Storage Engineer

Job Title: Storage Engineer Location: Bay Area, California (Hybrid)

Must Have:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience
• Hands-on experience with Nimble storage and Cohesity platforms (deployment, configuration, and ongoing support)
• Solid understanding of networking concepts related to storage infrastructure (e.g., VLANs, routing, iSCSI, and overall data center connectivity)
• Ability to troubleshoot performance and connectivity issues across storage and network layers
• Experience working in enterprise or data center environments

Storage Systems:

Experience with SAN (Storage Area Networks), NAS (Network Attached Storage), and DAS (Direct Attached Storage).

Storage Protocols:

Knowledge of Fiber Channel (FC), iSCSI, NFS, CIFS/SMB, and Object Storage (S3).

Storage Hardware & Vendors:

Hands-on experience with technologies from vendors like NetApp, Dell EMC, Cohesity, HPE, etc.

Cloud Storage:

Understanding of AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, and hybrid cloud storage integration. * A plus*

Storage Virtualization:

Experience with VMware vSAN, IBM SVC, or other virtualization solutions. *A MUST*

Storage Performance Tuning:

Understanding of RAID levels, SSD/HDD performance differences, IOPS, latency, and throughput optimization.

Capacity Planning & Monitoring:

Familiarity with tools like Splunk, or vendor-specific monitoring solutions.

Data Security:

Knowledge of encryption (at rest/in transit), access control, and storage security best practices.

Regulatory Compliance:

Familiarity with HIPAA, GDPR, PCI-DSS, and other data protection standards.

Troubleshooting:

Ability to diagnose storage performance issues and system failures.

Collaboration:

Experience working with DevOps, Networking, and Security teams to design and implement storage solutions.

Project Management:

• Participation in storage migrations, upgrades, or disaster recovery planning