Storage Architect, Atlanta,GA, 75k-135k + bonus, Permanent *Must have a Bachelors degree and be open to 100% travel during the week.A prestigious Professional Services Firm is actively seeking Storage Architects to add to their team of dynamic consultants.
Key Responsibilities may include:
Planning, managing and participating in the diagnosis (current state), detailed design (future state) and deployment of storage related processes and technologies including storage, backup/recovery and data management.
Identifying storage related business and technology requirements and validating that design results address them.
Identifying opportunities to drive more value from an organization's existing and planned storage investment through a combination of technical, operational and organizational initiatives.
Demonstrating high degree of hands on storage expertise to develop credibility with client stakeholders; ie being recognized as an expert in one more storage vendor's products/areas.
Demonstrating holistic data center technologies knowledge (eg server, network, applications, etc.) to improve end to end solutions.
Leading technology evaluation and selection efforts.
Basic Qualifications:
Minimum of 2 years of hands on experience with storage and backup I recovery technologies including Hardware Software (EMC/Network Appliance/Hitachi Data Systems/Sun Storagetek/IBM/or HP EVA or Storageworks) including administration and/or architecture.
Minimum of 2 years of experience in storage, backup, recovery, and/or data management.
Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree
Preferred Skills:
Architecting and implementing storage, backup/recovery and/or data management solutions.
Designing scalable storage and backup/recovery architectures for critical business systems.
Design and deployment of advanced computing and storage technologies, eg server virtualization, storage virtualization, etc.
Exposure to Hardware Platforms (UnixNVintel - HP/Sun/IBM etc.) and Operating Systems (Windows/Unix/Linux)
Some combination of the following skills:
o Designing/deploying Information Management Lifecycle solutions
o Data center (including application and data) migration/consolidation.
o Datacenter/Server/Network Operational Components (Monitoring, Management, etc.)
o IT1L concepts
o Application/Database rationalization design/implementation
0 Asset Management (Experience with tools/process)
Planning future storage capacity
Implementing disaster recovery processes and procedures
Maintaining problem tracking and resolution at a detailed level for service requests
Performance tuning of Servers and related systems
Writing scripts for automation of tasks
