Position Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer to support a large-scale enterprise storage and data platform migration. This individual will play a key role in migrating approximately 16 PB of data from an existing Dell Isilon storage environment to a new enterprise storage platform, followed by a transition of the data platform to Hammerspace.
This role will be highly focused on the execution, monitoring, troubleshooting, and validation of large-scale data migrations. Much of the migration activity will occur during off-hours and scheduled maintenance windows, requiring the engineer to provide on-call support and respond quickly to issues that arise during active data transfers.
The ideal candidate will have strong enterprise storage experience, hands-on experience with large-scale data migrations, and the ability to independently troubleshoot storage, networking, performance, and data-transfer issues in real time.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the migration of approximately 16 PB of enterprise data from Dell Isilon to the new storage environment.
- Execute, monitor, and troubleshoot large-scale data transfers during scheduled migration windows.
- Support the subsequent transition of the data platform to Hammerspace.
- Monitor migration performance, throughput, capacity, errors, and overall transfer health.
- Troubleshoot failed, stalled, or degraded data transfers and resolve issues in real time.
- Investigate storage, file system, permissions, connectivity, networking, and performance-related issues impacting migration activities.
- Validate migrated data and help ensure data integrity throughout the migration process.
- Coordinate with storage, infrastructure, networking, application, vendor, and project teams during migration activities.
- Participate in after-hours and on-call coverage during scheduled migration events.
- Document migration activities, issues, resolutions, and operational procedures.
- Assist with migration planning, sequencing, testing, cutover activities, and post-migration validation.
Required Qualifications:
- Strong experience supporting enterprise storage environments.
- Hands-on experience with Dell Isilon and/or Dell PowerScale.
- Experience executing or supporting large-scale data migrations.
- Strong understanding of enterprise NAS and file-based storage technologies.
- Experience troubleshooting high-volume data transfers and storage performance issues.
- Understanding of file systems, permissions, networking, storage protocols, and data integrity concepts.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues independently during production migration windows.
- Comfortable working scheduled evening, overnight, weekend, and on-call migration windows as required.
- Strong communication and documentation skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Hammerspace or similar data orchestration/data management platforms.
- Experience withPure Storage enterprise storage solutions.
- Experience migrating petabyte-scale datasets.
- Experience working in complex enterprise infrastructure environments.
- Knowledge of NFS, SMB/CIFS, NAS, DNS, networking, and identity/permissions as they relate to enterprise storage.
- Experience with migration automation, scripting, monitoring, or data-transfer utilities.