Storage Systems Engineer

• Systems Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and management of our enterprise storage and virtualization environment.
• This role focuses heavily on Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and SAN technologies, ensuring high availability and performance for critical data services.

Core Responsibilities

• Primary Storage Management: Act as the subject matter expert for our Isilon/PowerScale clusters, overseeing capacity reporting, performance tuning, and Zero Trust security protocols.
• SAN Operations: Manage and scale enterprise SAN storage arrays, including provisioning, LUN masking, and hardware lifecycle management.
• Fabric Engineering: Maintain and optimize the SAN Fiber Channel fabric, including switch configuration, zoning, and troubleshooting physical layer connectivity.
• Virtualization Support: Provide secondary administration for the VMware environment, ensuring seamless integration between compute clusters and backend storage.
• Data Protection: Oversee backup and recovery operations, utilizing enterprise tools to ensure data integrity and meeting strict RTO/RPO requirements.

• Expertise: Deep technical knowledge of OneFS, Isilon nodes, and enterprise-grade SAN arrays.
• Connectivity: Hands-on experience with Fiber Channel (FC) switches (Brocade) and complex zoning configurations.
• Virtualization: Proficiency in vSphere/ESXi management, specifically regarding storage multipathing and datastore optimization.
• Monitoring: Experience generating detailed capacity and health reports to drive infrastructure planning and budgeting.
• Preferred Experience
• Experience with Rubrik or similar Zero Trust data security platforms.
• Knowledge of automation/scripting for storage provisioning.
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g., Dell EMC Specialist, VCP).