ C++ coding experience

Avance Consulting Services; Hopkinton (MA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A global IT consulting firm is seeking a Technical Lead / L3 Engineer located in Hopkinton, MA. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in storage engineering, with strong problem-solving skills and proficiency in C/C++. Responsibilities include troubleshooting storage issues, preparing technical root cause analyses, and delivering training. This is a contract position lasting 6-12 months, ideal for professionals with experience in managing critical storage applications and environments.

Qualifications

• Experience in Development and Escalation Engineering Storage domain.
• Experience as an Escalation Engineer for Midrange Product line.
• Extensive experience in troubleshooting and debugging issues.

Responsibilities

• Debugging customer SAN configuration issues on the VNX and Clariion arrays.
• Preparing and delivering technical RCA for escalation events.
• Tracking Data Unavailable incidents with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Storage knowledge

Problem solving skills

C++ knowledge

Windows or Linux knowledge

Debugging skills

Knowledge of virtualization concepts

Tools

Win debugger

Brocade B-Series switches

Cisco switches

Job description

Contract

Company Description

About Company :

A Global IT consulting firm with several large customer engagements across US. It provides strategic business consulting, technology,engineering and outsourcing services to help clients leverage technology and create impactful and measurable business value for every IT investment.

About Us :

Avance Consulting Services is a global talent acquisition and executive search company. We work exclusively with some of the most reputed and admired clients across various sectors and geographies. This is a very urgent role. Apply NOW with your updated resume in word format. All selected profiles will be contacted within 1 day of application receipt.

Job Description

Title: Technical Lead / L3 Engineer

Location - Hopkinton, MA

Duration: 6-12+ Months contract

Job Description:

• Experience in Development and Escalation Engineering Storage domain
• Working as an Escalation Engineer for Midrange Product line of EMC [AX, Clariion, VNX and VNX2].
• L3 engineering support experience....people who have worked on some maintenance \bugfixing work
• Storage knowledge, windows or Linux knowledge...and good problem solving skills....ability to read C++ code to RCA customer issue
• Extensive experience in troubleshooting, triaging, debugging, lab reproductions and resolution of issues that are escalated from the field, technical support organizations and the customer support engineering teams.
• Practical experience of troubleshooting beyond-the-box e.g. debugging customer SAN configuration issues (FC, iSCSI. FCoE), analyzing switch Logs (Brocade B-Series and Cisco switches)
• Preparing and delivering the technical RCA for assigned escalation events to the support organization.
• Well versed with crash dump debugging using Win debugger on the Windows OS and escalating potential bugs in the code to the software development organization, suggesting enhancements for the existing code as necessary.
• Imparting periodic training on technology and new product launches to team members, publishing internal technical knowledge base documents on bugs found, product features, storage technologies and protocols.
• Awareness of Virtualization concepts

Key Assignments

• Recovery of the Midrange arrays from Data Unavailable situations. These are typically mission critical storage applications and such recoveries demand thorough knowledge of the operating system software as well as the hardware it interacts with. We use proprietary kernel traces within the Flare OS to debug such problems.
• Debugging customer SAN configuration issues (FC, iSCSI. FCoE) on the VNX and Clariion arrays, reviewing the SAN layout and understanding how the various array ports/devices are set up in the incident being investigated, in-house error reproduction efforts by setting up test beds for execution of tests, setting up debug equipment, reviewing source code and capturing traces from various software/hardware sub-components, analyzing the kernel/trace data and ensuring resolution.
• Tracking and recording of every single Data Unavailable incident that has been escalated into the EE organization and hosting daily meetings with cross-functional teams in order to discuss these incidents and investigate means to improve product quality.

Languages and Technologies:

C, C++ , Perl and FC, iSCSI, familiar with TCP/IP, FCoE and SAS, replication, concepts of storage tiering and RAID configuration.

Qualifications

C, C++ , Perl and FC, iSCSI, familiar with TCP/IP, FCoE and SAS, replication, concepts of storage tiering and RAID configuration.

Additional Information

We are looking for Storage admin with Programming experience