Senior Storage Engineer

About us (Ensono)

Ensono is an expert technology adviser and managed service provider. As a relentless ally, we accelerate clients’ digital transformation to achieve business outcomes that stand to last. Our dedicated team helps organizations optimize today’s systems across any hybrid environment with services such as consulting, mainframe and application modernization, public cloud migration and cloud-native development. With certified experts in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud and recognized as Microsoft Datacenter Transformation Partner of the Year, Ensono has over 3500+ associates globally and is headquartered in greater Chicago.

We care about your success, offering comprehensive strategic and managed services for mission-critical applications. Our Advisory and Consulting services can help upfront with an application strategy or find the right places for your applications – whether it’s public, multi or hybrid cloud, or mainframe. And because we span across all mission-critical platforms, we can meet you wherever you are in your digital transformation journey, with 24/7 support when you need it. We are your relentless ally, flexing with you when challenges emerge so you don’t feel stuck in place. With cross-platform certifications and decades of experience, our technology experts have become an extension of your team so you’re continuously innovating – doing more with less while remaining secure. And that’s just the beginning.

Job Summary

Senior NAS Storage Engineer: The Senior Storage Engineer function ensures the stability, integrity, and efficient operation of NAS arrays, out-of-band managed storage arrays, as well as any array or appliance-based replication.

Job Responsibilities.

• Brings prior experience to organize and define work for complex or ambiguous situations • Resolves issues, manages workload, and balances priorities through frequent interruptions while meeting specific, time-sensitive deadlines
• Supports release and life cycle process for NAS storage array installs, upgrades, and decommissions
• Provides thought leadership for overall NAS Storage Array infrastructure support at the enterprise level
• Contributes to operational readiness of platforms with dedicated/shared teams and consults on resource and skills required, process documentation creation, updates to guidelines, policies, change, and audit procedures
• Participates in troubleshooting efforts for storage issues and leads in major incidents, root cause analysis, and performance analysis and tuning
• ITIL-compliant champion for incident, request, change, and with particular focus on problem management
• Partner with monitoring team to develop new event and performance monitors/alerts and analysis as needed for new and/or existing systems
• Participate in the modernization and automation of storage infrastructure
• Deployment of new storage infrastructure
• Maintain accurate CMDB Participates in problem management to proactively review open client and infrastructure problems and known errors to minimize the time spent firefighting and troubleshooting, supporting quicker resolution of incidents and events when they do arise Assist and provide technical input to Ensono storage solution architect and others on the complex solution design, configuration, integration, and installation of new services

Experience

Requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor degree; or 8 years and a Masters degree; or a PhD with 5 years’ experience; or equivalent work experience

Technical Skills (Mandatory Skills)

Netapp,

Good to have Skills:

Python, Ansible, Netapp Cloud Insight, Linux/Windows/Vmware, basic understanding of TCP/IP networks and firewalls.