| Job ID: | Job-0776 | | Job Title: | Storage Architect | | location: | New York City | | Jobtype: | Permanent | | Rate: | $110K - $125K +bonus | | Description: | The primary role of the Storage Architect is to optimize and lead the evolution of the firm's 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. NO RELOCATION. NO VISA TRANSFERS. NO OVERSEAS RESUMES. NO 3RD PARTIES. To receive a complimentary subscription to my job search ezine, No B.S. Job Search Advice, go to www.JeffAltman.com to subscribe. Receive tweets from Twitter with job search tips and job listings – TheBigGameHuntr | |
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