Senior Storage Engineer

Job Title : Senior Storage Engineer

Location : Walnut Creek, CA (LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY) Onsite ONLY

Contract Duration : 3-6 months

Must Have :

At least 10 years of experience

Strong experience in Nimble Storage (Now HPE Nimble Storage) and Cohesity

Storage Systems : Experience with SAN (Storage Area Networks), NAS (Network Attached Storage), and DAS (Direct Attached Storage).

Storage Protocols : Knowledge of Fiber Channel (FC), iSCSI, NFS, CIFS / SMB, and Object Storage (S3).

Storage Hardware & Vendors : Hands-on experience with technologies from vendors like NetApp, Dell EMC, Cohesity, HPE, etc.

Cloud Storage : Understanding of AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, and hybrid cloud storage integration.

• A plus

Storage Virtualization : Experience with VMware vSAN, IBM SVC, or other virtualization solutions.

Storage Performance Tuning : Understanding of RAID levels, SSD / HDD performance differences, IOPS, latency, and throughput optimization.

Capacity Planning & Monitoring : Familiarity with tools like Splunk, or vendor-specific monitoring solutions.

Data Security : Knowledge of encryption (at rest / in transit), access control, and storage security best practices.

Regulatory Compliance : Familiarity with HIPAA, GDPR, PCI-DSS, and other data protection standards.

Troubleshooting : Ability to diagnose storage performance issues and system failures.

Collaboration : Experience working with DevOps, Networking, and Security teams to design and implement storage solutions.

Project Management : Participation in storage migrations, upgrades, or disaster recovery planning