Storage Engineer

Job description

Job Description

Storage Engineer

Position Description
Storage Engineer - SME
We are looking for a self-motivated, career driven, ambitious candidate, experienced in IT systems engineering with good communication skills and strong drive to deliver results. You are driven to find solutions to problems by taking a big picture perspective and will work across different teams and disciplines in order to get things done. You have a passion for system reliability and take an automation first approach to routine tasks.

Your future duties and responsibilities
• Serve as the subject matter expert for all storage systems
• Build and maintain a holistic understanding of services in the environment and how they interact with each other
• Escalation point for complex production-impacting incidents and problems
• Assist architects with design and implementation of new systems
• Performance and capacity analysis, planning and reporting
• Reduce repetitive manual tasks through automation
• Create and maintain operational documentation as related to storage administration
• Participate in and lead post incident reviews when required

Required qualifications to be successful in this role
Experience and Education:
• University degree or college diploma in a relevant field and/or work experience and related certifications (e.g. CCNA, MCSA, etc)
• Experience with some or all of the following:
o Experience installing, configuring and administering NAS systems, specifically NetApp
o Storage array installation, configuration and administration with NetApp and HDS
o Brocade and/or Cisco SAN switch installation/configuration/administration
o Experience configuring fiber channel, iSCSI and FCOE storage switches and connectivity
o Performance and capacity management, monitoring and alerting
o Storage and host performance tuning
o Automation of routine tasks using CLI or API
o Allocating SAN and NAS storage
o Data migration experience
o Experience configuring inter-datacenter replication solutions (NetApp and Hitachi HUR preferred)
o Designing storage systems for maximum availability and reliability
o Linux system administration an asset
o Understanding of high availability cluster technology
o Understanding of Netbackup Enterprise backup systems
o Sound understanding of datacenter operational processes
o Understanding of network switches, firewalls, and load balancers an asset.
o Understanding of virtualization systems (hypervisors) such as VMware vSphere, Oracle Virtual Systems, KVM, etc.
o Windows 2016 and up system administration an asset
o Experience with public cloud (AWS, Azure, OCI, etc) use, administration and architecture an asset.

Other qualities:
• Able to work well independently and within a small team.
• Able to investigate and resolve complex technical problems.
• Able to perform performance and capacity analysis, planning and document recommendations based on the results
• Able to communicate with team leads, vendors, customer application developers.
• Experience providing IT Administration support in a Production environment.
• Good judgment and innovative problem-solving skills.
• Ability to deal with aggressive timelines and the associated pressure.
• Experience using a ticket management system such as Service Now.
• Able to write clear and concise documentation for operational processes

Build your career with us.

It is an extraordinary time to be in business. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, CGI is at the center of this change—supporting our clients’ digital journeys and offering our professionals exciting career opportunities.

At CGI, our success comes from the talent and commitment of our professionals. As one team, we share the challenges and rewards that come from growing our company, which reinforces our culture of ownership. All of our professionals benefit from the value we collectively create.

Be part of building one of the largest independent technology and business services firms in the world.

Learn more about CGI at www.cgi.com.

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CGI is an equal opportunity employer. In addition, CGI is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities in accordance with provincial legislation. Please let us know if you require a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.

Skills

·  Network

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