Job Description

Introduction
As a Storage Platform Engineer, you will be part of the Cirrus Hybrid Cloud storage support team responsible for ensuring the architectural integrity and successful delivery of a scalable storage platform for the IBM CIO Organization. This role has a focus on the management of storage for Cirrus Hybrid Cloud. This entails working on all aspects of disk management and monitoring, including disk initialization, fault monitoring and handling, and reporting. The candidate will be tasked with solving intriguing problems while partnering with other team members, customers, and vendors. Successful candidates will have a strong Linux development background and a passion for learning and continuous improvement.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Management, maintenance, and support of various data storage solutions especially in the RedHat OpenShift Virtualization (OSV) environment.
• Plan, coordinate and upgrade components of the SAN/NAS/TSM as needed with software, hardware and microcode upgrades
• Incorporate storage replication into Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions
• Operate in an agile manner and under strict change control
• Engage on technical level discussions around data center solutions and storage integration
• Design, implement, and manage integrations between internal and external solutions, as well as storage-related monitoring solutions
• Handle storage provisioning tasks, for example, end user requests, creation of volumes, mapping and ensuring storage availability at the operating system, storage performance analysis, troubleshooting, storage capacity management and planning
• Provision VMWare and Physical LUNS, applying patches, upgrading software, performance, capacity planning and ensuring data is secured
• Monitor for errors, hardware failures, optimization, capacity, and performance of storage arrays and associated networking to ensure and restore normal operations
• Maintain the fiber channel switches and SAN configurations, especially Brocade-compatible, by ensuring that software and firmware are in keeping with the latest needs of an organization
• Provide on-call support and implementation after-hours on a rotating basis
• Think and act like a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) as the environment relates to storage and depends on storage

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• BS degree in computer science (or similar) or equivalent experience
• 8 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in the management of highly available enterprise-class Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) including Fiber Channel (FC) and Internet Protocol (IP) networking and connected storage arrays.
• Experience with IBM Spectrum Scale, Spectrum Protect, CP4D, DataStage, SKLM, NFS, CIFS, SMB, Networker, NetBackup, BackupExec, or CommVault
• A strong understanding of diverse infrastructure platforms and infrastructure concepts required.
• Strong scripting and automation abilities
• Excellent communicate skills to work with clients/customers, 3rdparties such as support and supply vendors, internal stakeholders, and team, etc.
• Strong leadership ability to drive technical deployments and steady state operations for a global team
• Ability to technically represent the team with executives and in key customer engagements
  

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Able to describe and traverse Kubernetes or OpenShift internals, deep familiarity with how a cluster works and the underlying architecture and its components
• Familiarity or usage of the IBM Cloud platform and its catalog of services
• Administration or usage of cloud native delivery solutions such as ArgoCD or Flux
• Experience automating infrastructure, configuration management, testing, and deployments using tools like Ansible, Chef and can explain the Infrastructure as Code paradigm
• Familiarity with managing and securing a distributed Windows Server and/or Linux environment
• Deep technical specialization in a required field \xe2\x80\x93 Spectrum Scale, Spectrum Protect, IBM Storage, Brocade SAN fabrics, or SKLM
• Ability to drive innovation and operational excellence across the team

About Business Unit We, at the IBM Chief Information Office (CIO) are a dynamic group of business, strategy and technology professionals, who provide top-of-the-line industry consulting, application and business process delivery, and follow agile values and principles. CIO is at the forefront of the digital reinvention of key applications used across IBM globally, providing value-led and asset-powered end-to-end solutions.
We are a cross-functional organization that provides IT applications and infrastructure services to IBM Business Units and to IBMers worldwide. Our mission is to provide a productive environment for everyone at IBM. We do this by leading with Design to drive simplicity and ease of use, Engineering the systems that own the business, and Innovating to transform the business. We continually Deepen our Agile practices while ensuring we Secure the Enterprise.

This job requires you to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated prior to your start date and proof of vaccination status will be required before your start date. During the Onboarding process you will be asked to confirm your vaccination status, in case you are unable to get vaccinated for any reason, you can let us know at that stage. Please let us know if you are unable to be vaccinated due to medical or religious reasons. IBM will consider such requests on a case by case basis subject to submission of required proof by the candidate before a stipulated date.


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