US-MO-StLouis-SAN Storage Consultant

shenry.TakeThisOut@softnettc.com

Storage Consultant


Summary

Consultants will assist clients with Enterprise & Service provider
systems infrastructure development and implementation, including the
design and engineering of: Enterprise and wide area storage networks,
high availability Internet architectures, and complex name and directory
services.

Consultants will possess advanced storage networking skills, advanced
systems administration skills with the Unix and Windows operating
system, and expertise with TCP/IP networking.



Required
TCP/IP
System and storage administration
Storage networking or SAN

Must Have One of These

UNIX
NT

Skills to look for
Full-suite storage vendors

Network Appliance - NetApp
Compaq
EMC
Hitachi
IBM
StorageTek
Hardware vendors
Brocade
Nishan Systems
Network Appliance
Crossroads
Software vendors
Veritas
High road
Legato
IP Cluster Controller Products (Also referred to as "Load Balancers" or
Distributed DNS Systems)
F5 Labs BigIP
F5 Labs DNS3
Cisco Local Director
Cisco Distributed Director
RND Networks WD Series
Web Servers
Microsoft IIS
Netscape
Apache
Enterprise Directories
LDAP
Netscape Directory Server
Microsoft Active Directory
Fibre Channel
Fibre channel host bus adapter (HBA)
Fibre channel switch or hub
Fibre channel procotol (FCP)
Fibre channel protocol over IP (FCP/IP)
Storage over IP (SOIP)
General Metacharacters
CLUSTER
SOLARIS
HP-UX
LINUX
WINDOWS 2000

Background

" Required Background
" 5 years systems and storage administration experience with UNIX
and/or Windows 2000/NT. Past experience managing a large storage
network, or managing a large server or storage consolidation and
migration project.
" Enterprise experience in an Internet, Electronic Commerce, or
Electronic Business environment. Or, Service provider experience in a
large systems and storage environment.
" Large environment (50+ servers) experience
" Previous experience in some form of customer technical support
" Previous consulting experience
" Leadership experience
" Desired Background
" Publication within the field of system administration
" Degree in computer science or related field

Consultant Skills

" Required Consulting Skills
" Proposal Writing and Job Scope
" Assessment documentation and Design development
" Policy and process documentation
" Strong Inter-personal and communications skills
" Capable of writing detailed documentation (Proposals, Designs,
Purchase Justifications) and making presentations to the client
" Interacts positively with upper management
" Capable of designing and delivering presentations or training
programs to large customer audiences and professional peers
" Strong project management and organization skills

Technical Skills

" Required Technical Skills
" High skill with UNIX and WIN2K commands/utilities
" Solid understanding of UNIX and/or WIN2K based operating system
" Job control
" System performance tuning (paging, swapping, system monitoring and
tuning)
" Inter-process communications
" File system concepts, devices and device drivers
" Familiarity with networked/distributed computing environment
concepts
" TCP/IP - routing, system connectivity, DNS and name resolution,
ability to debug IP communications
" Distributed file system design and implementation (Network
Attached Storage (NAS), CIFS, DAFS, NFS, RFS, AFS)
" Understands the design of consistent network-wide file system
layouts
" High Availability Server - Software and IP clustering system
design and implementation
" WIN2K networking - domain design and implementation
" Solid background in Enterprise Storage Area Networking products
and design methodologies (NAS, SOIP, DAFS, VI, INFINIBAND, SRDF, FCP,
FCP/IP)
" Solid Unix and/or WIN2K system administration
" Mail system configuration (Sendmail, POP)
" System installation and configuration
" Printing systems
" Fundamentals of system security
" Software installation and compilation
" Scripting or Programming Skills (Perl, Java, Javascript, C++,
Tcl/Tk, Shell Scripting, Visual Basic)
" Ability to solve problems quickly and completely
" Ability to identify tasks that require automation and automate
them
" Name Services design and implementation (DNS,NIS+)
" Desired Technical Skills
" Heterogeneous operating system and hardware platform experience.
Preferably, Sun, HP-UX, and WIN2K environments. Experience with
multiple hardware platforms and storage sub-systems.
" Directory Services design and implementation (LDAP, X.500)
" Strong systems security skills - systems security vulnerability
testing and auditing, operating system hardening
" Significant programming background in any applicable language
" Significant hardware experience - system diagnostics and repair
" Familiarity with web server systems - Netscape, Apache, Microsoft
IIS
" Familiarity with SAN over the wide area (CNT, SRDF)

Appropriate Responsibilities

" Serves as project lead for consulting engineering and sales
engineering projects.
" Principal Designer and Engineer
" Planner
" Management of a large site, network, or project
" Works under direction from senior or executive management.
Establishes/recommends policies on system use and services.
" Serves as technical lead and/or supervises consultants