SAN Engineer

SAN Engineer

Dallas, TX

Bill rate $65

Systems Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and management of our enterprise storage and virtualization environment. This role focuses heavily on Dell PowerScale (Isilon) and SAN technologies, ensuring high availability and performance for critical data services.

Core Responsibilities

Primary Storage Management: Act as the subject matter expert for our Isilon/PowerScale clusters, overseeing capacity reporting, performance tuning, and Zero Trust security protocols.

SAN Operations: Manage and scale enterprise SAN storage arrays, including provisioning, LUN masking, and hardware lifecycle management.

Fabric Engineering: Maintain and optimize the SAN Fiber Channel fabric, including switch configuration, zoning, and troubleshooting physical layer connectivity.

Virtualization Support: Provide secondary administration for the VMware environment, ensuring seamless integration between compute clusters and backend storage.

Data Protection: Oversee backup and recovery operations, utilizing enterprise tools to ensure data integrity and meeting strict RTO/RPO requirements.

Technical Qualifications

Expertise: Deep technical knowledge of OneFS, Isilon nodes, and enterprise-grade SAN arrays.

Connectivity: Hands-on experience with Fiber Channel (FC) switches (Brocade) and complex zoning configurations.

Virtualization: Proficiency in vSphere/ESXi management, specifically regarding storage multipathing and datastore optimization.

Monitoring: Experience generating detailed capacity and health reports to drive infrastructure planning and budgeting.

Preferred Experience

Experience with Rubrik or similar Zero Trust data security platforms.

Knowledge of automation/scripting for storage provisioning.

Relevant industry certifications (e.g., Dell EMC Specialist, VCP).