Position Title – WR714111
Lead Storage Eng. – EMC – Clarion – Celera – NetApps – FS – Marlboro, MA Area – Outstanding Package
Outstanding Compensation Package – Base + Bonus + PS
Local Candidates Only – No Sponsorship
Company
Large, successful, and growing Boston based Investment Management Firm –
Great Company – Lots of Upside – Excellent Compensation Package – Bonus –
Profit Sharing etc. Join a team oriented, collaborative, results focused
environment and become part of an elite organization with great growth
possibilities.
Position Responsibilities – Summary
This individual, as part of the Production Support team within Enterprise
Technology Services will provide 24X7 production support for the firm’s
global storage infrastructure. The candidate must possess technical depth
and breadth, should have a “can do” hands-on orientation and be able to
function both independently and as a member of a team.
The right candidate should have extensive technical experience in managing
enterprise storage networks (including storage architecture,
provisioning/de-provisioning, production support, automation and monitoring)
with strong technical leadership, analytical, troubleshooting, communication
and decision-making skills.
This role will report to the manager of the production support team.
Detailed Responsibilities;
· Responsible for the outcome of enabling “business as usual”
through:
o 1. Continuous availability and operational resiliency of Storage
infrastructure components
o 2. Minimize risk(s)/issue(s) through oversight and delivery of
people, process and technology services
· Perform 24X7 production support (on-call rotation) for the storage
infrastructure.
· Lead & manage incident bridges, take ownership of issues,
collaborate with other teams on remediation and manage them through
completion
· Diagnose and resolve storage performance anomalies
· Develop storage capacity Planning, forecasting & usage trend
Reporting
· Develop and execute storage high availability and disaster
recovery plans
· Work with application and infrastructure teams to design,
implement and follow proactive processes for allocation and de-allocation of
storage resources
· Work with planning, engineering, delivery and operations teams to
coordinate project activities, support issues and to evolve the resiliency
and technical capabilities of the storage infrastructure. Communicating
issues and status to senior management in the form of status reports,
briefings, and presentations.
· Work with Data Center management teams on storage equipment
migrations
· Understand business priorities/needs, the IT organization’s goals
and enable alignment of the team’s operating model, processes and systems to
meet stated objectives and outcomes.
· Providing vision, direction, definition of team
activities/priorities and impactful technology and thought
leadership/expertise for the Storage team initiatives
· Development of strategy and plans for systems production
readiness, security/audit, monitoring for continued operability in a 24×7
environment, adherence to system standards and oversee the development of
automated storage system provisioning and operational tools/capabilities.
· Function as a “mentor” for the team and empower employees by
dissemination of personal knowledge, perspective(s) and experience(s)
· Foster a positive culture of creativity, innovation and continuous
improvements of our services and operational capabilities
Keys to This Position:
1. This is a Lead Storage Engineer that will be responsible for everyday
Execution, Delivery and Operations of the Storage Environment.
2. This individual will be at the Technical Lead level and will manage 1 or
2 staff members.
3. Technical: This is a technically hands on role that requires experience
in environments with the following technologies:
EMC DMX4, DMX 3000, Clariion (CX3, CX4 and CX7), Celera (NS2, NS4 and NS7
series) and NetApp (FAS2 and F825 series filers) platforms
Individual needs to come out of a larger, complicated, 24X7 Mission Critical
Production Environment – Financial Services Industry Background Required.
Required Skills and Competencies:
· 8+ years experience as a technical contributor in storage teams
supporting global 24×7 distributed multi-technology/multi-location storage
environments
· Hands-on experience in environments with the following
technologies:
· EMC DMX4, DMX 3000, Clariion (CX3, CX4 and CX7), Celera (NS2, NS4
and NS7 series) and NetApp (FAS2 and F825 series filers) platforms
· Cisco 9513, McData ED64M, DS32M and DS4700M SAN Switches
· F5 Acopia ARX 1000 NAS virtualization switches
· SAN and NAS management tools – Solutions Enabler, EMC Control
Center ver 5.x, Cisco Fabric Manager, Connectrix Fabric Manager, Navisphere
Clariion Storage management tool, Navi Analyzer, Celerra Manager, Data On
Tap (NetApp) and Acopia ARX Manager
· Veritas storage foundation suite
· Virtualization with VMWare and SRDF based replication solutions
· Functional understanding of Solaris/Linux, Oracle databases,
Weblogic application servers and MQ messaging
· Ability to function/lead autonomously in a collaborative culture
with focus on business outcome(s), impact to the firm and client service
orientation
· Experience in leading, delegation and also having the technical
expertise to get “hand-on” involved as/when the need arises.
· A personal style, commitment and communication ability that allows
you to partner with IS peers and teams to work productively and efficiently.
· Strong delivery/operations leadership, change agent, motivation to
take on and lead new initiatives and willingness to learn and grow self (in
areas of technical and management skills)
· Good understanding of the financial services industry, business priorities/workflow and it’s associated IT storage infrastructure, system
and application needs
· Advanced degree in Computer Science or related discipline
Compensation
Very Competitive Base Salary + Profit Sharing + Bonus – Comprehensive
Benefits Package
No Sponsorship Available – Local Candidates Only
Contact Information
Gary Wright – President – Wright Associates
Phone – (508) 761-6354 – Email – replywrightassociates@verizon.net – WEB
Site – www.wrightassociates.org
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