Description: Storage Engineer (EMC) - My client is looking for a EMC Storage Engineer for a 4-6 month daily rate contract.


Overview:

The role comprises of storage administration support for SAN, Backup and the Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) function.



Job Description:
The individual will be working in a storage focused team primarily responsible for storage provisioning, SAN management and systems backup provisioning for many diverse application systems and operating systems. The individual will be engaged in an EMC, Brocade, Symantec and Sun / Storage Tek environment. The individual will be involved in daily administration functions such as incident management, change management and problem resolution. This will encompass implementation of operational practices around administration, reporting and monitoring of the hardware/software in this environment. Some basic support of the ILM function will also be required in terms of the Archiving products supported by the team.
The Storage Services team provide infrastructure support to the my client’s business community, and in doing so, maintain relationships with many other IT teams in providing a high quality overall solution.

Key skills for the Storage Engineer (EMC) role:

Possess 5 years + of progressive experience in computer operations, data processing, management information systems, or systems administration.
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Possess 3 years + experience of working in complex SAN environments with multiple Unix/Windows hosts and DMX / Clariion/Centera/EVA arrays.
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Familiarity with system backup strategies utilizing tape or magnetic disk technologies.
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Demonstrate excellent judgment skills in order to make successful decisions in dealing with sometimes complex situations.
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Demonstrate well developed troubleshooting skills for incident & problem management.
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Provide technical leadership and influencing by clearly and effectively communicating with peers and customers.
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Demonstrate strong initiative and willingness to achieve results through change.
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Ability to develop and manage system documentation including standard operating procedures, and routine status reports; and script development, testing and implementation.
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Have an ability to support multiple/concurrent projects and initiatives.
• Written and oral communication skills should be to a high standard.




Experience:
Minimum 5 years, working in an IT support environment.



Academic Qualification:
Preference for graduate qualifications.



Skill Set:

Familiarity with various high availability and Disaster Recovery techniques. Assist in processes involving change management, vendor management, problem escalation and project management.
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Ability to provide 7x 24x365 support using mobile phone, and remote access tools.
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Ability to provide training to less experienced staff.
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Network: TCP/IP, troubleshooting. Cluster technology awareness.
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NetBackup Enterprise Server 7.x
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Unix or Windows OS + scripting skills an advantage


Description: Storage Engineer (EMC) – SAN Engineer -

For further information please forward your CV to peter@eolas.ie or call 01 286 6666

Description: A large corporate client is looking for a Senior Storage Engineer based in Dublin City Centre.
The successful candidate should have the following experience:
Essential Functions
As a Storage Engineer the responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Manage & Support an EMC Celerra/Clariion & Brocade based Enterprise Storage Infrastructure & associated systems including VMWare/ Linux / Windows Servers, CommVault Simpana Software and various other Applications eg EMC PowerPath etc.
• Day-to-day operations of IT storage functions including allocating storage to Linux / Windows Servers, Managing the Network File Systems (NFS), CIFS and Storage Area Network (SAN) Environments, Administering Brocade Fibre Channel (FC) Switch Fabrics, PowerPath Configuration and Data Replication.
• Manage Storage related activities such as Performance Monitoring, Identifying and Resolving Performance related issues, Identifying and driving efficiency initiatives, Disk Consumption, Capacity Planning, FC Cabling, FC Zoning.
• Be Forward-thinking on future direction for the Storage Environment and investigate/suggest new technologies as they evolve to drive efficiency
• Create and Maintain detailed documentation to describe the Storage Operations, Topology & Configuration.
• Manage & Support Backup/Restore Operations with CommVault Simpana software and have familiarity with Backup technologies such as D2D2T and DeDuplication.
• Manage internal relationships with departmental managers and peers & also manage the external vendor relationships.
Required/Preferred Qualifications
B.S. in a technical discipline or equivalent experience.
Required
• Detailed Operational knowledge of EMC Storage Arrays.
• Detailed knowledge of SAN, NAS, CIFS, NFS.
• 7+ years supporting complex and fast changing large Storage Environments.
• Strong problem solving experience required.
• Must demonstrate strong operating system skills in NT and UNIX/Linux.
• Must be comfortable at Unix Shell/Perl scripting.
• Good communication skills, strong interpersonal skills and able to work in a team and also independently.
• Good understanding of networking.
Please apply to Peter Kirby at peter@eolas.ie if you are interested. Also if you a daily rate contract please also apply as they will look at a daily rate contractor as well if they can't find a suitable permanent person.

Description: New role Just in

I am currently looking to recruit an ambitious and motivated Technical Director / Solutions Architect to lead a team and manage technical project delivery and the pre-sales relationship for my Dublin based Client


The role encompasses architecting and supporting solutions using technology from their partners, CISCO, EMC, HP, IBM, Microsoft, VMware & Oracle. Training will be provided for industry accreditations.

The role involves leading and managing the pre-sales team, customer meetings, systems installations, contribution to project deployment and document production to our customer base, using technology solutions from our partners.


Experience Profile

The candidate must have the following:

•Circa 10 years experience working with the technologies listed below
•Windows Server 2003 & 2008 Administration Experience

•Microsoft Sql, Exchange

•Database experience, MS SQL, Oracle

•Solaris knowledge and experience helpful

•VMWare architecture design and implementation

•SAN (EMC preferably) – Unified Storage

•Cloud architecture and design experience

•Good documentation skills

•Excellent communication skills

•Candidate must be comfortable presenting and consulting up to board level.



The following would be an advantage but are not essential:



• EMC Technical Certifications - a definite advantage !

• Solaris on SPARC and x86

• Symantec

• Commvault

• Microsoft Exchange 2010


If you are interested in this role and have worked in a similar role please send me in an updated CV to lorraine@eolas.ie or call me on 01 286 66 66 to discuss in more detail.

Salary is totally negotiable for the right candidate. I am looking at candidate in the range of 70-75k however if you are on more, please call me as the client will not let salary be a show stopper for the right candidate

Description: A Dublin City Centre based client is looking for an Storage Engineer who also has a strong EMC background.
This is a great opportunity for a enthusiastic Technical Engineer to further their SAN skills.
Job Description:
The role comprises of storage administration and support of the following infrastructure;
• EMC & HP EVA Storage Arrays
• McData & Brocade SAN Switches
• Symantec NetBackup and Puredisk
• ILM and Data Management Archiving Tools
• Data Domain Deduplication
• EMC Control Center
Job Scope:
The individual will primarily responsible for storage provisioning, storage network management and systems backup provisioning for many diverse application systems and operating systems. The individual will be engaged in an EMC, Brocade, McData, Symantec and Sun StorageTEK environment and the use of SYMcli & EMC Control Center as a DMX administration tool. There will be core involvement in daily administration functions such as incident management, change management and problem resolution. This will encompass implementation of best practices around administration, reporting and monitoring of the SAN and Backup infrastructure. Some basic support of the ILM function will also be required in terms of the archiving strategy of the team. There may also be a requirement to contribute to ongoing architectural designs for the enterprise storage solutions.
Key Skills:
• Possess 5 years plus of progressive experience of working in complex SAN environments with multiple UNIX/Windows hosts and DMX/Clariion/Centera/EVA arrays. Familiarity with system backup strategies utilising tape or magnetic disk technologies would be an advantage.
• Demonstrate excellent judgement skills in order to make successful decisions in deal with complex situations.
• Demonstrate well developed troubleshooting skills for incident and problem management.
• Provide technical leadership and influencing by clearly and effectively communicating with peers and customers.
• Demonstrate strong initiative and willingness to achieve results through change.
• Have an ability to develop and manage system documentation including standard operating procedures and routine status reports.
• Have an ability to support multiple concurrent projects and initiatives.
Additional Desired Skills:
• Have experience with UNIX script development, testing and implementation
• Familiarity with various high availability and disaster recovery techniques.
• Assist in processes involving change management, vendor management, problem escalation and project management.
• Ability to provide 7x24x365 support using pager, cell phone and remote access tools.
• Ability to provide training to less experienced staff.
•Written and oral communications should meet company guidelines for compliance and professionalism.
Experience:
Minimum 5 years, working in SAN support environment

If you are interested in the role, please contact Peter on 01 286 66 66 or e-mail your updated CV on peter@eolas.ie