IBM SAN Engineer

Role:

IBM SAN Engineer

Location:

Minneapolis, MN

Duration: 7+ Months

Top Three Skills:

1. 5+ years as an enterprise Storage Engineer
2. 3+ years of IBM SAN experience
3. Background with Hitachi is a bonus

Job Description:
The Storage Engineer is responsible for the provisioning and support of Hitachi and IBM storage infrastructures. This position will work both independently and
Interdependently on a variety of projects and support tasks.
This role's primary responsibility is to ensure that production systems are available 24 x 7, and will Perform appropriate maintenance and corrective actions in that environment.
This position will also interact with development groups, end users, business partners and all relevant parties involved in this environment.
Daily Responsibilities:

Ensure the integrity and availability of the Hitachi and IBM SAN storage infrastructures on a day to day basis
Perform administration and troubleshooting activities
Understand the business criticality of all components of the system environment
Implement changes into the production environment following change control methodology
Conduct technical design and reviews based on architectural guidance
Provide 24 x 7 on-call support on a scheduled basis for the SAN infrastructures
Plan system upgrades and updates, work with other IT and business stakeholders to complete activities
Assist with efforts to drive change in the environment including articulating the business case, cost/benefit analysis, vendor analysis and detailed implementation plans
Work closely with application areas to understand their existing needs and future requirements and include those needs in infrastructure plans.
Other duties as assigned
Position Requirements:

Ability to take 24x7 critical incident on-call duties when assigned
After-hours support and implementation work may be required for critical incidents