Storage Engineer

Role - Storage Engineer

Location - 100% Remote

Rate - $63/hr on W2

🔹Job Requirements:

• 5+ years of dedicated enterprise storage engineering experience, with at least 3+ years specifically focused on Dell EMC platforms.
• Dell EMC NAS Expertise: Deep technical knowledge of PowerScale/Isilon (OneFS) architecture. • Experience with SmartPools, SmartQuotas, SyncIQ, InsightIQ, and DataIQ.
• Object Storage Expertise: Proven experience deploying and managing Dell EMC ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage). Strong understanding of object-based architectures, buckets, namespaces, and geo-replication.

🔹Protocol Proficiency: Advanced understanding of file and object protocols, including NFS (v3/v4), SMB/CIFS, and S3 API.
• Networking & Systems: Strong grasp of storage networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, VLANs, LACP) and directory services integration (Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos).

• Analytical Skills: Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze complex system logs and performance metrics.

🔹 Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with other Dell EMC storage arrays (PowerMax, VPLEX) or SAN switches (Brocade, Cisco MDS).
• Familiarity with hybrid-cloud storage tiering (e.g., CloudPools tiering to AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform).
• Scripting proficiency in Python, PowerShell, or Bash.