Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Storage Architect NYC


 
Job ID: Job-0776
Job Title: Storage Architect
location: New York City
Jobtype: Permanent
Description: The primary role of the Storage Architect is to optimize and lead the evolution of our storage technologies. This will include maintaining a technical roadmap for this area which is focused on delivering quality services and introducing new technologies to improve the service offering while sustaining or lowering costs. 

Key Responsibilities include: 
- Planning, managing and participating in the diagnosis (current state), detailed design (future state) and deployment of storage related processes and technologies including storage, backup/recovery and data management. 
- Identifying storage related business and technology requirements and validating that design results address them. 
- Identifying opportunities to drive more value from an organization's existing and planned storage investment through a combination of technical, operational and organizational initiatives. 
- Demonstrating high degree of hands on storage expertise to develop credibility with stakeholders; ie being recognized as an expert in one more storage vendor's products/areas. 
- Demonstrating holistic data center technologies knowledge (eg server, network, applications, etc.) to improve end to end solutions. 
- Leading storage technology evaluation and selection efforts. 
- Responsible for a technical architecture framework and defines new architectural standards for given platform/technology 
- Leads and participates in multiple projects/programs concurrently. 
- Analyzes emerging technologies and determines how it can be used 
- Budget ownership and management for the storage area 
- Proactively optimizes the total cost of ownership for the platform/technology. 
- Ensures that service expectations and cost levels are aligned to the business needs. 
- Leads the server introduction process for new solutions in the service area 
- Engages with vendor management to ensure that statements of work are in place for new services. 
- Define standards for the storage area and ensures adherence 
- Drives new service development initiatives and/or improvements to the existing services 
- Participate in meetings and discussions surrounding delivery of storage. 
- Escalation point for incident and problem management for the storage area. 
EXPERIENCE: Basic Qualifications: 
- Minimum of 7+ years of hands on experience with storage and backup I recovery technologies including Hardware & Software (EMC/Network Appliance/Hitachi Data Systems/Sun Storagetek/IBM/or Storageworks) including administration and/or architecture, backup, recovery, and/or data management. 
- Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree 
- Overall owner of a service area including strategic leadership and roadmap. 
- Architecture, budget and value engineering initiatives for a service area. 
SKILLS: Preferred Skills: 
- Architecting and implementing storage, backup/recovery and/or data management solutions. 
- Designing scalable storage and backup/recovery architectures for critical business systems. 
- Design and deployment of advanced computing and storage technologies, eg server virtualization, storage virtualization, etc. 
- Exposure to Hardware Platforms (UnixNVintel - HP/IBM etc.) and Operating Systems (Windows/Unix/Linux) 

Some combination of the following skills: 
- Designing/deploying Information Management Lifecycle solutions 
- Data center (including application and data) migration/consolidation. 
- Datacenter/Server/Network Operational Components (Monitoring, Management, etc.) 
- Planning future storage capacity 
- Advanced technical knowledge of storage, tape and backup technologies as well as a broad knowledge in other disciplines/technologies. 
- Previous experience managing/working in an outsourced IT environment. 
- Ability to manage vendor relationships 
- Ability to execute in and with diverse global cultures and resources preferred. 
- Understanding of project management. 
- Proven analytical and problem solving abilities. 
- Strong leadership skills. 
- Strong verbal and written communication skills. 

Email resume in Word to TheBigGameHunter@cisny.com. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. 

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