Our Client located in the CHICAGOLAND SUBURBS, currently seeks a STORAGE SYSTEMS ENGINEER with sound NetApp experience. This is a 6 months + project engagement with probable extenstions.


Travel:
Up to 60%

Job Description:
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The incumbent of this role will:
. Design, implement, administer and support storage solutions, focused in the Network Appliance/IBM N Series arena.
. Provide direct technical support for the planning, coordination, and implementation of releases, upgrades, or changes to storage systems and the range of products and productivity tools that support the testing and production of those storage systems.
. Ensures stable performance for the storage environment through performance monitoring and tuning.
. Perform capacity planning, workload modeling, and prediction. Ensures systems maintenance of storage and related systems.
. Develop an understanding of clients' environment and consistently cross-sells Berbee services.
. Assist with pre-sales process and develops proposals and technical documentation.
. Provide onsite customer training as needed.
. Provide billable engineering services at client locations to fulfill contract specifications.
. Instruct, help develop, and mentor less-seasoned technical staff when appropriate.
. Plan, coordinate, and implement storage systems and related software.
. Plan and implement system upgrades, ensuring change management procedures and methodologies are implemented and followed.
. Recommend purchase of products or services necessary to support the test and production operating environments.
. Monitor multiple project priorities and ensures that appropriate management is apprised of the operation status of projects.
. Provide business and technical consultation and support to clients, project managers, product developers, users and other technical units.
. Develop and complete an education plan to grow skills consistent with client needs

Qualifications:
. In-depth understanding of NetApp products and architectures
. knowledge of general storage technologies: SAN, NAS, DAS, FC; prior experience or familiarity with alternative storage products is desirable
. Solid understanding of networking and distributed computing concepts, including principles of network-routing client/server applications
. Solid understanding of NFS, CIFS, FibreChannel administration in a NetApp Environment
. Knowledge of Distributed File Systems (DFS) beneficial.
. Storage Management: Tivoli Storage Manager or Veritas NetBackup experience helpful. OS software: Proficiency in at least one Unix or Intel operating system and Windows 2003 required. AIX and Windows certifications a plus.
. SAN: Experience with Brocade, Cisco, or McData-based SAN fabrics required.
. Knowledge of IBM or EMC disk subsystems required, knowledge of HP/Dell storage is desired. Experience with scripting to customize functionality of storage subsystems a plus.
. Solid understanding of networking and distributed computing concepts, including the principles of network routing and client/server programming.
. Ability to provide customer based training when needed.
. Ability to effectively adapt to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs.
. Ability to assist with network and application troubleshooting; provide technical consulting support to software development staff.
. Up to 60% overnight travel.


REPLY TO:

mcgstb
@netscape.net



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Location: CHICAGOLAND SUBURBS, ILLINOIS
Compensation: RATE: OPEN

Experience: REPLY TO:

mcgstb
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