Senior Storage Consultant

Job Title: Senior Storage Consultant

Location: Hamburg, Germany

Mode: Contract – initially for 6 months, possible extension.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Implement new solutions, updates, and improvements (SAN Switches, SAN Storage, Tooling, Certificates)
• Implement POCs to validate new features and tooling before production
• Write associate documentation for process and usage
• Implement hardware and software solutions not covered by 3rd party operational teams
• Architecture validation support
• Expertise on SAN Switches, 3PAR, Primera, Alletra configuration change
• Support external support provider teams (third party operational teams)
• Deep practical administrative knowledge of 3PAR/Primera/Alletra/Brocade on production customer environment, including tuning, optimizations, best practices, high availability configurations, migrations (Peer Motion on Storage, SAN Switch Technology Refresh, Software Solutions)
• Support obsolescence management (planning, architecture)
• Performance review of storage and switches; analyze performance and identify opportunities to improve KPIs and thresholds
• Implement QoS solutions; develop and present optimizations to operational teams
• Incident and problem management (complex incident analysis, root cause investigation)
• Incident creation to customer and support all teams involved
• Scope performance, outages, data access of all SAN Network and storage components
• Write operation technical documentation for support teams (best practices, alignment, validation)
• Deploy SAN switches and storage; configure specific tools
• Operational processes (monitoring, performance, fine tuning)
• Link to DC teams (network, DC…)
• Support purchaser project staff
• Capacity management: understand KPIs, present optimizations
• Align with HW vendor roadmap and internal customer project requests
• Implementation in DataCenter follow-up; provide reporting (performance and capacity)
• Creation/support of multi-sources reports for management, operational teams, architecture teams using SSMC, SANNav, Tableau, 3PAR/Primera/Alletra, Broadcom CLI/GUI, RestAPI for SAN products and CMDB
• Knowledge in ArxView from ArxScan, Tableau Server, Tableau Desktop

Required Technical Skills

• Basic knowledge of IRS, VMware, Hyper-V, Linux, Windows, Proliant, SSL certificates

Languages

Fluent English is mandatory. French and German are optional.

Seniority Level

Associate

Employment Type

Contract

Job Function

Information Technology and Engineering

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