Sr. Systems Engineer (Storage and Backup)

Job Title

Sr. Systems Engineer (Storage and Backup)

Location

5 Days onsite in Rocklin

Team Overview

You will be a part of the Technical Solutions Services team. The role of a Senior Storage & Backup Engineer is to design, implement, manage and maintain storage solutions in Williams-Sonoma Inc. You will be providing Level 3 support to Storage and Backup environment. You will provide administration and engineering support on multiple OS platforms in a multi-vendor environment, while working closely with architecture, application development, database, server and networking teams. In addition, you will continuously participate in developing, defining and simplifying processes to improve services. For new initiatives or critical upgrades, you will work closely with Business / Application Development & Engineering teams during project analysis and design phases and with the Operations team during the implementation and post go-live support.

Project Description

Duties / Day to Day Overview

• Design, implement, manage, and maintain storage solutions
• Leads and participate in installation and configuration activities of storage and backup systems.
• Provision and decommission storage in accordance with documented procedures
• Managing and troubleshooting NFS exports and CIFS Shares
• Supports resolution of production support incidents
• Troubleshoots issues across development, test and production systems
• Routinely monitors all systems within the storage and backup domain
• Performs systems resource optimization activities
• Participates in systems management, and security compliance activities
• Oversees monitoring, system access and configuration management
• Understanding of application / database design & integration with storage systems
• Identifies automation opportunities by communicating and collaborating with the team
• Researches and recommends automation and monitoring tools
• Develops and maintains procedures and storage system documentation
• Create Knowledge Base articles of operational tasks to streamline support and empower first and second level support to resolve issues
• Document the design, operation and troubleshooting of technology platforms and procedures
• Automate repeatable task using scripting & Ansible
• Research new technologies and processes
• Participates in On-Call rotation support

Top Requirements

(Must haves)

Additional Qualifications

(Nice to Haves)

We are looking for a storage engineer who has minimum seven years of experience on storage and backup technology and it should be last 7 years.

Candidates should be able to demonstrate that they are working on storage and backup systems in production environment.

Candidate must demonstrate strong knowledge on at least three of the products listed here : NetApp All flash unified storage, IBM All Flash, Brocade, Rubrik, EMC Isilon & NetApp Storage Grid.

Automation skills will be a plus. (Python, PowerShell etc.)