Senior Migration Engineer - Storage

Job Summary

Storage Migration Engineer L3:

The Storage Migration Engineer function ensures success in the migration of workloads between storage architectures and locations. This incorporates elements of technical planning, stakeholder management, documentation and communication.

Role Descriptions

Duties and Responsibilities of the Storage Migration Engineer L3 function:

• Work closely with project management to plan and co-ordinate order of execution for storage migration activity at scale
• Contribute significantly to schedule alignment and determining order of operations to meet business stakeholder requirements as well as core timelines to meet operational lifecycle commitments
• Engage with business stakeholders, and drive conversations related to risk concerns, activity timing and coordinating conflicting priorities across multiple stakeholders
• Define, validate and maintain currency on migration strategies
• Mentor, coach and educate L2 migration engineers
• Supply expertise and experience on complex migrations, as well as determine best-case strategy for non standard requirements when relevant
• Compile feedback to drive continuous process improvement for storage migration strategy
• Document and test robust rollback procedures and handling to ensure zero business impact and successful change execution
• Complete execution in agreed business downtime windows
• Roster scheduling to support working outside of core US business and daytime hours, with a focus on weekend change execution.
• Technologies cover multiple storage vendors, with Hitachi, NetApp and EMC most significant.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and tools in storage migration, applying this knowledge to drive innovation within the organization.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

Qualifications:

Requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor degree; or 7 years and a Masters degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience; or equivalent work experience.

Platforms experience desired:

Hitachi Storage, EMC, NetApp, IBM, Pure, Brocade

Other skills desired:

Linux/Windows/Vmware, basic understanding of TCP/IP networks and firewalls.

Ensono is a global service provider with over 2,600 associates and 10 data centers located around the world.