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Title: Data Center Engineer
Client Industry: IT Service Provider
Company Location: Boca Raton, FL
WFH Policy (Remote/Onsite/Hybrid): Onsite
Duration: Direct-Hire
Job Description:
The Data Center Engineer will be part of a team responsible for the design, implementation, and administration of multiple data center and critical network environments for our clients. The Engineer will also take part in hybrid cloud provisioning and cloud migrations. This is a hands-on role that requires technical knowledge of data center technologies, which include all facets of a data center environment (networking, systems, and storage).
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain all converged / hyperconverged & virtual infrastructure, across the data center and critical environments.
- Work with the other engineering teams and vendors to repair systems, networking, and storage equipment.
- Analyzes performance indicators, such as system's response time, and number of programs being processed at once, to ensure that systems are operating efficiently.
- Optimizing physical and virtual systems for proper resource utilization and provide system capacity analysis & planning
- VMware Sphere / vCenter for provisioning Windows operating system on ESXi hosts
- Manage the configuration and administration of high performance, mass storage arrays in SAN deployment and configuration in an Enterprise Infrastructure
- Configure and support enterprise storage devices utilizing iSCSI, Fiber Channel, CIFS, NFS, FcoE protocols
- Perform on-prem to cloud migrations
- Develops, implements and oversees policies and procedures to ensure consistent storage provisioning, uptime, regulatory compliance and data protection.
- Manage Windows server environments
- Assist with the installation, removal, cabling, and troubleshooting of all equipment within data centers.
- Support design and implement backup/disaster recovery solutions
- Perform capacity planning and assist with storage forecasting
- Plan and execute upgrades, patches and problem troubleshooting
- Managing data migration for clients between old and new infrastructures.
- Initiates system tests to detect errors or failed systems.
- Handling escalations from internal team as well as clients.
- Respond to alarms and events 24 x 7 for all data center infrastructure systems as part of an on call rotation.
Job Requirements
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- In depth knowledge of EMC/Pure storage systems.
- Maintain current knowledge of new hardware and software.
- Must have knowledge of networking.
Experience
- 7+ years experience working in a datacenter production environment including network, storage & system technologies.
- 7+ years experience managing, configuring, or supporting VMware and Windows systems.
- 7+ years experience with spreadsheet and drawing software (Excel, Visio, etc.).
- Vendor certifications in (Microsoft, Cisco, VMWare, or DELL/EMC or Pure).
This job description does not list all duties of the job. You may be asked by management to perform other duties. Management has the right to revise this job description at any time. This job description does not constitute a contract for employment.
