Storage Performance engineer (ONSITE ENGLEWOOD, CO)

Storage Performance engineer (ONSITE ENGLEWOOD, CO)

** The pay rate is between $75 - $80 per hour **

Storage Test Engineer will be the main will be responsible for working closely with team members and, when warranted, Product Managers and other internal stakeholders in reviewing and creating content from architectural guides to performance debriefs for our most customers and channel partners. The engineer will also set up test environments and run performance benchmarks using IO workload generator Tools to identify and simulate most customer reference workloads. And also develop detailed technical documents providing low-level technical and high-level summarized performance analyses of our products to our sales, systems engineers, partners, and customers. Therefore, the candidate should possess professional experience in deploying, evaluating, or testing storage solutions, features (including Dedupe, Compression, NVMeOF mode, etc.), and automation scripting.

The preferred candidate will have:

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering/ Computer Science or equivalent
• 10+ years of experience with performance validation of hardware including functionality with software and drivers in an enterprise environment with varying operating systems
• 10+ years of hands-on experience or at an expert level with any one of the Hitachi/Pure/EMC/NetApp storage products in block and file services.
• 10+ years of experience with scripting languages (Python/Perl/Shell/etc.)
• Experience with modern storage technology devices, rotational and solid state, as well as a variety of interface standards (SATA, SAS, NVMe).
• Able to work in a global team environment
• Expert level understanding of HDD, SSD and storage platform design and architecture.
• Expert knowledge on storage features like deduplication, compression, snapshot, and replication etc., in addition to storage related protocols such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, TCP/IP, etc., and associated performance tuning.
• Knowledge of performance analysis of storage solutions and how it relates to the hosts
• Hand on expertise with different benchmarking tools like Vdbench, FIO, IOmeter, IOzone etc.
• Excellent writing and documentation skills in creating test procedures, workflows, diagrams, and customer facing white papers.
• Great verbal communications (including presentations and providing technical training), and participation in industry’s storage communities.
• A team player and fast technology adoption.
• Great experience dealing with customer escalations and talking to customers on their issues

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Thanks & Regards,

Jaish Watwani

Xoriant Corporation.