Lead Storage Engineer

OPENTEXT - THE INFORMATION COMPANY

As the Information Company, our mission at OpenText is to create software solutions and deliver services that redefine the future of digital. Be part of a winning team that leads the way in Enterprise Information Management.  

The Opportunity: 

The OpenText Lead Storage Administrator will assist with general maintenance and upkeep of our global storage environment. Included in this; deploying storage changes, working with vendors, maintaining storage infrastructure, ensuring performance specifications are met and other duties as directed. This person will participate in an on-call rotation to handle production impacting issues.

You are great at: 

Supporting the Operations Organization by employing systematic efforts that translate operational storage needs into configuration specifications which provide a robust, stable and maintainable Production Storage Processing environment, meeting or exceeding all Business Requirements.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Participate in strategic projects
• Provide oversight of the global storage footprint
• Provide storage forecasts based on usage and trending
• Keep up to date with storage manufacturers product offerings
• Provide Level3 expertise for break\fix issues
• Ensure accurate and non-impactful changes are implemented in the production environment by working with technical services storage resources

What it Takes:

• B.S. in computer science / information systems or equivalent combination of education and experience. 
  • Primarily HDS and EMC storage technologies, some familiarity with NetApp, HP 3Par Storage Array installation, configuration and administration would be considered an asset
  • Storage allocation, upgrades and optimization standards
  • Storage Performance Tuning
  • Proactive monitoring and tools implementation
  • Cisco MDS and Brocade SAN switch installation, configuration and administration
  • SRDF/DR , Storage management tools (ECC, SE, ESRS, SMC/SPA)
  • Experience with  EMC’s VMAX, VNX,  Symmetrix and Celerra platforms, Hitachi (HDS),  3PAR storage, NetApp, Cisco SAN Switches & Symantec NetBackup and Data Domain.
  • Familiarity with VMWare is an asset
  • A basic understanding of system administration, trouble-shooting and performance tuning of RedHat Enterprise Linux, HP-UX, Solaris & Windows Servers.

At OpenText we understand and value diversity in our employees and are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.