Storage Sre L

Position: Storage SRE L3

Location: Alpharetta GA-- Onsite

Job type: Contract

Job description:

• Work with industry leading technologies in a complex and challenging environment
• Provide level 3 escalations & on-call support for a large global distributed production environment
• Support the production environment during outage scenarios
• Deploy new distributed and storage infrastructure including new data center build outs
• Interact with engineering teams on the testing and certification for new hardware and software products
• Provide operational insights and requirements for new developments
• Proactively work on health & hygiene tasks to maintain stability
• Identify opportunities for automation and create automated solutions
• Contributed to internal documentation to improve operational effectiveness
• Work directly with 3rd party industry leasing vendors (NetApp, Broadcom, IBM/Lenovo, Dell, Veritas)

Qualifications:

• Hands on experience and working knowledge in at least two of the following technologies:
  • Linux administration
  • NAS technologies (NFS,SMB)
  • Block Storage Array technologies
  • SAN Fabric and switches
  • Storage volume manager (VxVM/LVM or similar)
  • Software defined storage / Cloud technologies
• Knowledge of Unix and Storage protocol protocols such as NFS, SMB, Fiber channel
• TCP/IP and network technologies (NFS, CIFS,DNS, iSCSI)
• Fluency in Python for building automation tools
• A practitioner of Infrastructure as code and able to constantly evaluate and purse opportunities to automate tasks
• High levels of motivation, initiative and a proactive or 'self-starter' approach to work is essential