Off hour and weekend work will be required. Consultant is expected to take time off during the week where appropriate. May be required to work a Tues - Sat work week.Responsibilities:SAN provisioning Setup and maintain replication and cloning, including basic Scripting SAN switch management and configurationHost configuration needed to access provisioned storageMigration of data to new arraysMaintain documentation of storage allocations for all arraysTroubleshoot SAN connectivity issuesRequirements:Comprehensive understanding of the various storage frame offerings from:EMCHDSNetAppComprehensive understanding of the software components, including management, replication, snapshots, etc, for the vendors listed aboveStrong applied experience with all or most of the following storage related technologies:Cisco MDS Director Class SwitchesReplication and CloningMulitpathing Volume managersTiered StorageRAID LevelsExperience with change management practices.Good SAN troubleshooting skills from host through to disk arrayExperience configuring Fibre Channel Directors and Switches, such as Brocade and Cisco.Experience with HBA installation, configuration and troubleshooting.In-depth understanding of the Fibre Channel protocolGeneral understanding of remote replication techniques and their associated tools.Experience with NAS, including CIFS and NFS sharing architectures. Background in large-scale Unix and Windows environments with a strong concentration in Linux. Ability to read and program in Perl strongly desired Bachelors in Computer Science or related field To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here