firstPRO is looking for an experienced Solutions Engineer for our client, who has a strong foothold in the computer industry. The ideal candidate will live within a commutable distance to our clients’ home offices in Fort Washington area and be willing to travel to sites within a 90–120-minute radius of the home office on occasion. The position will be remote 75-90% of the time. This employee will deliver engagements to implement their private and hybrid cloud data center environments utilizing servers, storage, virtualization, orchestration/ automation, high-availability, backup, and disaster recovery systems. This is a 3–6-month contract position.

Responsibilities:

• Implement, troubleshoot, and support servers, storage, virtualization, orchestration/automation, high-availability, backup, and disaster recovery technologies
• Implement, troubleshoot, and support iSCSI, fibre channel, and FCoE fabrics
• Perform data migration and migration planning services
• Provide data center performance and capacity analysis
• Perform storage replication, backup, and DR tests and POCs using native and 3rd party tools.
• Deliver customer training and knowledge transfer
• Create Service Standards in design, documentation, configuration, and implementation
• Communicate regularly with the Service Delivery Manager on client satisfaction and review client initiatives
• Provide accurate and on-time updates to team members, project managers, and management team
• Continue to stay current in all aspects of the solutions within your area of expertise
• Maintain required vendor certifications and continue to grow technical skill set

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years hands-on experience with Dell Backup and Recovery Technologies (such as Avamar, Data Domain)
• Minimum 5 years hands-on experience implementing and managing Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) (such as CISCO, Dell, Nutanix)
• Minimum 5 years hands-on experience with Dell SAN/NAS (such as Unity, VNX, VMAX)
• Minimum 5 years hands-on experience with Fibre Switching
• Advanced experience with CISCO UCS
• Experience in deployment and troubleshooting datacenter technology-related issues through data collection and analysis
• Experience in the deployment and troubleshooting of Windows and Linux environments
• Experience deploying cloud solutions such as AWS and Azure is a plus.