The role involves providing technical consultation, designing, implementing, and delivering complex data storage solutions such as replication, clustering, and data migrations, primarily in cloud and on-premises environments, to support sales efforts and customer needs.
Key Responsibilities
Design and build replication, clustering, and migration solutions for customers.
Provide technical consultation and support for pre-sales and post-sales implementation of professional services.
Collaborate with sales, engineering, and partners to scope and deliver solutions that meet customer needs.
Evaluate and advise on partner proposals for migration services to ensure quality and value.
Develop scripts to automate processes related to storage integration, replication, clustering, and data migrations.
Participate in customer evaluations, proof of concepts, and technical assessments of storage solutions.
Support the implementation of data migration, replication, and clustering solutions across diverse environments.
Maintain expertise in cloud offerings, virtualization, networking, and storage architectures to inform solution design.
Requirements
Strong technical competencies in the field of replication, clustering, cloud offerings, and data migrations, with significant experience across these areas.
Thorough understanding of IT architecture, designing solutions, networking, and implementation of these solutions.
Significant experience across different replication technologies, clustering, cloud, and data migration solutions.
Experience delivering large scale and complex projects utilizing replication, clustering, cloud, and data migration offerings.
Proficiency in scripting languages such as Perl, Shell, PowerShell, Visual Basic, or Python to enable automation of processes.
Experience with Flash Array storage systems.
Experience with replication technologies such as Active Cluster or similar solutions.
Experience with cloud-based offerings including Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and other cloud platforms.
Experience with data center migrations and consolidations, including tools and methodologies for block and file data migrations.
Knowledge of networking concepts and high-level network design, including Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP.
Experience with virtualization tools such as Cisco, Microsoft VMWare, Hyper-V, VMWare ESX, vRA, and SRM.
Experience with appliance-based solutions for migrating block data, such as Cirrus Data Solutions Appliance or similar.
Familiarity with data migration toolsets including Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Dobi, StorageX, Open Replicator.
Experience with multi-vendor server and storage platforms and performance tuning.
Knowledge of disaster recovery, replication, and backup technologies such as Zerto, Veeam, Rubrik, Veritas, NBU.
Experience contributing to data migration solutions in RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures including FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN.