Storage Engineer

Company Description

CyNexLink provides information technology management services and support to organizations of all sizes. We offer attainable solutions to manage and operate IT infrastructure using our advanced IT service management capabilities, automated toolsets, and skilled technologists. We are excited to have experienced continuous growth and in keeping with that momentum are seeking to add a Storage Engineer to our talented team.

This is an amazing opportunity to work within one of the fastest growing industries. We are a company with a heart and soul dedicated to the ongoing success and growth of our employees and continued business success of the customers we support. While still a relatively small company, we foster a fun and connected environment with employee benefits and an invested culture of learning.

Responsibilities

• Support CyNexLink storage infrastructure by providing both remote and onsite support through a 24/7 on-call rotation to ensure high levels of storage uptime.
• Maintenance, troubleshooting, and support of EMC, NetAPP and other storage systems, to prevent productivity and data loss.
• Pro-actively monitor enterprise storage infrastructure health both physical and logically.
• Work closely with CyNexLink clients to troubleshoot and optimize their applications.
• Participate in development and improvement of storage architectural strategy, monitoring strategy, support strategy, and automation.
• Continual research of innovative technologies to find new and better ways to improve the storage service offerings.
• Document and keep current/accurate operational processes, procedures, and storage topology.

Requirements

• Experienced in the design, implementation, and troubleshooting of SAN, NAS, and converged systems in a large scale Multi-Petabyte storage infrastructure.
• You are proficient with standard storage protocols (NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, FC)
• Experience with SAN configuration and optimization (i.e.VNX/XtremeIO/NetApp/VMAX/HP 3PAR)
• Knowledgeable on storage network configuration and optimization (FC, iSCSI, FCOE, NDMP).
• Experience in large-scale SAN’s – Zoning, Trunks, LUN/volume management.
• Experience with NAS configuration and optimization (i.e.Isilon/NetApp)
• SMB versions 2.x, and 3.x,
• NFS versions 3, 4.x, pNFS
• NTFS and POSIX permissions and interaction
• Experience working with virtual machines and virtualized infrastructures. (i.e. VMWare, OpenStack, Containers)
• Proficient with a mainstream scripting language (Perl, Python, Ruby, PowerShell, Etc.)
• Familiarity with Object Storage Technology (i.e. ECS/SwiftStack/AWS)
• Familiarity with common SRM systems – experience preferred
• You understand and embrace the importance of communication and documentation.
• You care about your work, your colleagues, and your team.
• You are committed to excellence in customer service.

Pluses

• Experience with media asset management (MAM) and / or digital asset management (DAM)
• Experience with production/broadcast asset management (PAM) systems
• Working knowledge of Production/Post-Production data management, storage systems and workflows.
• Experience with Enterprise Backup Infrastructures
• You have a solid understanding of systems (Linux/Windows) and their interaction with storage.
• You have a degree in computer science or equivalent industry experience.
• You are familiar with ITIL principles.
• Dell Storage Certified
• Dell EMC Certified

Compensation

This position is on a per contract basis. Your compensation will vary from project to project depending on the length. The hourly rate is at $45/hr.

Job Type: Contract

Salary: $87,000.00 /year