AHEAD builds platforms for digital business.
By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.
At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard.
We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.
We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD.
The Storage Engineer is primarily responsible for the overall health and maintenance of storage technologies in our managed services customer's environments.
Our Storage Engineers are a valued member of the Managed Services Infrastructure Practice – Storage and DPS team responsible for Tier 3 incident management, service request management and change management infrastructure support for all Managed Services customers.
Responsibilities
Provide enterprise-level operational support to Managed Services customers for incident, problem, and change management activities
Plan and perform maintenance activities
Assess customer environments for performance and design issues and propose resolutions
Work across technical teams to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues
Create and maintain detailed documentation
Serve as a subject matter expert and escalation point for storage technologies
Work with vendors to resolve storage issues
Communicate with customers and internal team with transparency
Participate in on-call rotation
Completion of training and certification as assigned to further skills and knowledge
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent Information Systems or related field.
Unique education, specialized experience, skills, knowledge, training, or certification may be substituted for education
5+ years of expert level experience with Dell PowerMax including best practices
3+ years of experience with Dell Powerscale
Experience with Dell Unity and Xtremio preferred
Experience with disaster recovery and data replication technologies, including PowerMax SRDF and TimeFinder SnapVX, PowerScale SnapshotIQ and SyncIQ
Block and file migration experience is a bonus, including Powerpath migration enabler, Open Replicator, EMCopy, RoboCopy, DataDobi
5+ years of experience with administration of enterprise and departmental switching technologies, including Cisco and Brocade - Cisco MDS preferred
Experience with other storage platforms such as Pure or NetApp is a bonus
5+ years of experience with operational administration of IT systems
3+ years working with monitoring platforms; LogicMonitor a bonus
3+ years working with an enterprise ITSM system: Service Now is a bonus
Familiarity with enterprise IT infrastructure concepts including network, virtualization, and data protection
Experience with enterprise Data Protection systems a plus: Dell, Cohesity, Rubrik
Managed Services or consulting experience is a plus
Cloud Platform knowledge is desired
Strong background with customer service
High level problem-solving and communication skills
Strong oral and written communications skills
Related Storage and Data Protection certifications are a bonus
Why AHEAD:
Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.
We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.
We understand that you have a life outside of work.
That’s why we offer paid time off, paid company holidays, and a great benefits program including maternity/paternity leave and much more!
Please note that although some job posting are indicated as remote, it is solely for the purpose of the posting.
It is company policy for employees within thirty miles of an office to be in-office at least 2 days per week.