Description
This Senior Systems Engineer position is within the Storage Engineering Team and falls under Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). You will build, test, and document new storage and backup infrastructure, as well as serve as a Level 3 escalation point for existing storage and backup infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- Implement, secure, and automate Storage, Backups, and SAN infrastructure based on business requirements.
- Handle complex provisioning, API-first automation, advanced maintenance, data replication, disaster recovery, data migration, and documentation for Open Systems Storage and Backup environments.
- Provide technical expertise to support complex Storage & Backup devices, including SAN, NAS, Object, and Backup solutions.
- Operate in complex, highly secure, highly available datacenter and public/hybrid cloud environments.
- Assist in security remediation of known vulnerabilities for Visa's Open Systems Storage ecosystem.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science/engineering or related field.
- 4-8 years of experience working in SAN / Storage / Backup administration.
- Experience working in large, complex, enterprise datacenter environments.
- Knowledge in deploying and supporting SAN, NAS, Object/S3 Storage, and Backup solutions in a hybrid cloud model.
- Extensive storage networking background.
- Preferred knowledge of OS fundamentals for Linux and/or Microsoft platforms.
- Preferred knowledge of virtualization and/or container technologies and products from RedHat, VMware, or Microsoft.
- Hands-on experience with All-Flash SAN arrays, FC or IP networking, All-Flash NAS arrays, Object/S3 storage, and Backup/Data Protection technologies.
- Experience with Disaster Recovery (DR) and data recovery techniques.
- Ability to conduct performance analysis and troubleshooting skills for the end-to-end storage and backup stack.
- Experience in system monitoring tools and techniques for supporting SAN, NAS, Object Storage, and Backup operations.
- Scripting proficiency and automation experience across both Windows and Linux environments.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, and strong interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn modern technologies and paradigms.