Beschreibung
Our client is currently / urgently looking for a Storage System Engineering Consultancy Support (m/f) for a project in Darmstadt, Germany.Task Description:
As a member of a Storage Network Infrastructure team, the Consultant shall provide support to the development and maintenance of storage systems with special focus on archive and retrieval services. The duties include the administration and operation of the central archive systems, maintenance of the external storage, inventory and support to the operation of the storage services.
The Consultant shall perform the following tasks:
- monitoring of the facility services, storage and archive performance, investigation into H/W and S/W problems and performance of the relevant corrective actions;
- ensuring that in case of H/W or S/W failures the operational configuration can be restored, including the definition, maintenance, performance of backup/archive procedures;
- liaison with the external providers of H/W and S/W maintenance for the request and follow up of maintenance interventions;
- analysis, planning and performance of H/W and S/W upgrades or reconfigurations, taking care of compatibility issues between storage subsystems;
- implementation and maintenance of scripts and/or procedures where applicable for the automated and/or controlled execution of the above activities, generation or update of associated technical documentation;
- provision of support to design future evolution of the facility to accommodate the requirements of current and future programs, generation and maintenance of associated documentation;
- provision of stand-by/on-call support;
- provision of support, as required, to critical operations
In the performance of the activities the Consultant shall always apply the relevant change management control and maintenance procedures.
Skills:
Minimum of 5 years experience in the administration and troubleshooting of distributed storage systems.
The experience should have been made in an operational or production environment, characterized by custom applications in addition to standard software, running both on the client and server side, and by high availability requirements.
Extensive work experience in the UNIX operating system, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Backup/Archive technologies is required and experience, to the extent required by the performance of the above tasks, with as many as possible of the following system and software environments:
- Oracle/Solaris 10 operating system
- Highly available environments under SUN cluster or equivalent
- Implementation of archive solutions using Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) system (SAM-FS or equivalent)
- High end, automated, tape library systems (StorageTek SL8500 series with ACSLS software)
- SAN topology design and implementation, managing Brocade (or equivalent) switches, EMC Clariion (or equivalent) storage arrays serving many different types of storage client platforms.
- SAN Capacity Planning, Management software concepts and practical experience
- System/Service Monitoring using Nagios framework
- Perl and PHP scripting
- Linux Operating System
- Generation and maintenance of technical documentation in English
Required Language(s):
The official languages of the client are English and French. The working language for the position is English and therefore consultant must be able to work effectively in this language and have a knowledge of the other.
Location
Darmstadt (Germany), but travel within Europe may be required for certain activities.
Duration:
The requirement is for one full time consultant to work at the client with a start date foreseen of 17 October 2011 for a duration of three years. Two options to extend the activities for a further period of one year each shall form part of the contract.
(deadline profile 06.09.2011)
Contact : Gilda Rabelink
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If this is of interest to you, please send us your CV (Word format, max. 250 KB and incl. all necessary contact details [name, address, telephone numbers, Email]) referring to the project name and relevant contact person. Please refrain from sending several attachments or other formats. We would appreciate any info concerning your availability and rate expectations. We look forward to receiving your application.