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Storage Architect-Philadelphia (Closed)

Our customer is seeking a Storage Architect.

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for providing and deploying technical architectures that deliver the highest value solutions 
  • Interact with IT engineering and architecture teams to ensure the continuity of solutions within the client data center 
  • Consult on storage infrastructure and operational solutions tailored to meet the customer’s needs
  • Integration of solutions into the customers IT Service Management (ITSM) data center services
  • Being trusted advisor to the customer and account team
  • Being an advocate of the customer’s infrastructure needs to the Account Team
  • Project planning for tasks of moderate to high complexity
  • Project Management, including building project plans and tracking scope, scheduling, and budgeting during delivery
  • Configuration of hardware and software products
  • Requirements analysis and gathering technical details regarding a customer’s environment
  • Implementation of backup and restore, disaster recovery, storage consolidation, data protection, storage performance, etc.
  • Optimization such as upgrades, performance monitoring, and system audit tasks
  • Customer support escalations, including advanced troubleshooting, data collection, forensics and problem resolution
  • Mentor of any Resident Engineers or Admins on the account/project
  • Technical lead for the delivery team (PSE/PSAdmins) throughout the engagement
  • Perform enterprise class assessments (objectives, data collection, analysis, reporting against objectives)
  • Leverage Project Delivery Methodology (PDM – Assess, Consult, Deploy, Close/Transition)

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent experience is required
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills
  • Experience with direct management of individuals and experience in driving the activities of multi-person customer, partner, and consulting teams
  • Ability to embed himself/herself into the client’s design team
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills to exchange information with team members, systems administrators, management, and the customer
  • Ability to work with a customers’ technical representatives under a variety of circumstances to understand their requirements
  • Ability to collaborate and share knowledge with technical team members and managers
  • Excellent leadership and sales skills
  • NAS; Admin; Ops Manager; SnapMirror; SnapManager Exchange (SME); SnapManager SharePoint; SnapManager SQL; SnapManager Virtual Infrastructure (SMVI); SnapVault
    Active Directory; CIFS; Microsoft Exchange; Project Management; VMware; DFS
  • A minimum of 8+ years of experience is required
  • Networking and Fiber Chanel experience
  • NCDA Certified preferred
  • NCIE Certifications preferred
  • ITILv3 foundation Certified preferred
  • ITILv3 Intermediate level certification for ITL Lifecycle stream in the following 2 streams is required: Service Transition, Service Operations, and Other Certifications TBD
  • MCP, MCSA and MCSE Certifications are a plus
  • Demonstrated ability to have completed multiple, complex technical projects

About SkillStorm: SkillStorm is the nation’s fastest-growing I.T. Services company. We have been providing technology consulting, outsourcing and staffing solutions since 2002. SkillStorm can provide you with the right tools to ensure you have the best technology team in place to fuel your organization’s continued success. SkillStorm works with scores of fine companies, including many that rank among the elite Fortune 500 and has been setting the standard for customer service in the industry since inception.

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