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Title:  Sr. SAN Engineer
Location:  Cleveland, OH
Job Type:  Contract
Compensation:   per Hour
Reference Code:  950759-EQG
Description:  The Senior SAN Engineer is primarily responsible for designing, implementing, operating, and maintaining the Storage Area Network (SAN) environment. Essential Duties:
  • Interacts with business users and vendors to identify and define requirements and expectations of new and existing storage systems
  • Assists in the development and strategy of SAN technology infrastructure through system monitoring, maintenance, and system upgrades
  • Is the subject matter expert for storage in disaster recovery planning
  • Timely responds to Help Desk Trouble Tickets and handles related issues
  • Completion of work request activity submitted via Service Request System
  • Monitors, tracks, and documents allocations and utilization across enterprise storage systems
  • Allocates LUNs on disk arrays and virtual storage
  • Provides tuning, re-engineering, capacity planning, and performance monitoring for storage systems
  • Provides support for service disruptions, project-associated needs, continuous service improvement, and develops documentation relevant to ensure customer service and business continuity objectives are achieved
  • Develops reports on historical, current, and future needs for storage systems - both local and independent systems
  • Participates with Project Management Office (PMO) representatives and IT/S Technology Architects to develop scoping documents for new projects; providing a point of contact for the technical storage aspects of projects and other new initiatives
  • Performs hardware management, which includes the tasks of installation of Host Bus Adapters (HBA), SAN switches and other storage related devices
  • Coordinates testing, upgrades and configuration of storage system services
  • Ensures changes are in accordance with appropriate operating procedures; recommends revisions or changes based upon results
  • Prepares for and prescribes approaches to foreseen bottlenecks and challenges
  • Oversees and implements system upgrade strategy
  • Evaluates products and upgrades
Requirements:  This position requires someone who can provide the hands-on SAN engineering duties, as well as some architect level skills including Design, Storage Allocation, and Troubleshooting. The client is an HP storage environment, but will consider someone with other experience.