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Hi,

My name is SRIKANTH.S . IT RECRUITER with SVK Systems INC.

Primary skill set:  Experience with IBM and/or Hitachi Storage Systems in a Solaris/ Linux RedHat environment.

Interview Process:  We can hire from a skype interview

We are seeking a SAN Engineer for a long term (4+ year) opportunity supporting a federal government client in downtown Washington DC. 

All candidates MUST be able to pass a criminal and financial background check.

Responsibilities:

• Supervises and manages the daily activities of configuration and operation of business systems which may be mainframe, mini, or client/server based. Optimizes system operation and resource utilization, and performs system capacity analysis and planning. Provides assistance to users in accessing and using business systems.
• Responsible for testing, maintaining, and troubleshooting SAN hardware and software across the Unix, Windows, Sun and VMware operating systems.
• Responsible for insuring the correct installation, setup, security, operation and maintenance of various SAN devices which includes USPVM, HUS150, AMS2500, HUSVM and AMS1000.
• Need to have Red hat 5 and  Solaris 10 systems administration knowledge
• Experience with  VERITAS Cluster Server, VERITAS Storage foundation and other High Availability techniques in the UNIX environment
• Have knowledge on SAN based environment and ability to allocate LUNS and create file systems
• Have knowledge and experience  on  VERITAS NetBackup products and solutions
• Provide full lifecycle storage area network (SAN) administration, architecture, and support including storage utilizations/capacity planning and adjusting storage requirements.
• Responsible for the installation, setup, technical operation and system administration of enterprise storage and backup systems.
• Performs data migration tasks from direct attached storage and within SAN environments.
• Responsible for all designs modifications and changes to the SAN infrastructure and ensure proper change control is followed for implementation and documentation of all configuration changes.
• Performs daily enterprise storage area networks activities including management, zoning, and provisioning, troubleshooting, debugging and capacity monitoring.
• Provide proactive monitoring and analysis and provide status reporting on availability, performance, and capacity utilization. Develop plans & recommendations to proactively address performance and capacity issues.
• Uses storage management tools to discover, monitor, provision and report on the storage infrastructure. Participates in root cause analysis for significant problems and suggests clear recommendations for improvements.
• Builds partnerships with project teams and works closely with internal and external customers and vendors to provide detailed analysis and trending of storage usage, ensuring that support expectations are maintained/exceeded including planning of new or upgraded SAN and storage equipment.
• Identify opportunities for automation and streamlining of system administration tasks.
• Evaluates new technologies and architecting solutions.
• Investigate new technologies, tools and methodologies to improve system stability and reliability, and advance systems administration procedures across all teams.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to defining and improving procedures in the areas of Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Backups, Systems Management, Monitoring and Systems Administration/Security, Build Standards and Server Build Automation.
• Participation in an on call rotation, which requires nights and weekend work as necessary.
• Participates with the client in the strategic design process to translate business requirements into technical designs that meet the operational requirements.
• Receives assignments in the form of objectives and establishes goals to meet outlined objectives. Work is reviewed by management to measure meeting objectives and schedules. May provide guidance to others to achieve goals in accordance with established policies. Works on problems of broad scope where analysis of data requires an evaluation of various factors. Exercises independent judgment within defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques and criteria for obtaining results.
•  Ensures project schedules, and performance requirements are met.
• Contributes to the development of the organization's goals and objectives. Decisions or failure to achieve results may cause delays in schedules. Frequently interacts with customers and functional peer groups. Interaction normally requires the ability to gain cooperation of others, oversee production, and maintain work schedules.
• Having knowledge and experience, able to handle seldom and unusual occurring job events. May determine methods and procedures on new assignments and provide guidance to non-exempt personnel. Knowledge of assigned product(s), company functions, service policies and procedures and good communication skills.

Excellent analytical and problem solving skills coupled with a strong interest in Systems and Network management to include, but not limited to the following:

• Solaris 10 systems administration experience with Solaris Zones and Containers
• Linux RedHat v 4,5 systems administration experience
• Backup performance monitoring and troubleshooting
• Knowledge and experience with ILM, Storage Tiering, and Virtualization is a plus
• OS troubleshooting and patching
• Performance tuning and Capacity Planning
• Experience in mentoring and training peers
• Experience in dealing successfully with business partners, customers, peers, management, and vendors
• Ability to capture knowledge and document it using organized methodologies.
• Experience developing, communicating, and implementing projects of any scope.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline. This position requires a minimum of four years' experience, of which at least three years must be specialized experience in administrating computer systems. General experience includes operations experience on a large-scale computer system or a multi-server local area network.

1.         With a Master's Degree (in the fields described in B above): three years general experience of which at least two years must be specialized experience is required.

2.         With eight years general experience of which six years is specialized, a degree is not required.

• 5+ years of experience on SAN administration support for large scale complex UNIX, Windows and VMware environments.
•  The SAN engineer must be able to design a SAN that will host several systems' data separately and allow access for multiple clients to access, retrieve and manipulate data stored on the SAN.
•  Additionally the candidate must be familiar with database read, write and retrieval; virtualization, switch technology, bus speeds and backplane interfaces.
• The candidate must have a strong knowledge in Netbackup and backup solutions would be an added advantage.
• Hands-on experience and expertise designing and administering Storage solutions running business critical solutions
• Hands on experience and expertise in managing USPVM, HUS150, AMS2500, HUSVM and AMS1000 devices.
• Hands-on experience with Cisco Switches in regards to basic configuration
• Understanding of LACP & NIC Bonding, VLANs, sub-netting
• Excellent troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Understanding of Fiber Channel, iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS, FCoE, NDMP
• Hands-on experience in COW technology and snapshots
• Fundamental knowledge and experience with Brocade FC switches, and Cisco FCoE design
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) skills in preparing proposals, reports, presentations and documentation.
• The ability to manage multiple projects with overlapping priorities and concurrent customer commitments
• The adaptability to effectively deliver against varying expectations across all IT Systems.
• Ability to verbally translate and articulate complex technical issues for the advocacy of non-technical users.
• Fundamental understanding of VMware networking and administration
• Proficiency with Solaris, VMware and Red hat Linux

OTHER DESIRED SKILLS:

• Experience with Solaris v10/11, Redhat Linux v5/6 and Windows Server (2003, 2008) Systems
• Experience with Vmware ESX v5/v5.5
• Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas FileSystem
• Backup and Restore operations using Veritas NetBackup
• Disk-Based backup products such as ExaGrid or Data Domain with deduplication
• IBM, Quantum or StorageTek Tabe Library Systems
• Hitachi Data Systems Storage Arrays (AMS1000, AMS2500, USP, USPVM. HUS, HUSVM)
• Hitachi Data Systems Software Products (TrueCopy, Shadow Image, Copy on Write, Universal Replicator, Device Manager)
• Brocade Fabric Switches, Zone Creation, Aliases, ISL's
• HP Storage Essentials or comparable Storage Monitoring/Reporting Tool
• Microsoft Office Applications (Visio, Word and Excel)

Other Special Requirements:

Candidate should be available for rotating on call after hours/ weekend/ holiday support

Thanks & Regards

SRIKANTH

IT Recruiter.

SVK Systems INC.

Direct : 678-387-2924 | Email id : srikanth.s@svksystems.com

Find us in Web: http://www.svksystems.com/