Job Title: Senior Storage Engineer

Location: Walnut Creek, CA (Onsite ONLY)

Job Type : W2 contract

Must Have:

• At least 10 years of experience
• Strong experience in Nimble Storage (Now HPE Nimble Storage) and Cohesity

Storage Systems: Experience with SAN (Storage Area Networks), NAS (Network Attached Storage), and DAS (Direct Attached Storage).

Storage Protocols: Knowledge of Fiber Channel (FC), iSCSI, NFS, CIFS/SMB, and Object Storage (S3).

Storage Hardware & Vendors: Hands-on experience with technologies from vendors like NetApp, Dell EMC, Cohesity, HPE, etc.

Cloud Storage: Understanding of AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, and hybrid cloud storage integration. * A plus*

Storage Virtualization: Experience with VMware vSAN, IBM SVC, or other virtualization solutions. *A MUST*

Storage Performance Tuning: Understanding of RAID levels, SSD/HDD performance differences, IOPS, latency, and throughput optimization.

Capacity Planning & Monitoring: Familiarity with tools like Splunk, or vendor-specific monitoring solutions.

Data Security: Knowledge of encryption (at rest/in transit), access control, and storage security best practices.

Regulatory Compliance: Familiarity with HIPAA, GDPR, PCI-DSS, and other data protection standards.

Troubleshooting: Ability to diagnose storage performance issues and system failures.

Collaboration: Experience working with DevOps, Networking, and Security teams to design and implement storage solutions.

Project Management: Participation in storage migrations, upgrades, or disaster recovery planning

Email- "Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
- JK Rowling