• Must have a Bachelors degree and be open to 100% travel during the week. A prestigious Professional Services Firm is actively seeking Storage Architects to add to their team of dynamic consultants. Key Responsibilities may 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 client 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 technology evaluation and selection efforts.

Basic Qualifications:
» Minimum of 2 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 HP EVA or Storageworks) including administration and/or architecture.
» Minimum of 2 years of experience in storage, backup, recovery, and/or data management.
» Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree

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/Sun/IBM etc.) and Operating Systems (Windows/Unix/Linux)

» Some combination of the following skills:
o Designing/deploying Information Management Lifecycle solutions
o Data center (including application and data) migration/consolidation.
o Datacenter/Server/Network Operational Components (Monitoring, Management, etc.)
o IT1L concepts
o Application/Database rationalization design/implementation
0 Asset Management (Experience with tools/process)
» Planning future storage capacity
» Implementing disaster recovery processes and procedures
» Maintaining problem tracking and resolution at a detailed level for service requests
» Performance tuning of Servers and related systems
» Writing scripts for automation of tasks
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