Product Block and Data Protection Engineer

Product Block and Data Protection Engineer
Contract Duration 6+ months
Pay rate up to $65/hr

Job Duties:
Your Impact
Our Client's team of engineers builds solutions for the most complex problems.
We develop cutting-edge systems and processes that form the core of our key business and enable transactions to move in milliseconds.
We provide real-time access to critical deal information and crunch billions of data points each day to inform firm-wide market insights and strategies.
Team members have the opportunity to work at the forefront of technology innovation alongside industry leaders and make significant contributions to the field.
The storage engineering team is responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle, including analysis, evaluation, design, testing, integration, and sustained engineering of block storage and data protection products for the firm's enterprise-level storage environment.
How you will fulfill your potential
Ability to operate at a global level, communicating and collaborating with the various teams within storage engineering to derive the best solutions for the firm's enterprise-level storage environment.
Driving storage vendors around product improvement and delivery, as part of the firm's established product development life cycle process, is a crucial part of this role.
Ability to work with the storage development team, in the creation of development requirements that will lead to an uplift in the areas of automation, performance management as well as inventory management of the firm's enterprise-level storage environment
Enable cloud journey for our business partners by understanding their storage requirements and providing appropriate solutions in both external and internal cloud.

Skills:
Basic Qualifications
Currently working within an enterprise-level storage environment
Experienced in Pure Storage FlashArray block storage products and/or in Rubrik r6000 series data protection products
Experienced in Brocade G series fabric switch products
Capability to follow and deliver Product Development Life cycle-type documentation as part of the product evaluation and certification process
Competent in Windows, Linux/UNIX-like operating systems, I/O and network stack tuning and performance profiling
An understanding of how to deliver reliable services out of unreliable components
Familiar with DevOps tools and version control systems (SVN, GitLab)
Familiar with SRE principles such as user journeys, SLI/SLO, and synthetic probers
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills
Ability to adapt to new technologies

Preferred Qualifications
Experience with engineering and operating a hybrid cloud delivery model with focus on data coherency between on-prem and off-prem components.
Proficiency with PowerShell, Python, Bash, or other scripting languages with a focus on testing and sound SDLC practices.
Familiarity with hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, and Azure)
Familiarity with hypervisors (ESX)
Beneficial, but not required, experience in block storage (Dell, Hitachi), file (Netapp, Dell Unity), and/or backup solutions (Networker, DataDomain).
Familiarity with Elastic Search and Kibana

Education:
Bachelor's Degree required

Benefits:
Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
401k Retirement Fund

About The Company:
Our client is a leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm, headquartered in New York, with offices in all major financial centers around the world. With the belief that progress is everyone’s business, they commit their people, capital, and ideas to help their clients, shareholders, and the communities they serve to grow.
Diversity is essential to our client’s mission as a firm: it lets them remain at the edge of innovation, respond to the needs of their clients, and ensure that their people can work at their maximum potential.
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