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Our client, located in Austin, TX, is currently in need of a NetApp Storage Architect for a 12 month contract. The position is likely to renew on a yearly basis. The consultant will work as a senior member on the team responsible for architecting and managing storage solutions being deployed at the client. Responsibilities:
- Perform design level work with the customer’s architecture team using NetApp technologies and solutions into a customer’s storage infrastructure following NetApp and ITIL best practices that are aligned to the customer’s business requirements.
- Participate as a team member of our customer’s IT engineering and architecture teams to ensure the continuity of solutions within the client data center.
- Being a trusted advisor to the customer and account team
- Being an advocate of the customer’s infrastructure needs to the account team
- Set architectural and design standards for our storage and operational solutions tailored to meet the customer’s needs
- The design of NetApp solutions into the customers IT Service Management (ITSM) data center services
- Enhancements and extensions of a customer’s IT Service Management (ITSM) framework to cover new and existing NetApp solutions.
- Project planning for tasks of moderate to high complexity
- Technical mentoring and guidance to other technical team members.
- Design level optimization of the customers storage infrastructure
- Ensure our designs are viable and NetApp remains the platform of choice for the customer
- Large-scale infrastructure design of strongly-typed architectures
- IT and business process transformation in the context of IT service management (ITSM)
- Operating Systems: Unix and Windows systems administration functions including domain structures, file systems, disk partitions, mounts, quotas, and general security.
- Networking: Local area network technology, specifically Ethernet, IP, DNS and NIS associated daemons, FC switches and directors, network architectures including hubs, repeaters, bridges, routers, and switches.
- Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery – as it relates to applying and utilizing NetApp technologies and products within the customer environment
- Storage: SAN and NAS storage, data replication, storage efficiency and manageability software
- IT application environment: full spectrum of the technical environment: infrastructure, backups and business applications (Oracle, SAP, MS Exchange, MS SharePoint, MS SQL, etc).
- ITIL Service Management and NetApp Storage Management Best Practices.
- Experience architecting large environments
- These individuals will also possess strong leadership and interpersonal skills and have extensive architecture experience in defining storage strategies and leading complex storage solution projects.
- Enterprise EDA experience
- Strong and current Data OnTap (CDOT)
- Prior Storage Admin experience, working and managing large environments of NetApp clusters
- Experience with global storage deployments
- Experience working with cascading Q-trees
- Experience with OCUM and other storage management tools
- Strong communications skills
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