Cloud Storage Engineer

Softthink Solutions is seeking a highly motivated and result-oriented Cloud Storage Engineer to join our team in Herndon, VA to support our client project.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead and provide ongoing administration, maintenance and problem resolution of existing SAN/NAS storage infrastructure and related software.

• Design, implement and maintain SAN and NAS storage appliances/solutions for use by cloud and other compute infrastructure.

• Troubleshoot and resolve escalations from the team’s support departments within defined SLA’s and processes.

• Planned, execute, and assist with ongoing cloud platform migrations with legacy on prime NetApp.

• Profiling and capacity prediction of each storage prediction.

• establish measurement processes that track space management allocation, usage, and reclamation opportunities.

• Cloud Storage backup and DR planning and implementation.

• Configure Storage alerting system for any standard threshold defined by the organization.

• Perform Operations day-to-day ticketing tools Service NOW resolving issues updating the ticket and closing it accordingly.

• Data migration to cloud environment ONTAP defining objective of migration of data sets to high IOPS tier storage performance.

• Develop scripts for the migrations game plan.

• Failed data migration, analyze the data and perform other methods of migration plans such as robocopy or rsync etc.

• Use Datadobi and Komprise tools to migrate the data and mitigate the issues.

• Post-migration support ends users with any issues restoring the data from old Storage or permissions.

• Automate report generation as an everyday task.

• Design and implement secure network solutions that meet business requirements.

• Create and configure virtualized systems in the AWS environment.

• Perform infrastructure upgrades and updates to maximize system efficiency while minimizing downtime.

• Deploy applications in AWS using EC2 instances and Elastic Beanstalk.

• Create blueprints using CloudFormation templates for common workloads.

• Maintain, testing and implement disaster recovery procedures.

• Implement automation using scripting languages (e.g., Python, Perl) to manage AWS services.

• Develop software components in Java/Python .NET that interact with AWS cloud services by leveraging the AWS APIs.

At our company and at our client’s company, a Cloud Storage Engineer requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Technology or a combination of education and experience equating to the U.S. equivalent of a Bachelor’s degree in one of the aforementioned subjects.