IT Systems Engineer

Clarity Partners is seeking an onsite IT Systems Engineer local to Joliet, IL to support storage hosting and cloud technical operations. This is a large-scale client project and the position will be responsible to provide IT teams and business personnel with technology solutions by weighing advantages of technology standards, market availability of products, and risks and benefits of technology to meet business/IT needs.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze complex hardware and software issues associated with storage related technologies, including Netapp, Dell/EMC SAN, Azure Netapp Files and Fiber Channel Switch management.
• Analyze complex hardware and software issues associated with complex storage platforms including EMC, NetApp, and others.
• Configure and maintain Dell EMC Data domain and Veritas Netbackup.
• Maintain and monitor Wintel, Linux and VMware platform health and performance from a storage perspective.
• Maintain storage inventory information to ensure accuracy of configuration management DB.
• Support the production release management system for documenting, planning, and implementing IT changes.
• Plan, coordinate, communicate and implement security patching activities for Linux server platforms.
• Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes.
• Assist in racking and stacking of storage devices in client's datacenters.
• Provide 24x7 support and participate in on call rotation for critical production systems.
• Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours.
• Provide technical expertise and/or solution delivery support for maintaining performance and reliability of server solutions.
• Maintain and enhance engagement with business and IT partners to sustain service levels and high availability of server compute services. Visible and accessible to clients providing guidance for how to successfully request new devices as needed.
• Build and maintains knowledge of new technologies or technology opportunities for on-prem and Cloud based services.
• Assists in coordinating and implementing planned infrastructure changes for business and/or IT clients.
• Ensures proper implementation of technology both within the production and the development environments.

Requirements

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree (Computer Science or related field) and 5-7 years relevant experience (IT infrastructure support, application support, cloud computing, disaster/recovery) or 6-9 years of relevant work experience.
• Demonstrated proficiency in at least one operational domain such as storage, compute, database, collaboration, application support, [cloud hosting and related technologies].
• Ability to lift up to 25lbs to rack servers with assistance and use of server lifts as needed.
• Ability to travel domestically.
• 24/7 on-call rotational duties.
• Experience administrating servers and storage on-prem (physical and virtual) and in Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Experience with Windows Server 2016-2022, HPE ProLiant Hardware, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Solaris, Exadata hardware is helpful.
• Experience with scripting language such as Python, Shell.
• Zerto experience.
• Certifications such as Azure Administrator, Oracle Cloud Administrator, VMware, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server is preferred.