Sr Systems Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

Client:  Kforce
 
End Client:  Williams Sonoma
 
Role:  Sr. Systems Engineer (Storage and Backup)
 
Location:  3750 Atherton Road, Rocklin, CA 95765 -4 Days onsite from Monday to Thursday
 
Duration:  6 Months+ Contract long-term rolling extensions
 
Pay Rate:  $63/hr onW2
 
Work Type:  Hybrid
 
Job Type:  Contract
 
  
 
Top Requirements:
 
 
Actively working in production environment
 
7+ years of production support experience in Storage & Backup Administration
 
Expert level knowledge of large-scale Storage Area Network & Systems (NetApp , EMC , HPE , IBM, Cisco, Rubrik & Brocade)
 
NetApp Grid
 
SAN / Storage Administration certification is must
 
Advanced to expert knowledge of technologies such as operating systems (AIX, Linux, Windows, VMware)
 
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or relevant subject
 
 
  
 
Team Overview 
 
You will be a part of the Technical Solutions Services team. The role of a Senior Storage & Backup Engineer is to design, implement, manage and maintain storage solutions in Williams-Sonoma Inc. You will be providing Level 3 support to Storage and Backup environment. You will provide administration and engineering support on multiple OS platforms in a multi-vendor environment, while working closely with architecture, application development, database, server and networking teams. In addition, you will continuously participate in developing, defining and simplifying processes to improve services. For new initiatives or critical upgrades, you will work closely with Business/Application Development & Engineering teams during project analysis and design phases and with the Operations team during the implementation and post go-live support.
 
Project Description 
 
Duties/Day to Day Overview 
 
    Design, implement, manage, and maintain storage solutions
 
    Leads and participate in installation and configuration activities of storage and backup systems.
 
    Provision and decommission storage in accordance with documented procedures
 
    Managing and troubleshooting NFS exports and CIFS Shares
 
    Supports resolution of production support incidents
 
    Troubleshoots issues across development, test and production systems
 
    Routinely monitors all systems within the storage and backup domain
 
    Performs systems resource optimization activities
 
    Participates in systems management, and security compliance activities
 
    Oversees monitoring, system access and configuration management
 
    Understanding of application /database design & integration with storage systems
 
    Identifies automation opportunities by communicating and collaborating with the team
 
    Researches and recommends automation and monitoring tools
 
    Develops and maintains procedures and storage system documentation
 
    Create Knowledge Base articles of operational tasks to streamline support and empower first and second level support to resolve issues
 
    Document the design, operation and troubleshooting of technology platforms and procedures
 
    Automate repeatable task using scripting & Ansible
 
    Research new technologies and processes
 
    Participates in On-Call rotation support
 
Top Requirements
 
(Must haves) 
 
    Actively working in production environment
 
    7+ years of production support experience in Storage & Backup Administration
 
    Expert level knowledge of large-scale Storage Area Network & Systems (NetApp , EMC , HPE , IBM, Cisco, Rubrik & Brocade)
 
    NetApp Grid
 
    SAN / Storage Administration certification is must
 
    Advanced to expert knowledge of technologies such as operating systems (AIX, Linux, Windows, VMware)
 
    Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or relevant subject