Senior SAN Storage Architect for Singapore

Position Requirements

The candidate will be responsible for the build, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting of storage environment in multiple data centers that support Digital storage infrastructure. Must be able to show initiative and teamwork to resolve projects spanning many disciplines, teams, and data environments. This engineer will be a senior system architect for our customers Storage Area Network (SAN) platforms and will routinely work with vendors, project managers, system administrators, database administrators, application developers and end users in order to maintain and improve the performance of our servers, databases and applications

Required Skills and Education:

Must be experienced in troubleshooting of complex multi-vendor and geographically separated storage environments.
HP 3-PAR storage, HDS Storage
Brocade SAN experience 
Cisco SAN Experience 
Willing to travel one a year to Japan, Australia, China, Hong Kong, India
Years of experience - 5-10 years. 
Good Command of English and presentation skills
Technical product experience in the following
Brocade FC/VDX, Cisco Fabric switches
HDS, Netapp, Sun/Oracle, and EMC storage
Extensive build experience with EMC (VMAX, Symmetrix, VNX, etc.), NetApp & Hitachi ( AMS/HUS/HCP) storage technology

Must have Expert knowledge of basic RAID, storage tiering, storage architecture concepts, storage virtualization, local and datacenter replication practices, and storage best practices
Must have experience in architecting, administrating, and troubleshooting Brocade Fabrics: zoning, aliasing, QoS, FC routing, and virtual fabrics. (FC to Ethernet bridging experience a plus)
Must have experience in architecting, administration, configuration, and performance troubleshooting of HDS and Netapp storage solutions primarily, additional storage vendor experience is a plus
Experience with NetApp vFilers, IP Spaces, VIFs highly preferred
Experience with NetApp 8.1x or 8.2 Cluster Mode highly preferred

Experience with in-system and external replication of storage using HDS or Netapp software.
Experience with planning and implementing storage migrations for datacenter moves
Understanding of the fiber channel protocols and storage networking, experience with long distance SAN networking a plus.
Expert understanding of how server behaviors and IO load patterns affect storage (LUN Q-Depth, multipathing, application IO size, etc ).
High level of knowledge regarding setup, configuration, and administration with Hitachi Command Suite software. (Device Manager, Tiered storage manager, Tuning Manager, HUR)

Basic Unix and/or Windows administration understanding and skills, (VI, file manipulation, Active Directory, UNIX and Windows based file permissions).
Intermediate understanding of networking required: DNS, netmasks, IP routing, NIS, AD
Experience with storage design and configuration in VMware, Xen, Oracle, SAS, ETL, SQL, and Oracle RAC environments
Must be thoroughly proficient in the following protocols/technologies:
FC, SCSI, ISCSI, NFS, CIFS, SAS (FCoE not required but a plus), fiber channel trunking

Required Skills and Education:

Bachelor Degree (EE, CS, etc.)
o Candidates without a Bachelors degree will NOT be considered
Desired Certifications/Key Experience:
HP 3-PAR storage, HDS Storage
Brocade SAN experience 
Cisco SAN Experience 
Willing to travel one a year to Japan, Australia, China, Hong Kong, India
Years of experience - 5-10 years. 
Good Command of English and presentation skills
o Applicable Brocade, Cisco, EMC, NetApp & HDS SAN Training & Certifications Desired


Singapore Work VISA
Visa sponsorship is available to qualified candidates. (H1 Transfer Available) 

Contact
Please send resume to resume@sandatasystem.com

OR

Mail to
SAN Data Systems Inc
4231 Business center drive, Suite 11
Fremont CA 94539 USA

www.sandatasystem.com